The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow placed business coach Dmitry Portnyagin under house arrest in a tax evasion case. This was reported by the joint press service of the capital's courts.
Portnyagin is accused of tax evasion (Part 2 of Article 198 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (clause “b” of Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code). A preventive measure was chosen for him until June 10. According to investigators, from 2018 to 2020, Portnyagin and his wife evaded paying taxes in the amount of more than 124 million rubles — of this amount, they transferred 91 million to the accounts of third companies.
The criminal prosecution of the blogger became known on April 11, when the Investigative Committee published a corresponding press release. The next day, as the Mash telegram channel wrote, Portnyagin was detained in the Rostov region. On April 14, he was charged in the case.
On the day the news about the criminal prosecution appeared, Portnyagin published a post on his Instagram — as he himself claimed, from the “North Military District zone.” The short video was filmed against the backdrop of two machine guns and a flag depicting Jesus Christ. In the video, the business coach spoke about his criminal case, adding that he “isn’t running away anywhere.”
Dmitry Portnyagin is the founder of the closed club for entrepreneurs Club 500 and the author of the book “Transformer. How to create your own business and start making money.» Almost one and a half million people are subscribed to his YouTube channel. He has the same number of followers on Instagram.