The key facts

  • The teenager posed as an adult and blackmailed his online acquaintance from January to June 2025
  • The total amount of money received was 575,640 rubles
  • The Istra City Court imposed three years suspended with a four-year probation period and ordered the stolen money to be returned

The blackmail scheme and the final amount

In the Moscow region, a court has sentenced a 17-year-old resident of the settlement of Glebovsky who extorted money from an acquaintance he met online. The case was reported by the outlet mk.ru, with details provided by Gazeta.Ru.

How the events unfolded

In January 2025, the schoolboy met a man in a Telegram dating chat, presenting himself as an adult. After exchanging intimate messages, the teenager called his interlocutor and demanded money, threatening to tell the man's colleagues and relatives about the correspondence. He also threatened to set fire to the front door of the apartment where the man lives with his mother and to beat them both.

The court's verdict

The frightened man first transferred 4,000 rubles, but the blackmail did not stop: from January to June 2025, the teenager received a total of 575,640 rubles. When the victim turned to the police, the extortionist was detained. The Istra City Court sentenced him to three years of suspended imprisonment with a four-year probation period and ordered him to return the stolen money. The publication, citing an earlier report, also mentions a similar case in the Irkutsk region, where a seventh-grader who extorted money from a peer was placed in a pre-trial detention center — the two cases are connected only by the type of crime; their circumstances differ.