Assistant to the most famous organizer of the financial pyramid in the world of MMM, Sergei Mavrodi Maria Solodar
goes "to study" in the US and organized fraudulent trainings. At home, she fell into the black list of civil organization Peacekeeper aka "Mirotvoretc", an analogue of the NSA.
There are no comments from the authorities of the United States
Original investigation video - https://youtu.be/my47Sys_2n8
Criminality Taints Dozens of Russian Office-Seekers
Assistant to the most famous organizer of the financial pyramid in the world of MMM, Sergei Mavrodi Maria Solodar
goes "to study" in the US and organized fraudulent trainings. At home, she fell into the black list of civil organization Peacekeeper aka "Mirotvoretc", an analogue of the NSA.
There are no comments from the authorities of the United States
Original investigation video - https://youtu.be/my47Sys_2n8
Criminality Taints Dozens of Russian Office-Seekers
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MOSCOW — Election monitors exposed an extraordinary legal loophole Wednesday with the disclosure that Russia's guarantee of parliamentary immunity has put on the ballot for upcoming elections 79 candidates with criminal pasts or pending indictments.
A list released by the Interior Ministry after an examination of police and court records of the 30,000 candidates registered for the Dec. 17 elections includes some Soviet-era dissidents jailed for fighting the totalitarian system, such as human rights champion and lawmaker Sergei A. Kovalev.
But many other candidates are being described as swindlers and mafia bigwigs hoping to elude justice by winning seats in the safehouse of the Duma, Parliament's lower chamber.
"We decided to distribute this list to the press because as citizens of this country we cannot be indifferent to what shape our next Parliament will be in," said Yuri A. Vedeneyev, spokesman for the Central Election Commission that called for the review of the candidates.
Mavrodi expelled from the American bitcoin-association
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Bitcoin Foundation, which oversees the development and further promotion of Bitcoin's crypto currency, excluded the international branch of the infamous MMM financial pyramid, Sergei Mavrodi, from among its "silver partners" MMM Global Community. This was reported to Izvestiya by the Bitcoin Foundation press service.
The Bitcoin Foundation confirmed that MMM Global became a silver partner on November 13, 2014 - already 3 days later, Bitcoin Foundation forum users expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the fund was sponsored by the pyramid, pointing to the poor reputation of the MMM and the fraudulent nature of the company. Already on November 17, the MMM Global die disappeared from the list of partners. The fact of the appointment of MMM as a partner of the fund is evidenced by "snapshots" of search engines; In addition, Bitcoin Foundation hurried to announce a new sponsor in social networks (the message on Twitter was deleted, on Facebook at the time of publication of this note remained).
The terms of the failed silver partnership with the Bitcoin Foundation are uncomplicated. Silver partnership costs $ 1000 per year. It gives you the right to vote in the election of members of the board of directors of the fund, the ability to organize your own page on the fund's website, provide one free pass and the right to speak at the Bitcoin2015 conference (to be held in Asia, until it is decided where exactly). Silver partnership also guarantees the placement of the logo on the Bitcoin Foundation members page. The web has screenshots of the page bitcoinfoundation.org/members, where the logo of the Mavrodi organization is listed among the partners, but the fund is assured that MMM Global has not become a partner.
The Bitcoin Foundation, based in the US, added that they excluded the company from the silver partners once they learned that the company is a financial pyramid. The organization was informed that the MMM Global cash contribution "is in the process of being returned".
MMM, headed by Sergei Mavrodi, is a well-known financial pyramid in Russia operating under the Ponzi scheme. The first iteration of the company was created in October 1992, and closed by the authorities in 1997 on charges of fraud. In 2003, Sergei Mavrodi was sentenced to 4.5 years for fraud. The financial damage caused by the pyramid was recognized by the consequence of 10 thousand people.
In 1997, Mavrodi was already making an attempt at international expansion - he organized the Stock Generation pyramid in the US. In the pyramid was introduced more than $ 70 million. Soon the US Securities Commission arrested the accounts of the pyramid. Neither Mavrodi nor his accomplices were brought to justice.
