{"id":60461,"date":"2022-04-21T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60461"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:25:02","slug":"russia-detains-six-finiko-pyramid-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-detains-six-finiko-pyramid-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia detains six Finiko pyramid executives"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 20, officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard detained six leaders and active participants in the Finiko financial pyramid. As reported by TASS<\/a>, citing the agency’s press service.<\/p>\n

The investigator filed motions seeking that they be remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

According to Business Online<\/a>, among those detained in Kazan was the pyramid’s site and support-service supervisor Anton Semikin. He is currently in a temporary detention facility. Media also report at least 50 searches carried out across Tatarstan and in several other regions.<\/p>\n

More than 5,000 statements from victims in Russia, the CIS, Europe and the United States have already been attached to the case materials. Collectively they report losses exceeding 5 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

Earlier, a criminal case against Finiko for fraud in a large-scale<\/a> was opened. It is being handled by the Interior Ministry’s central apparatus in cooperation with investigators from the Organized Crime Department.<\/p>\n

Founder Kirill Doronin has been in custody<\/a> since late July 2021.<\/p>\n

Co-founders Edward and Marat Sabirov, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, have been declared with an international arrest warrant and arrested in absentia<\/a>. Investigators say they left Russia via Belarus and may be in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The total losses from Finiko’s activities, according to independent estimates, exceed $4 billion<\/a>. The number of victims is at least 850,000 people.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Kirill Doronin made a deal with the investigation and gave testimony against 44 accomplices<\/a> in the pyramid. He did not admit his guilt and denied embezzlement of funds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on Finiko’s pyramid operations, read ForkLog’s special material ForkLog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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