Statements from Finiko pyramid victims in Zabaykalsky Krai forwarded to Kazan

All statements from victims of the Finiko financial pyramid, submitted to the Russian MVD for the Zabaykalsky Krai, are being redirected to Kazan, where the company’s main office was located, according to the local authorities.

“A large-scale investigation is underway across Russia,” the ministry clarified.

According to the latest data, police have received 44 statements from victims in the Zabaykalsky region, and a total of 35 criminal cases have been opened.

Earlier, the Samara region MVD opened eight criminal cases of fraud by Finiko employees against local residents amounting to more than 6 million rubles.

According to the analytics firm Chainalysis, Finiko raised more than $1.5 billion in Bitcoin from investors in Eastern Europe.

There is an open criminal case against Finiko for fraud on a particularly large scale. It is being handled by the central apparatus of the MVD in coordination with investigators from the Organized Crime Investigations Department.

Founder Kirill Doronin, Finiko’s “vice presidents” Ilgiz Shakirov and Dina Gabdulina, and the “tenth star” Lilia Nurieva are in pre-trial detention.

Co-founders Edward and Marat Sabirov, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntovich have been declared internationally wanted and arrested in absentia. According to investigators, they left Russia via Belarus and may be in the United Arab Emirates.

The cumulative loss from Finiko’s activities, according to independent estimates, exceeds $4 billion. The number of victims is no less than 850,000 people.

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