In 2011, Mavrodi created a new pyramid, but in an online format - the interaction between investors is via the Internet. Such a format has reduced the risks of prosecution by financial authorities. The company's plans included the release of the pyramid outside the CIS, to the global market.
Mavrodi spoke about Bitcoin in his blog as a currency unstable, but with a serious potential. In 2012, he created an analog bitcoin - MMMcoin, which generated a bonus of 50% of the deposit after each month of storage. Soon MMMcoin was hacked by hackers and ceased operations. The domain mmmglobal.com was purchased from the registrar from the Bahamas in February 2014. The site's servers are located in San Francisco, USA. The site promotes the pyramid already at the international level and is translated into 5 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Filipino.
Bitcoin is an anonymous digital currency that is used for payments on the Internet. The currency was established in 2008, it began to be widely used, including on the exchange of crypto-currencies, in 2010. Used as the main means of payment for the purchase of weapons and drugs in the anonymous network TOR. Since November 2012, on a wave of public resonance, the bitcoin rate has risen from $ 10 to $ 1 thousand in December 2013. After the cost of 1 bitcoin fell to $ 400 after the collapse of one of the bitcoins exchanges. In January 2014, the Central Bank criticized critically about the bitcoins and connected the Prosecutor General's Office to the study of their nature. But already in July 2014, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank, George Luntovsky, said that "it is impossible to reject this instrument, perhaps, the future is behind it." Bitcoin is already banned for use in Bolivia, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan.
The fraudster and scam artist Maria Solodar:MMM Global: Russian ‘Ponzi scheme’ from 1990s reborn and now ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Africa
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Thousands of investors are feared to have lost their money after a pyramid scheme run by a convicted Russian fraudster crashed, somewhat predictably, in Zimbabwe.
MMM Global has swept across Africa, with branches promising returns on investment of 30 per cent a month in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and some east African states.
It is masterminded by the former Russian politician Sergey Mavrodi, who went on the run when the original MMM – standing for Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox – collapsed in the late 1990s, losing investors an estimated $100m.
On its website, MMM Global unashamedly advertises itself as a scheme whereby new members “assist” older members by paying a fee to join. Older members are allowed to withdraw money after a certain period of time, and receive bonuses for encouraging others to sign up.
Mavrodi himself is reported to have gone into hiding after a separate entity designed to reward investors with the cryptocurrency bitcoin – dubbed the “Republic of Bitcoin” – folded in April this year.
And since then, a criminal investigation has been launched into MMM Global’s branch in South Africa, after a probe by the National Consumer Commission “found something” to suggest the scheme was acting illegally.
With Zimbabwe’s traditional financial institutions in jeopardy and the country gripped by an economic crisis, thousands turned to MMM Global as an investment that was avowedly independent of government control.
That’s despite a warning from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe that the scheme was fraudulent. RBZ warned members of the public that existing investors were “paid money not from genuine market investment of their funds, but from contributions made by new investors, until a point when the scheme can no longer attract new investors”.
Sure enough, users reported being unable to withdraw any funds earlier this month. One told The Herald newspaper: “When we started putting our funds in the scheme one could get assistance within seven days but things later changed to 14 days and when we were shut out the waiting period was 21 days.
“What it simply means is that the number of people in need of help has outnumbered the number of people joining. Right now we have nowhere to get our money which we invested.”
Despite the cautionary tales of Zimbabwe and South Africa – and indeed the original MMM scheme – a branch is now proving increasingly popular in Nigeria.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has been forced to step in, warning consumers not to deposit money in any institution that is not insured by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).
The bank’s comms director, Isaac Okoroafor, described MMM Global as “a new Ponzi scheme … that is spreading like wildfire”.
“These people always come with very interesting propositions,” Mr Okoroafor said. “These are fraudsters who are just out there to collect people’s money and run away as soon as they hit their target.”
MMM Global’s members across Africa continue to defend its legitimacy, publishing screengrabs showing withdrawals as proof the scheme pays out.
