Courier who stole money from Dolina said she was "just completing an order"

Angela Tsyrulnikova, an employee of the Moscow library, accused of stealing money from singer Larisa Dolina, claimed in court that she did not suspect the contents of the package given to her by the victim, because she was misled and used blindly. One of the participants in the trial told TASS about this on November 22.

"Tsyrulnikova did not deny that she had taken the package from Dolina and handed it over to the customer. However, she claims that she did not know that the money was in the package and for what exactly and to whom she was transferring it," the agency's interlocutor shared the details.

It is clarified that, according to the girl, she was deceived, forced to fulfill the assignment without revealing the true essence of the matter, and she acted as an ordinary courier.

Return mechanism: the court returned the apartment seized by fraudsters to the Valley

But the singer may have to compensate the customer for her expenses.

Dolina lost her savings in August 2024 due to phone scams and sold the apartment at their request. From April to June, the attackers in Ukraine deceived the singer. The scammers forced the Valley to transfer funds. After the actress realized that she had become a victim of deception, she contacted law enforcement agencies.

In March of this year, the Khamovnichesky district court of the capital ruled in favor of Dolina on the counterclaims of the singer and Lurie. As a result, the court recovered more than 69 million rubles in favor of the singer in the framework of the criminal case.

Later, on September 8, it became known that Lurie's appeal had been dismissed. At the same time, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision on the ownership of the disputed apartment for Dolina, her daughter and granddaughter.

On October 27, Lurie appealed the decision to invalidate the purchase and sale of the artist's real estate to the Court of Cassation. On November 19, an informed source told Izvestia that the Balashikha City Court of the Moscow region refused to protect the defendants in returning the criminal case of fraud involving the singer Dolina's apartment to the prosecutor's office.