The Federal Tax Service denied information about the check in relation to Ivan Urgant – Kommersant

The Federal Tax Service is not conducting an audit against TV presenter Ivan Urgant, reported TASS department press office.

“Currently, the Federal Tax Service of Russia is not carrying out verification activities in relation to Urgant Ivan Andreevich,” the department replied to the agency’s request.

Earlier today, August 8, Telegram channel “Image of the Future” claimed that the Federal Tax Service was checking Mr. Urgant. The publication of the channel says that the TV presenter hides from the tax authorities all the fees that he receives in cash for holding ceremonial events abroad. He keeps these funds in an account in a Finnish bank, according to the Telegram channel.

On February 25, 2022, Ivan Urgant spoke out against military operations in Ukraine. At the same time, information appeared about his dismissal from Channel One and his departure from Russia. Later “Channel One” refuted this information. In January, Mr. Urgant asked be recognized as a foreign agent.

This year, several popular bloggers were detained for tax evasion. In March, blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) was charged with tax evasion worth 311 million rubles, and her husband Artem Chekalin was charged with complicity. They were also charged with money laundering in the amount of more than 130 million rubles. elected a measure of restraint in the form of a ban on certain actions.

In April, the founder of the Marathon of Wishes, Elena Blinovskaya, was detained while trying to cross the border of the Russian Federation. She is accused of tax evasion for 918 million rubles. She was placed under house arrest. In May, her husband Alexei presented charge under Part 5 of Art. 33, part 2 of Art. 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (complicity in tax evasion) and paragraph “b” part 4 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (money laundering).

Erdni Kagaltynov