The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced the detention of Anna Serikova, a participant in the financial pyramid Finiko. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
According to the official representative of the department, Irina Volk, 45-year-old Serikova, known as Tiffany, was previously put on the wanted list and was hiding from the investigation.
The investigation claims that Serikova led the Finiko division in the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Territory. At Finiko, she was the network director. According to the prosecution, she collected more than $5 million from investors.
In September last year, one of the leaders of Finiko, businessman Ilgiz Shakirov, was detained in Tatarstan. On July 30, another co-founder of Finiko, Kirill Doronin, was detained. Both of them are now in jail.
On August 31, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested in absentia three more co-founders of the pyramid – Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, Edward and Marat Sabirovs. All of them face up to 10 years in prison.
According to investigators, from June 2018 to December 2020, Finiko representatives were engaged in raising funds under the pretext of highly effective investments when playing on stock markets, cryptocurrency markets and various trading platforms. Depositors were promised high monthly interest, but in fact Finiko did not conduct any investment activity. More than 100 deceived depositors filed statements with the police. The amount of stolen funds is more than 5 billion rubles, according to the prosecution.
At the end of June, the creators of Finiko became defendants in a new criminal case about the creation of a criminal community. Prior to that, they were charged with fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale.