Can I be held liable?

Question

Freelance

. Hysteria from him is just horror. At the same time, he is a co-owner of several large companies in Russia.

Answer 1

Didn't calculate by ip?
Was there actually a deal? How was the payment? Where were the deadlines?

Answer 2

They didn’t conclude an agreement, which means that the time limits were not officially established anywhere, they can go to hell, so to speak.

Answer 3

usually the conditions for the return of funds are stipulated in the contract (under what conditions how the return is carried out)
if there is no contract, then by itself it remains solely at your discretion.
delayed the deadlines - well, there is nothing particularly criminal in this, well, it happens. Abandoning the project is probably not worth it either. The customer himself chose you and decided to work with you on such terms (without a contract).
Regarding the payment for your labor, I am sure to receive payment for labor - a fair demand, even if someone did not need this work,
you are not selling goods, but labor. you have every right to receive payment for this work, this right is enshrined (Article 37 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, paragraph 3 I quote:
Everyone has the right to work. . . and remuneration for work without any discrimination and not lower than the minimum wage established by federal law).
fraud - (I think up to 10 thousand even no one will talk about this, but I’m not sure) it
’s real, there is no contract, it’s extremely difficult to impute something, you need at least 10 pieces, you can have applications for you. Then there will be consistency in deception so that it somehow looks like a scam, and not just like an unsatisfied client.
non-payment of taxes? - well, if you helped someone once (even for money), this can hardly be called a commercial activity, you need a systemic character, there is a possibility of getting a fine for not formalizing the activity, if you still conduct systematic commercial activities - but here you see I didn’t draw up an agreement, which means that there is no fact of activity, even if I received some transfers (this doesn’t mean anything), again, taxes on income from individuals, you pay there once a year in August (if I don’t confuse), with why does he think at all that you don’t pay taxes, the deadline for paying taxes has not even come for you (this deadline will be only next year) - the man is really some kind of hysterical idiot (I think this is just a stupid schoolboy hiding behind a fake)
bait on the Internet? - what kind of nonsense, but everyone generally doesn’t give a shit (he will still be told that he is an asshole).

Answer 4

Courts also take into account electronic correspondence, even if you do not have a paper contract, yes.
Another thing is whether he wants to spend a bunch of resources to get ridiculous money back.