Russian police arrest 2 women, high -ranking members of the Finiko Crypto Pyramid -

The law enforcement authorities in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan have made new arrests in connection with the crypto ponzi scheme Finiko. Two women who were arrested this week are said to have lured millions of dollars into the pyramid. The now collapsed FINKO attracted investors from a number of countries in the post -Soviet area and around the world, including Germany and the USA

female influencers arrested against FINKO in the event of ongoing investigations

The police in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, has arrested two women because of their participation in the huge cryptopyramid Finiko, Realnoe Vremya. href = "https://realnoevremya.ru/224823-po-finiko-zaderzhany-dina-gabdullina-i-liliya-nurieva" rel = "noopener"> reported . Lilia Nurieva, founder of a real estate agency who joined the Ponzi program, and Dina Gabdullina, a high-ranking finico leadership, were taken into custody after the investigators had invited them to be heard at the beginning of this week.

The two prisoners allegedly temporarily tempted numerous investors to send over $ 10 million to fraud through multi-level marketing, for which Nurieva reached the status of a so-called "10th star" in the financial pyramid, while Gabdullina received the position of the vice. Both were charged as members of a group of organized crime, which worked between December 1, 2018 and July 28, 2021, to have been involved in a large -scale fraud.

Your concern follows the arrest from finiko founder kirill doronin, one Instagram influencer, who has been connected to other Ponzi programs in the past, and Ilgiz Shakirov, a businessman from Kazan, who also rose to the Vice President after the registration of at least 100,000 investors. The Russian authorities also exhibited international arrest warrants against three from Doronin's employees - Marat and Edward Sabirov and Zygmunt Zygmuntovich.

On Thursday, the Vakhitovsky Court of Kazan decided Gabdullina and Nurieva until November 7th, although the defense of the 31-year-old Gabdullina State for health around house arrest and only admitted their guilt, while they offered the law enforcement authorities their support in the ongoing investigation.

Russia's Ministry of the Interior takes over investigations against FINKO

In the meantime, the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation has announced that the officially recognized damage to finiko investors exceeds 1 billion rubles (almost $ 14 million). Due to the extent of the fraud, the Federal Department has taken over the criminal investigation in the case. The first estimates showed a loss of 250 million rubles (almost 3.5 million US dollars).

In the initial phase of the investigation, judicial authorities in Tatarstan had recognized 80 victims of the crypto ponzi system. According to the ministry, the number of applications of cheated investors is already 3,300. In addition to Russian citizens, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the United States and other countries are also located in addition to Russian citizens.

according to a current from blockchain forensics company company Chainalysis has the Finiko, based in Russia, a non-existent company, Bitcoin worth more than $ 1.5 billion between December 2019 and August 2021 received returns of up to $ 30%. The cryptopyramid has collapsed this summer.

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