Artema Chekalina
criminal
Artem Chekalin is described in the coverage as the former husband of blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) and a business partner with whom she had no romantic relationship. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined over 194 million rubles for allegedly laundering more than 250 million rubles abroad using falsified documents, a case also involving his former partner Roman Vishnyak. His wife's public statements and legal representatives have argued that the punishment is excessive given her terminal illness and their shared children.