A Moscow resident filed a police report after losing nearly 18 million rubles on investments in the financial pyramid Finiko. TASS, citing a law-enforcement source, reports.
According to the victim, in June she sold her apartment in the capital for 17.7 million rubles. She transferred the funds into digital assets, sending them to the Finiko platform.
Following news of the arrest of one of the pyramid’s founders Kirill Doronin, the woman tried to withdraw funds, but her personal account was blocked.
The authorities have begun an investigation.
In December 2020, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office of Tatarstan, opened a criminal case against Finiko. The company was suspected of organising a financial pyramid worth at least 80 million rubles. Later, the prosecutors in Tatarstan received more than 100 complaints from investors in the company.
In July Finiko suspended payments and asked clients to provide documents confirming the origin of the invested funds.
Doronin stated that he had lost access to user accounts, and his partners stopped responding.
Independent experts estimate the total damage from the company’s activities at hundreds of millions of dollars.
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