According to case documents reviewed on March 20, lawyers Alisa Volkhova and Olga Goltseva—who are accused of embezzling funds from blogger Alexandra Mitroshina—threatened her with tax violations for refusing cooperation and demanded financial settlements. The materials reveal the pair systematically misled Mitroshina by fabricating urgent legal issues requiring immediate payment to avoid severe consequences.
Mitroshina and her husband Timur Koshkarov initially sought assistance from new lawyers following a meeting where they intended to investigate Volkhova and Goltseva’s activities. However, the lawyers immediately escalated tensions with Koshkarov, subsequently initiating repeated video conferences to pressure Mitroshina into transferring funds for purported legal resolutions. The case file details how these tactics were used to extract money through fabricated criminal charges, including falsely claiming the initiation of a money laundering investigation that was later resolved via payments from Mitroshina herself.
The bloggers’ deception scheme involved consistently misrepresenting non-existent problems as critical legal threats, leveraging misplaced trust to compel financial transactions. Mitroshina’s legal troubles intensified when she was detained on March 7, 2025, at Sochi airport after returning from Dubai, charged with money laundering—a situation compounded by her prior residence in the United Arab Emirates since 2022 and a 2021 payment for an elite Moscow apartment. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow recently extended her house arrest until May 1, 2026, following partial guilty pleas to laundering 127 million rubles.
