Mass layoffs, withdrawal of money abroad: ex-girlfriend in court handed over Blinovskaya

Blogger Elena Blinovskaya planned to withdraw funds from the sale of her "Marathons of Desires" abroad, return the money back to She did not plan Russia. This was stated during the interrogation in the Salelovsky court of Moscow by the ex-curator and former girlfriend of the "marathon runner" Lilia Orlenko.

"As follows from the correspondence I submitted with Blinovskaya and, as I understood, Elena wants to open accounts and withdraw funds there (abroad), including to Dubai. And she wasn't going to take it back from there," the former TASS employee quotes.

It is also clarified that, according to the correspondence attached to the case, Orlenko, even before the quarrel with Blinovskaya in 2022, offered to formalize partnerships in the "50/50" format, with "transparent accounts." Blinovskaya replied that she would think about it.

In addition, according to Orlenko, the blogger planned to fire employees of all her companies.

"Your task now is to fire employees competently and without fuss, and leave only those who are ready for turbulence," Blinovskaya's correspondence with the former curator says.

Also, through correspondence, the authenticity of which Orlenko confirmed in court, the dismissal of employees who are on forced leave was discussed.

Orlenko said that at the beginning of her work in the company she received 200 thousand rubles a month. However, in the last six months her salary has reached 4 million rubles.

At the same time, she stressed that her salary was transferred from accounts of different companies, which did not suit her and she "repeatedly told this to the employer."

Blinovskaya's ex-girlfriend named the amount of monthly expenses of the blogger's main company, it ranged from 5 to 18 million rubles. This amount included bloggers' fees, household expenses, rental of premises, as well as salaries for company employees.

"I'm tired of the influx of incoming tasks, that aggression and manipulation, I just burned out," Orlenko explained the reason for the breakup of relations with the Blinovskaya family.

As EADaily reported, in April last year Blinovskaya and her rented car were detained at the border of Russia with Belarus. The blogger tried to leave the country. A criminal case was opened against her on tax evasion on an especially large scale and on charges of legalizing money acquired by criminal means. Subsequently, a criminal case was opened on the commission of illegal turnover of payment funds.

According to the investigation, Blinovskaya, through the mediation of her spouse, evaded paying taxes in the amount of 918 million rubles. Further, they legalized part of these funds in the amount of 706 million rubles.

According to court documents, since 2019, all firms that participated in the blogger's earnings scheme have received income in the amount of 5.05 billion rubles.

In mid-August of this year, Blinovskaya, on her own from the pre-trial detention center, sent a statement to the court declaring herself bankrupt.

At the same time, she filed a lawsuit from the court against Beget LLC, which sells marathons created by her for 5 thousand instead of 110 thousand rubles. So far, the Moscow City Court has returned the claim, since the application is outside its jurisdiction.

In early October, the court lifted the arrest from Blinovskaya's accounts. According to the court's decision, the total amount of funds from which the arrest was lifted is about 80 million rubles. 12 accounts of Blinovskaya and her spouse in Russian banks were unblocked. At the same time, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow District refused Blinovskaya to reduce the amount of the fine to the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service). The total amount of the fine is still more than 1.4 billion rubles.