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Crypto Pyramid Busted in , Losses Exceed $10 Million

Crypto Pyramid Busted in , Losses Exceed $10 Million

n law enforcement agencies have gone after the organizers of a large crypto pyramid which has been promising extraordinarily high returns. The Ponzi scheme is being unraveled after a similar project defrauded thousands of investors in , the region, and far beyond.


Police Find Crypto Pyramid Organizers in Dagestan,


Officers from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the n republic of Dagestan have identified persons suspected of organizing a major financial pyramid offering victims profits of up to 500% per year on their investments in digital assets.


According to sources quoted by the n business daily Kommersant, the suspects are representatives of the Yusra Global project, Forklog reported. Besides Dagestan, the fraudulent entity had established offices in other n regions, Kazakhstan in Central Asia, and Turkey.


The publication reveals that the authorities have detained four people in January, all n citizens, who are believed to be behind the Ponzi scheme. They were initially placed under arrest for a period of two months. The defendants may face up to ten years in prison on top of hefty fines.


The perpetrators of the fraud were inflating quotes of values of digital assets and paid out dividends using the funds invested by new participants in the pyramid, the report detailed. They distributed the rest of the money amongst themselves and purchased real estate.



Preliminary estimates suggest the victims’ losses amount to 1 billion rubles, or more than $10 million according to current exchange rates at the time of writing, the n newspaper revealed.


The news about the investigation into Yusra Global comes after last year, when n authorities busted arguably the country’s largest financial scam since the notorious MMM pyramid in the 1990s.


Finiko, also a Ponzi scheme exploiting the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies, is responsible for the loss of up to $4 billion in total. Its founder Kirill Doronin — a social media influencer linked to other scams in the past — and a number of his accomplices were arrested.


Citizens of , e, and other countries in the former-Soviet space, EU member states, and the U.S. are among the people who sent 800,000 separate crypto deposits to the phantom entity. The pyramid, which was based in another n republic, Tatarstan, received over $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin in less than two years, according to Chainalysis.


Do you expect n authorities to target other financial pyramids related to crypto investments? Tell us in the comments section below.


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