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Russia - Cars and jewelry confiscated from the organizers of the financial pyramid from the KBR

Russia (bbabo.net), - In Kabardino-Balkaria, 18 defendants in a criminal case on the creation of a criminal scheme in the region were charged with creating a financial pyramid, fraud and money laundering. Investigators and employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Combating Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic managed to detain five alleged organizers and 12 of their accomplices, two people are still wanted. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs Media with reference to the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk.

- According to the investigation, the financial pyramid was created by malefactors in 2020. The accomplices posted ads on the Internet about investments in profitable business projects. Moreover, potential investors were promised income in the amount of almost one hundred percent of the deposit amount. In fact, initially, payments were made at the expense of funds received from new customers, and then stopped. Thus, non-cash funds of almost three thousand citizens were attracted for a total amount of over 915 million rubles, - said Irina Volk.

Dozens of examinations are now being carried out in a criminal case - computer, merchandise, handwriting and others. Financial and analytical forensic expertise and forensic accounting expertise have also been appointed.

To compensate for the damage caused by the swindlers, they seized 21 million rubles and 20 thousand US dollars, 17 cars for 32 million rubles, almost one and a half hundred pieces of jewelry for 10 million rubles. The arrest was also imposed on the truck bought by the defendants and money from the resale of a land plot with a house in the Moscow region.

As previously reported, the financial pyramid in the CBD appeared in the summer of 2020. Its organizers offered investors extra returns on invested funds - from 60 to 250 percent per month. The damage caused by the members of the organized crime group was estimated at more than 900 million rubles, and more than 3 thousand residents of different regions of Russia suffered.

Russia - Cars and jewelry confiscated from the organizers of the financial pyramid from the KBR