Former husband of blogger Valeria Chekalina, also known as ler_chek, Artyom Chekalin, accused of carrying out foreign-exchange transactions to transfer funds to non-resident accounts using falsified documents, attends a verdict hearing at the Gagarinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. The court sentenced Chekalin to seven years in a general-regime penal colony and fined him 194.5 million rubles.
- Package: Russia Blogger Tax Evasion Trial
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 13.04.2026
- Date published: 13.04.2026
- Author: Vladimir Astapkovich
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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- Job-ID: 97d8760251ab299c