The President of Russia signed an amnesty order for blogger Valeria Chekalina. She applied for clemency on November 12.
"Lakhon Valeria Valeria Chekalina, born in 1992, frees her from the sentence imposed on July 31, 2026 by the Gagarinsky District Court in Moscow, erasing her criminal record. ".
- written in the document.
At the end of July, the Gagrinsky court in Moscow sentenced the blogger to five years of probation and a fine of 763.5 million rubles in the case of illegal currency transactions.
The investigation found that since September 2021, Valeria and Artem Cheklin sold fitness marathons, and then withdrew more than 251 million rubles to accounts in the United Arab Emirates, providing the bank with documents with false information.