In South Africa, where a Ponzi scheme is defined as any investment where the return is 20 per cent higher than the repo rate (currently 7 per cent), an anonymous member told business website Fin24: “MMM honestly tell people how it really works and do not promise people any return on the investments.
“As a donation programme, how is it possible to lose your donation? In MMM people ask each other to help them. It depends on the members themselves to maintain the continuation of the process of the provision of help to each other.”
A number of South African banks have now started shutting down accounts they believe could be linked to MMM, while in Zimbabwe the trusted mobile money transfer company EcoCash has distanced itself from the scheme, saying it is “not liable for any losses arising from the use of EcoCash to engage in illegal activities such as Ponzi schemes”.
Russia's new election laws exclude from participation only people currently in prison, leaving ex-cons and indicted defendants free to run for offices that will protect them from further prosecution if they are elected.
International observers tracking Russia's progress toward multi-party democracy condemn the clause protecting elected officials from prosecution, saying it has perverted the political process.
"The citizens of most democratic countries must wait to suffer the disappointments of a few elected officials becoming crooked and criminal until after they are elected to office," said Michael Caputo, head of the Moscow office of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. "In Russia, the present laws encourage candidates with many years of experience."
The protective perquisites of membership in the 450-seat Duma have already been demonstrated in the case of Sergei Mavrodi, head of a failed pyramid investment scheme that deprived millions of depositors of their life savings. Last year, as criminal investigators closed in on him, Mavrodi sought and won an open Duma seat, which allowed him to escape prosecution on tax evasion and other charges.
Mavrodi was stripped of his parliamentary immunity by fellow Duma deputies earlier this month after repeated attempts by reform-minded economists to cleanse the government ranks.
But the Duma to be elected in December is expected to be more conservative, as reformist parties are now unpopular with voters tired of Russia's protracted transition to a free-market economy.
That is expected to make expulsion considerably more difficult, as anti-reform politicians conspire with criminal elements to further shackle the dwindling faction of liberals.
Tag: MMM-2011
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What’s the difference between today’s global finance system and a Ponzi scheme? This is the question that a 56-year-old veteran Russian financial scammer has been asking his victims.
Chillingly, he almost has a point.
Sergei Mavrodi is one of the most infamous names in Russia‘s recent history. Back in February 1994, amid the turmoil of the country’s transition to a market economy, the mathematician organized a Ponzi scheme called MMM. He offered returns of 100 percent a month and advertised aggressively on national television. Before the pyramid crashed in July 1994, it attracted as many as 10 million depositors, making it more popular than the voucher privatization program that was supposed to give regular Russians a chance to take a stake in formerly state-owned enterprises.
Mavrodi managed to avoid prison for nearly a decade, in part by getting elected as a parliamentary deputy and using the status to obtain immunity from prosecution. He ultimately served out a four-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud. While in prison, Mavrodi wrote books and movie scripts, one of which — PyraMMMid — was later made into a successful film.
Now he’s back with an even more audacious endeavor: the honest scam. Last year, he announced the new project, MMM-2011, by stating boldly that it would be another Ponzi scheme. “Even if you strictly follow all instructions, you can still lose,” he wrote on a website describing the project. “Your ‘winnings’ may be withheld without any explanation or reason whatsoever.” Depositors would be paid solely from funds invested by other depositors. There would be no attempt to generate income in any other way. This, he said, was perfectly all right, and no different than the way some of the largest institutions in global finance operated, from the Russian pension fund to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
“What is money?” he wrote. “Nothing! Nihil. A phantom. … It is backed by nothing at all and printed by the masters in any quantity, at will.”
Such a case might have been hard to make back in 1994, when Russians saw the U.S. dollaras an unassailable store of value. But in today’s post-financial-crisis world, it’s easy to see how Mavrodi’s arguments could convince an uninitiated observer. The U.S. is paying back its bondholders with money freshly printed by the Fed. Greece is paying back investors with money the European Union has borrowed from other investors — or maybe some of the same investors — via its bailout funds. The developed world’s central banks have printed the equivalent of trillions of dollars in new money to keep their financial systems and economies afloat.
