Blinovskaya did not admit guilt during the review of the sentence

Brief retelling from RIA II

Elena Blinovskaya was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for money laundering and illegal circulation of means of payment.

Blinovskaya did not admit guilt in the crimes charged against her during the cassation review of the sentence.

Blinovskaya's defense intends to appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. “Marathon Queen” blogger Elena Blinovskaya, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for money laundering and illegal circulation of means of payment, during the cassation review of the sentence did not admit guilt in the crimes charged against her, follows from court documents available to RIA Novosti.

“The convicted Blinovskaya E.O. did not admit guilt in court,” the court materials say.

The lawyers in the complaint insisted on overturning Blinovskaya’s sentence, citing, among other things, the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution under the article on tax evasion even before the case reached the court of first instance. Based on this article, the Savyolovsky Court of Moscow found the blogger guilty in March 2025, but released her from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The cassation court found the defense's argument untenable.

As follows from the documents, even at the stage of consideration of the case on the merits, the blogger’s lawyer drew attention to the fact that the statute of limitations under the article on non-payment of taxes had expired, but did not ask for the case to be dismissed in this part, and Blinovskaya did not admit guilt.

“The convicted Blinovskaya did not admit guilt in court, did not agree with the prosecution, and did not make a motion to terminate the criminal case on non-rehabilitative grounds (the statute of limitations had expired - ed.). Under such circumstances, the court lawfully continued to consider the criminal case in the general manner, passed a guilty verdict with the imposition of a sentence on Blinovskaya, from serving which she was released due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution,” the document says.

In January 2025, during a trial court hearing, the blogger fully admitted her guilt.

In 2025, the Savelovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Blinovskaya to five years in prison. She was found guilty under articles of money laundering, illegal circulation of means of payment and tax evasion on an especially large scale - under this article she was released from liability due to the statute of limitations. The court also recovered the property seized in the case as state income.

Later, the Moscow City Court reduced the term to 4.5 years. The Court of Cassation in July this year upheld the verdict. The defense announced its intention to appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court.

As stated in the documents, Blinovskaya evaded paying taxes in the amount of more than 906 million rubles, and the amount of legalized funds amounted to more than 716 million rubles.