Chainalysis: "Pyramid" Finiko "collected more $1.5 billion in bitcoins " – Bits Media

According to the analytical company Chainalysis, recently collapsed pyramid "Finico", working mainly in Russia and Ukraine, collected more $1.5 billion in bitcoins.

Finico worked with 1 December 2018 by 28 july 2021 of the year. As in other pyramids, investors attracted large profits. At the time of the arrest of the founder of the pyramid Kirill Doronin, Law enforcement agencies reported, that the damage from the scheme was 13 million rubles. Recently, the damage assessment has been increased to 250 million rubles. but, If the Chainalysis data is correct, then the amount collected by the organizers of " 100 billion rubles.

Thus, the Russian financial pyramid has become one of the largest cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes - only the Onecoin pyramid is inferior in terms of the amounts of “Finnish”, which attracted $4.4 billion. At the end of last year, “finico” attracted the attention of regulators, And in February of this year, the Bank of Russia issued a warning, in which he announced the presence of "signs of the pyramid" with the company.

Chainalysis analysts noted, that although the total volumes of cryptocurrency payments in Western Europe are higher, Users from Eastern Europe are more often invested in various fraudulent schemes. At the same time, it was “finico” who collected more than half of these payments in Eastern Europe.

Interesting, that Ukraine is a leader in visiting cryptocurrency fraudulent sites - from Ukraine, twice as many visits to such sites are recorded from Ukraine, than from the USA.

Recall, that in early August, Bitcoin himself called a pyramid in Russia a pyramid. First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Shvetsov said, that bitcoin is a "technical pyramid" and "minefield".