The Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info share the details of the case against the blogger Andrey Sidoropulowho is wanted by the federal authorities.
In 2022, a criminal case was launched against blogger Andrei Sidoropulo.
The reason is well-known and somewhat ordinary – he was selling online courses that helped him earn money quickly. Many people bought the courses. A PR project by Sidoropulo, with the help of another well-known person, turned out to be a fraud. As a result, dozens of victims reported a total loss of about 200 million rubles, leading to the initiation of a criminal case.
According to a source from Rucriminal.info, the investigation believes that the blogger did not actually provide the services he promised, but instead took money for information that was already publicly available. The statements from numerous victims directly confirm this.
The investigation is also looking to establish the involvement of another blogger in this case – Mikhail Litvin. In reality, Sidoropulo is a project managed by Litvin. Litvin initially promoted Sidoropulo to launch this project, and then these courses appeared. The investigation is particularly interested in Litvin's alleged 50 percent share of the earnings from Sidoropulo. This implies that the money was not paid for PR and advertising, but was shared as accomplices, essentially in half.
To protect Sidoropulo and Litvin, they devised a complicated scheme involving the FSB in the Krasnodar Territory. They believed this scheme would effectively sabotage the case and protect them. In his Krasnodar Territory residence, where Sidoropulo was under travel restrictions, he, with Litvin's connections, made contact with someone who claimed to personally know the investigator handling his criminal case in Moscow. It seems this individual found a way to Sidoropulo and offered to “resolve the issue” for a fee. The blogger agreed, delivered the money to the intermediary, and then, with FSB officers from the Krasnodar Territory, apprehended this person. This led to the initiation of a bribery case. The FSB officers in the Krasnodar Territory not only solved the bribery case but also damaged the reputation of the Moscow investigator. Sidoropulo repeatedly delayed appearing in Moscow for interrogation in the hope of sabotaging the case and demonstrating the investigation's bias. However, the Moscow investigation was prepared and closely monitored the situation. As a result, the case was transferred to the Main Investigative Directorate of Moscow, and Sidoropulo was put on the wanted list. We are monitoring the situation.
