{"id":36369,"date":"2021-02-12T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36369"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:01:18","slug":"bitsonar-pyramid-founder-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitsonar-pyramid-founder-charged-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitsonar pyramid founder charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Odessa regional prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent to court <a href=\"https:\/\/od.gp.gov.ua\/ua\/news.html?_m=publications&#038;_t=rec&#038;id=289066&#038;fbclid=IwAR18QJOaGWDomLtEmBwlaE4mlDXX3m2CyfsrUP24CcDb1QnWuEU5j-sxwfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u043e\u0431\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0430\u043a\u0442<\/a> against the founder of the Bitsonar pyramid Alexander Tovstenko, suspected of organizing the contract murder of a former colleague.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He is charged with an attempted criminal offence (<a href=\"https:\/\/kodeksy.com.ua\/kriminal_nij_kodeks_ukraini\/statja-15.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0447.2 \u0441\u0442. 15 \u0423\u041a \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u044b<\/a>), and with an intentional contract murder for mercenary motives (<a href=\"https:\/\/kodeksy.com.ua\/kriminal_nij_kodeks_ukraini\/statja-115.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u043f.\u043f. 6, 11 \u0447. 2 \u0441\u0442. 115 \u0423\u041a \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u044b<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Alexander Tovstenko ordered the murder of Yaroslav Stadtchenko (also known as Yan Novak). The defendant faces a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>It was Stadtchenko who exposed the fact that Bitsonar, presenting itself as an investment fund for algorithmic cryptocurrency trading, was a Ponzi scheme. He also named the real organizer of the pyramid \u2014 the former Ukrainian official Alexander Tovstenko.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u00abExit-scam Bitsonar: how a former Ukrainian official built a pyramid, posing it as an investment fund\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/ekzit-skam-bitsonar-kak-byvshij-ukrainskij-chinovnik-postroil-piramidu-vydavaya-ee-za-investfond\/embed\/#?secret=VaUS8sdrjB\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"VaUS8sdrjB\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with ForkLog, Stadtchenko claimed that Tovstenko had ties to the security services.<\/p>\n<p>On August 26 in Kyiv, Yaroslav Stadtchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-kyiv-former-bitsonar-employee-and-pyramid-whistleblower-abducted\">was abducted by unknown individuals<\/a>. As later disclosed, this was carried out by SBU officers to stage his murder. The client <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/founder-of-unnamed-crypto-fund-detained-in-ukraine-on-suspicion-of-contract-killing\">was detained<\/a> during the transfer of the second part of the reward to the killer in the amount of $5000.<\/p>\n<p>In September Stadtchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fbi-files-complaint-against-bitsonar-pyramid-founder\">reported violations<\/a> by Alexander Tovstenko to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>On December 3, the court <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitsonar-pyramid-founder-suspected-of-murder-released-from-pre-trial-detention-under-house-arrest\">released Tovstenko from pre-trial detention<\/a> to house arrest, and on December 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/court-remands-bitsonar-pyramid-founder-in-pre-trial-detention-on-murder-charges\">returned him to the detention facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Odessa regional prosecutor&#8217;s office has sent an indictment to court against the creator of the Bitsonar pyramid, Alexander Tovstenko, suspected of organizing the contract murder of a former colleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1905,1162,1154,1163],"class_list":["post-36369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitsonar","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36371,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369\/revisions\/36371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}