Russia (bbabo.net), - 18 people were detained in Kabardino-Balkaria, who are suspected of creating a financial pyramid back in 2020.
The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, said that the swindlers specialized in stealing money under the guise of investment activities. They posted ads on the Internet about investments in profitable business projects. Depositors were promised income in the amount of almost one hundred percent of the deposit amount. But, as in every pyramid scheme, initially payments were made from funds received from new customers, and then stopped. Fraudsters managed to deceive over a thousand people for 915 million rubles.
Operatives of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs detained 18 people, two are wanted. Five of the detainees are the organizers of a criminal scheme.
It is known that the two defendants used the stolen money to purchase a foreign-made heavy-duty vehicle with a trailer worth more than nine million rubles. This technique was seized in order to satisfy the claims of the victims in a criminal case.
In order to legalize money obtained by criminal means, in November 2020, one of the defendants purchased a land a residential building from a resident of the Moscow Region for 33 million rubles. And then he resold it to a third party for 38.5 million rubles. He was also paid 7.5 million rubles, allegedly spent by him on improvements, reconstruction, repair and improvement of the household. This money has also been seized. In addition, 21 million rubles and 20 thousand US dollars, 17 cars worth 32 million rubles, 139 pieces of jewelry worth 9.7 million rubles were seized from the accomplices to compensate for the damage caused.
Irina Volk said that 23 forensic examinations were carried out - 11 computer, 6 merchandise, 2 handwriting, 2 portrait, phonoscopic and psychological-linguistic. A financial and analytical forensic examination and a forensic accounting examination were appointed.
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