Blogger Huseyn Hasanov sentenced in absentia to four years in a penal colony

Blogger Huseyn Hasanov sentenced in absentia to four years in a penal colony

As Ostorozhno, Novosti writes from the courtroom of Moscow’s Presnensky Court, Hasanov was also fined 1 million rubles and banned from publishing materials on the internet for 2 years. His Moscow City apartments worth 46 million rubles were confiscated. The blogger has been arrested in absentia; he himself claimed that he had “resolved all tax issues” back in 2024.

According to investigators, Hasanov failed to pay more than 170 million rubles in taxes while acting as an individual entrepreneur. To legalize the unpaid taxes, he carried out several financial operations and sham real estate sale deals. Thus, when one apartment was sold, the purchase agreement listed the apartment price as 60 million rubles, but cookies were placed in the safe-deposit box instead of money.

After his arrest in absentia, Hasanov accused Safe Internet League head Yekaterina Mizulina of spreading defamatory information about his case; she called him a “scammer.” He promised to sue Mizulina and urged his fans to file mass complaints against her so that her Telegram channel would be blocked.