Blinovskaya Elena Olegovna

Blinovskaya Elena Olegovna

Biography

2019-2021: Earnings of 4 billion rubles from the sale of marathons

At the end of September 2024, it became known that blogger Elena Blinovskaya, accused of tax evasion on an especially large scale, earned more than 4 billion rubles from marathon sales. This money, according to the published materials, was received from 2019 to 2021.

According to Blinovskaya herself, her "Wish Marathons" help to accurately formulate their aspirations and goals and bring them to life. Such marathons usually last four weeks: the first is free, and you have to pay for everything else. As the number of people wishing to quickly become rich and successful increased, the cost of marathons grew, and Blinovskaya's income began to run into tens and hundreds of millions of rubles. She offered a variety of programs - "Purpose," "Become and Get," "Friendship," etc.

As Komsomolskaya Pravda notes, all revenues from marathons and other businesses of Blinovskaya for the specified three-year period exceeded 4.1 billion rubles. These funds were conducted through various legal entities. The parent company allegedly fictitiously sold the rights to sell marathons to numerous organizations, although in fact "all the money still flowed into one pocket."

2023

Seizure of property

In July 2023, a court in Moscow, as part of a criminal case on non-payment by blogger Elena Blinovskaya and her husband of almost 1 billion rubles of taxes, imposed interim measures on her 50 bank accounts and collectible gold coins. In addition, about 100 million rubles in various currencies and 21 real estate objects were arrested.

According to TASS, citing law enforcement agencies, the following were arrested:

• cash in 50 accounts with various banks;
• 46,173,358 rubles;
• dollars USA 292 650 ;
• 123 yuan;
• 5 zao;
• coins with a face value of 10 rubles - 7 pieces;
• coins George the Victorious - 80 pieces;
• coins in individual cases - 12 pieces;
• coins with a face value of 2 rubles;
• coins with a face value of 1 ruble;
• two parking spaces;
• residential and non-residential premises in the Yaroslavl region and in the Moscow region;
• an elite apartment in Moscow.

At the same time, earlier, in the framework of a criminal case against the blogger, the investigation had already imposed interim measures on 136 bank accounts of Blinovskaya and her husband in the capital's banks. The amount of funds seized amounted to hundreds of millions of rubles in various currencies.

By July 18, 2023, Elena Blinovskaya is under house arrest. The blogger was detained on April 27 at a checkpoint in the Smolensk region while trying to leave for Belarus in a rented car. The UK charged the blogger with committing crimes under Part 2 of Art. 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (tax evasion) and Part 4 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (legalization of money on an especially large scale).

Blinovskaya was detained on April 27, 2023 in the Smolensk region while trying to cross the Russian border in a rented car. On June 21, 2023, the court extended the blogger's house arrest for a month and upheld the ban on the use of cellular communications and the Internet. The period of the preliminary investigation in the blogger's case has also been extended until July 26, 2023. At the same time, the blogger's lawyer opposed such a measure, arguing that his client has children who are under stress due to the fact that their mother does not leave the house.^[1]

Seizure of assets worth 64 billion rubles

The blogger and creator of the Marathon of Desires Elena Blinovskaya arrested property totaling 64 billion rubles in a criminal case on tax evasion. This was announced on August 15, 2023 by the lawyer of the accused Natalya Salnikova during a meeting of the public council of the Center for Public Procedures "Business against Corruption."

At the same time, according to her, the Federal Tax Service has not yet released data on the exact amount of damage in the case. The lawyer clarified that the amount of 918 million rubles, which appeared in the charge in the case of Elena Blinovskaya, does not correspond to the assessment of the Federal Tax Service. She noted that the publication of the exact amount of damage will not be for several months. Salnikova added that her client had already paid 55 million rubles from the amount of damage imputed to her.

Blinovskaya is accused of money laundering and tax evasion. According to the investigation, she received a lot of income from the implementation of training courses and training marathons, not wanting to "switch to a general taxation system." By August 15, 2023, the blogger is under house arrest, the term of which is still limited to October 26, 2023. Also involved in the case was her husband Alexei, who was banned by the court from certain actions.

On August 9, 2023, the Presnensky Court Moscow imposed a new arrest in a criminal case on non-payment of taxes on property and accounts of Elena Blinovskaya. So, 12 accounts were arrested, located in,, Tinkoff bank, and Sberbank, VTB Sovcombank Promsvyazbank four cars, a motorcycle, a Harley-Davidson snow and swamp vehicle, a motor boat, a jet ski and seven trailers to cars.

The arrest was also imposed on 54 settlement accounts of companies related to the blogger, namely: Olivia Group LLC, Aquaculture LLC, Rybnaya History LLC, Give a Dream LLC, Nembus LLC, Aquaculture-Khibiny LLC, DOG Octopus LLC, Wind LLC, Sadi Adygea LLC, Almaz LLC, MUFD, Ocean LLC.^[2]

2024

By the end of September 2024, Elena Blinovskaya is in the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 6 "Pechatniki." On September 18, the Moscow City Court rejected the complaint about the extension of the arrest to the blogger

During the court session, it became known that Blinovskaya owns more than 10 plots in Alushta and under, Kostroma but as of September 2024, these objects were arrested. According to News the newspaper "," the Savelovsky District Court Moscow decided to remove the arrest from one of Blinovskaya's apartments: funds in the amount of 90 million rubles should be credited to the tax service. At the same time Lamborghini , the court dismissed the petition to remove the arrest from the Urus car of the defendant: the car was registered to the leasing company, and not personally to it.

source = Telegram channel of Moscow courts

According to the case file, Blinovskaya, through the mediation of her husband, evaded paying taxes in the amount of 906 million rubles, of which 716 million rubles were illegally legalized. According to investigators, the woman for years underestimated the multimillion-dollar income received from the sale of the Marathon of Desires and other online courses.

Blinovskaya partially pleaded guilty to tax evasion, but denied involvement in money legalization and improper circulation of payment funds. According to her version, when she went on maternity leave upon the birth of her youngest child, the business "continued to be run by her team, people whom she trusted a lot."^[3]

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