Global Courant 2023-04-27 18:54:40
A wealthy Russian model has been detained by Putin’s customs authorities in Russia, who, like their European rivals, are waging a sweeping anti-tax evasion campaign to replenish finances devastated by the bloody war they are waging.
Millionaire Elena Blinovskaya, 41, was arrested as part of a $10 million tax evasion that she used to fund a makeshift money laundering scheme.
She was on her way to the airport in her Mercedes limousine when she was stopped by the police, who according to the media have launched a fiscal operation against social media figures for failing to pay taxes.
Blinovskaya, who has more than 5.3 million followers as part of her ‘wellness and personal development’ teachings, was previously just a provincial accountant.
But after winning a local Miss Russia title in 2016, she became popular and expanded her activity on the network.
The married woman, mother of four, could now face up to seven years in prison, as she made no secret of her extravagant lifestyle of big parties and spending millions of dollars.
On her 40th birthday party, social networks wrote that she had spent more than 1.2 million dollars.
In a recently released video at the Krasnaya Gorka border crossing with Belarus, the woman appeared to be attempting to leave by plane to Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
The Russian investigative authorities announced: “Elena Blinovskaya was stopped while trying to leave the borders of the Russian Federation with the car she had rented.”
“At the same time she had plane tickets to another country.”
The charges against her are related to the money earned from the events she called “transformative games” and the “marathons” she held for her 300,000 followers.
She is also accused of concealing income and is reportedly being questioned by authorities.
In her network guidelines, Blinovskaya teaches followers: “You are here because your dreams brought you, beware magicians.”
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