Olga Arkharova
Olga Arkharova is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:
- the end of imprisonment is recorded as December 29, 2025.
Olga Arkharova, born 1981, Moscow. Charges: Article 163 part 3 item b, Russian Criminal Code (Large-scale extortion with the view to obtain property); “Aleksandra Baiazitova and Olga Arkharova's case”. Sentence (November 27, 2023): 4 years and 6 months' imprisinment in a general regime colony.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Journalists
Sentence
4 years 6 months
4 years and 6 months' imprisinment in a general regime colony
Upheld August 28, 2024
Charges
- Article 163 part 3 item b, Russian Criminal Code — Large-scale extortion with the view to obtain property
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she was involved in extorting 1.2 million rubles from the vice-president of Promsvyazbank in exchange for the extension of the "block on negativity" in the telegram channel of Alexandra Bayazitova.
Latest event
December 29, 2025 — persecution ends
Timeline
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years 6 months
· Persecution begins
Aleksandra Baiazitova and Olga Arkharova's case
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Aleksandra Baiazitova and Olga Arkharova's case
Other defendants in the case
- Aleksandra Baiazitova — Imprisoned, 5 years
Thematic group: The case of "blocks from negativity"; The case of extorting the vice president of Promsvyazbank
Details and sources
Full summary
Media Manager. In August 2022, she was sent to custody in the case of extortion from the vice-president of Promstroybank. On November 27th 2023, Arkharova was sentenced to four and a half years in a general regime colony. On 29th of December 2025, she was released on parole.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 163 part 3 item b, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.