The United States accused four Russians of creating a cryptocurrency pyramid Forsage – Bits Media

The US Department of Justice was charged against four Russians, who founded a decentralized investment platform Forsage. They are accused of creating a pyramid for $340 million.

According to court documents, Vladimir Okhotnikov under the pseudonym Lado, Deer Obomskaya (Lola Ferrari), Mikhail Sergeyev (Mike Mooney, Gleb or Gleb Million) and Sergey Maslakov is charged with organized fraud using electronic means and threatens 20 Years of prison for everyone.

“The accused aggressively promoted Forsage through social networks as a licensed and profitable business opportunity. Also, the platform was advertised as a decentralized matrix project, based on network marketing and smart contracts on the blockchain. Wherein, The platform itself acted as a financial pyramid. This investment scheme has attracted $340 million from investors around the world ", - emphasize representatives of the US Ministry of Justice.

As a special agent Ivan Arvelo noted (Ivan's guess) From the Department of Investigations of National Security (HSI), The accused "used fashionable technologies and opaque formulations to lure money, But they themselves applied the classic Ponzi scheme ". Arvelo reminded, that technology can change, But fraud schemes remain, Therefore, law enforcement agencies continue to identify them.

Previously reported, that two inhabitants of Tomsk for abduction will judge in Russia 86 bitcoins in the amount 360 million rubles.