Larchek asked Putin for forgiveness.
Blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchak), who was sentenced to a suspended sentence in the case of withdrawing money from Russia, appealed to Vladimir Putin for pardon, one of her lawyers, Konstantin Tretyakov, told TASS.
At the end of July, the Gagrinsky District Court in Moscow sentenced Cheklina to five years of probation in the case of withdrawing money from Russia. She was also fined 765 million rubles. In her last word, she asked the court not to impose a fine, as she would not have anything to pay for it.
According to investigators, Larchek and her husband Artem, whom they later divorced, used forged documents to withdraw money from Russia to avoid taxes.
You can read more about the case here.