The Savyolovsky District Court in Moscow found lawyer Alisa Volkova and tax attorney Olga Goltseva guilty of large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), sentencing each to four years in a general-regime penal colony, Kommersant reported. Both were taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was read.
The court also upheld two civil suits filed by Mitroshina, ordering the defendants to pay about 41 million rubles in damages. Volkova was additionally barred from practicing law for three years.
According to the prosecution, in 2023, after a tax evasion case was opened against Mitroshina, Goltseva and Volkova tricked the blogger into handing over money. The women claimed the funds would be used to remove Mitroshina's data from Interpol and presidential administration blacklists, and also promised to help her obtain a Vanuatu passport. Mitroshina said she transferred more than 68 million rubles to the lawyers in 2024; investigators estimated the stolen amount at 41 million rubles.
Mitroshina first told investigators about the alleged theft during questioning in her own money-laundering case. Investigators believed the blogger had evaded 127 million rubles in taxes and tried to launder 115 million rubles by buying luxury housing. In June, a court found her guilty and sentenced her to three years suspended, confiscating property worth 115 million rubles. The prosecution appealed that verdict, calling it too lenient.