The Kirov Prosecutor's Office has submitted to the court the case of the lost billions of 1,147 depositors.
The Prosecutor's Office of the Kirov Region has approved an indictment in a high-profile case involving a financial pyramid scheme. A 41-year-old resident of Kirov will stand trial, who, according to the investigation, created a fictitious credit cooperative from 2014 to May 2023 and attracted funds from more than a thousand people.
The scheme was classic for such scams: investors from four regions — Kirov, Smolensk, Komi, and Crimea — were promised outrageous interest rates. However, as the investigation established, the leader had no plans to return the funds. The total damage caused to 1,147 victims exceeded 1 billion rubles.
The woman is now charged not only with large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) but also with the legalization of stolen funds (subparagraph "b" of part 4 of article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This means that she attempted to manage the received funds as if they were her own, "laundering" them through various operations.
The criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to the Lenin District Court of Kirov, where a substantive hearing will begin in the near future.
It is noteworthy that the described scheme and the scale of the attracted funds closely resemble the story of the Kirov Credit Cooperative "Invest Center," about which Newsler.ru reported in 2023 regarding its bankruptcy and the criminal prosecution of its management. However, the official statement from the prosecutor's office does not specify the name of the cooperative.
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The Kirov Prosecutor's Office has submitted to the court the case of the lost billions of 1,147 depositors.
The woman who led the investment center spent almost 9 years collecting money from citizens across the country, promising astronomical returns, but now she faces up to 10 years in prison for fraud and money laundering.
