From November 1, unknowns have withdrawn the remaining funds on one of Finiko’s wallets, totaling 750 BTC ($48.8 million at the time of writing). reported by YouTube blogger Andrey Alistarov.
Three 250 BTC transactions went to one wallet. The last of them is dated November 10.
“They withdrew the last 250 bitcoins, which is about a billion rubles, and again to the same account,” Alistarov said.
According to the Crystal Blockchain analytics service, the address to which the funds were received forwarded them to a wallet owned by the Huobi exchange. Subsequently, the sums were split into smaller amounts and transferred to other addresses.
Andrey Alistarov suspects that Finiko’s co-founders Marat and Edward Sabirov, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntowicz, are behind the transfers.
“They are transferring in parts, most likely afraid of a block. Why they have not been blocked yet is unclear, since they have long been marked as a scam. One thing is clear—the money is being cashed out at the moment,” added he.
An official criminal case has been opened against Finiko for large-scale fraud. The central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the Organized Crime Investigation Department, is handling it.
In early October, founder Kirill Doronin, who remained under arrest, and three of his associates Ilgiz Shakirov, Lilia Nurieva and Dina Gabdullina (Akhmetzyanova) were transferred to Moscow.
Co-founders of the pyramid Edward and Marat Sabirov, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntowicz, have been declared on international arrest warrant and arrested in absentia. According to investigators, they left Russia via Belarus and may be in the United Arab Emirates.
The total damage 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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