Finiko founder Kirill Doronin detained in Kazan
In Kazan, one of the founders of the Finiko financial pyramid, Kirill Doronin, was detained. Local media reported this сообщили.
According to данным «Татар-информ», officers of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan summoned Doronin for questioning, during which he was detained.
In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan they confirmed the detention of Kirill Doronin on suspicion of fraud committed on a particularly large scale in the context of a criminal group.
The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan is currently deciding on the measure of restraint for the defendant. The investigation requests that he be placed in custody.
The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested Kirill Doronin for two months, until September 28. The investigation had requested placing the founder of Finiko in custody, noting that he holds dual citizenship, could flee or exert pressure on witnesses.
Doronin did not admit guilt, but told the court that he was prepared for a “reasoned dialogue”.
On the eve, Doronin deleted his Instagram account; online chatter suggested he had created a backup page. The founder himself said the account had been hacked. Recently Doronin announced the creation of a new firm allegedly to return funds to investors.
The prosecutor’s office of Tatarstan opened in December 2020 a criminal case against Finiko employees not yet identified at the time. They are suspected of illegally attracting no less than 80 million rubles.
According to investigators, from June 2018 to December 2020, Finiko representatives attracted funds under the pretext of highly effective investments in stock markets and cryptocurrencies. Depositors were promised monthly high returns. Law enforcement officers suspect that Finiko conducted no actual investment activity.
The police were approached by more than a hundred affected depositors from Krasnodar Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Primorsky Krai, Tyumen, Samara, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, and Irkutsk Oblasts.
The investigation has also begun in the Kazakh city of Алматы.
The real damage from the pyramid’s activities, according to independent experts, exceeds $4 billion, and the number of victims stands at no less than 850,000 people.
On July 13, the pyramid announced a suspension of payments and requested clients to provide documents proving the origin of the invested funds.
According to media reports, Finiko founder Kirill Doronin obtained Turkish citizenship and bought property in Thailand.
Later Doronin stated that he lost access to user accounts, and his partners stopped responding.
In a counter video address, the co-founders said that as early as the beginning of July they transferred all the pyramid’s depositors’ funds to Doronin himself at his request, when he was allegedly seized in Turkey.
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