A Moscow court has sentenced Artyom Chekalin, the former husband of blogger Valeriya Chekalina — known online as Lerchek — to seven years in a general-regime penal colony. The court found him guilty of conducting currency transactions to transfer funds to non-resident accounts using fraudulent documents.
The former husband of blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) Artema Chekalin was sentenced to seven years in a colony in a case of withdrawal from Russia...
Artem Chekalin, a well-known blogger, was sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment and a fine of 194.5 million roubles, and found guilty of money-laundering, and the decision of the Gagarin District Court of Moscow was reported by SHOT.