
The Meshchansky Court of Moscow rendered a verdict in the case of tax evasion
The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced business coach Dmitry Portnyagin to five years in prison for tax evasion of more than 124 million rubles and their legalization.
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The business coach was accused of tax evasion in the period from 2018 to 2020 in the amount of more than 124 million rubles.
The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced business coach Dmitry Portnyagin to five years in prison. TASS reports this.
The defendant was found guilty of tax evasion in the amount of more than 124 million rubles. A convoy took him into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced and took him to a pre-trial detention center.
The court gave him the punishment requested by the prosecutor. According to investigators, the business coach did not pay taxes in the period from 2018 to 2020; he legalized these funds by transferring them to third party accounts.
Also accused in the case is the blogger’s wife, Ekaterina, for whom they asked for seven and a half years. The prosecutor asks the third person involved in the case, Alexey Nikolaev, to be sentenced to two years.

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