Source Another organizer of the pyramid has been detained. On the territory of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), another founder of the Finiko financial pyramid, Edward Sabirov, was detained. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia is preparing a request for his extradition, in order to then take the man into custody in the Russian Federation. Earlier, the supervisory authority demanded the extradition of Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, who is also accused of organizing a criminal community under the guise of an investment company and stealing money from citizens. The damage is estimated at 5 billion rubles. The third founder, Kirill Doronin, was detained back in 2021 in Russia. The location of the fourth organizer of the pyramid, Marat Sabirov, is still unknown.
“The NCB of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in order to notify the Emirati side, sent a confirmation of the intention to demand his (Marat Sabirov. – “Kommersant”) extradition to Russia and a petition to keep him in custody for 60 days from the moment of detention,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reported. The supervisory agency also sent a petition to the UAE Ministry of Justice to keep Edward Sabirov in custody. After the preparation and translation of all extradition materials to the UAE Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor General's Office will send a request for the extradition of the organizer of the pyramid. . They are accused of “organizing a criminal community and participating in it” (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, the criminal organization operated from September 2018 to July 2019. Finiko's head office was located in Kazan, and branches operated in 70 regions of Russia. Investors were guaranteed a profit of 1% to 5% per day, explaining this by successful work on cryptocurrency and stock exchanges. However, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, real investment activity “was not actually carried out by the leaders and active participants of the platform.”
About 10,000 applications were received from the victims, according to the ministry. The damage from Finiko's activities exceeded 5 billion rubles. The victims were not only residents of Russia, but also citizens of Kazakhstan.
Law enforcement agencies have been involved in Finiko since the end of 2020. Then the first criminal case was initiated on the fact of organizing a financial pyramid (part 2 of article 172.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The prosecutor's office found out that the investment company did not receive a license to work as a forex dealer and was not listed in state registers and tax authorities of the Russian Federation. The Central Bank of Russia has included Finiko in the list of companies with signs of illegal activity, namely with signs of a financial pyramid. Initially, the case was investigated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tatarstan, which in the summer of 2020 opened a second case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
In the summer of 2021, one of the founders of the financial pyramid, Kirill Doronin, was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center. Then his associates were arrested in absentia, among them – Edward Sabirov and his brother Marat, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, Ilgiz Shakirov. In the fall of 2021, the case was transferred to the central office of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Arrests began of those who were engaged in marketing and attracted new members to the structure.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs sent requests for legal assistance to five foreign states – Estonia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Germany and Saint Lucia.
Russian police asked for help in finding the funds of the victims, the assets of the defendants in the case and the defendants themselves.
Earlier it was reported that ten organizers and participants of the Finiko pyramid, nine alleged members of the criminal organization were in custody put on the federal wanted list, and three leaders on the international wanted list.
On November 17, it became known that another founder of Finiko, Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, was detained in the UAE. The Prosecutor General's Office stated that it had sent a request for his extradition. At the same time, Marat Sabirov is still on the international wanted list.
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