Mavrodi’s sales pitch worked. On May 31, MMM-2011 claimed 35 million participants throughout the world. The number may be wildly inflated, but there were certainly hundreds of thousands of people in Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet nations who invested with Mavrodi. Their money allowed him to buy outdoor advertisements (this time avoiding TV) and open up chains of “consulting offices.”
The operation employed a structure borrowed from multi-level marketing. Early investors recruited new ones. A member who brought ten people into the fold could become a foreman and take a small cut from each investment by his “clients.” The first adopters could end up running an army of 100,000 or even a million. They offered returns from 20 percent for a one-month deposit up to 60 percent monthly for a 12-month deposit.
This time around, the mathematician was careful to mitigate the risk that he would be accused of fraud, or of operating a financial business without a license. MMM-2011 was not a legal entity. Money was moved strictly between people’s private bank accounts or electronic wallets. The network made extensive use of communication technology: Potential foremen were interviewed via Skype, and each member was required to use a Gmail account.
Authorities were nonplussed. “The law enforcement agencies have a very high sensitivity threshold,” Russia’s financial ombudsman Pavel Medvedev told TVRain. “They worry when someone gets killed, not when fraud is being perpetrated.” Criminal proceedings were started against Mavrodi in Novosibirsk, where he was accused of “aiding illegal enterprise,” but no move was made to arrest the MMM mastermind, who communicated with his followers only by posting videos on his website.
In Ukraine, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov promised that the government would “check on what grounds this company started operating” and warned citizens that “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” No decisive action was taken. Alexei Plotnikov, a parliamentary deputy from the ruling Regions Party, argued that action wasn’t necessary: “There is a general rule that you should not stick fingers in an electrical outlet, but there will always be people who do that,” he said. “It’s the same with Ponzi schemes and other questionable operations. All the government should do is issue a warning.”
MMM-2011 halted payments on May 31. “Unfortunately, I have to admit that a panic has started within the System,” Mavrodi wrote, blaming the media for spreading malicious rumors. “This is a pyramid! If everyone rushes to withdraw the money, there is no way there will be enough money for everybody. In fact, it would be the same with any bank.”
Undaunted, Mavrodi launched a new pyramid, MMM-2012, saying that it would be used to prop up MMM-2011. “Don’t worry, don’t be nervous, we will fix everything, and you’ll get paid in full,” Mavrodi wrote, adding immediately: “This is not a promise, just a feeling I have.”
Experts pointed out the difference between those who lost their money to the first MMM in 1994 and the members of Mavrodi’s modernized social network. “There is a different motivation now,” psychologist Akop Narvazyan told Russia’s Channel One. “This is a gamble: People hope they will be smarter, more cunning than others. This is no longer mere inexperience, it’s adventure-seeking.” Yet when the pyramid collapsed, Internet forums quickly filled with desperate pleas. “Please help me withdraw my deposit of 3.8 million rubles ($112,000). Am willing to pay 30 percent. Can anyone help or is it all over?” read one post. “Guys, save me, I borrowed serious money from serious people and now my foreman won’t answer!” read another. Some MMM-2011 depositors, like their predecessors in 1994, have borrowed against their apartments to invest and are now facing homelessness.
It may all be their fault. They had been warned repeatedly by various officials and by Mavrodi himself. It is, however, an interesting moral issue, if not a legal one, whether governments have any obligation to protect financial innocents from themselves. One also wonders whether the policy makers managing the world’s financial system might be able to extract some lessons for themselves.
(Leonid Bershidsky, an editor and novelist, is Moscow and Kiev correspondent for World View. Opinions expressed are his own.)
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MMM (Ponzi scheme company)
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| Industry | Office Equipment importer (1989-early 1990s) Ponzi Scheme initiator (1992 onwards) |
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| Fate | Shut down by Russian police in 1994, declared bankruptcy in 1997, reopened in 2011 targeting almost 110 countries. |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Russia |
Key people
| Sergei Mavrodi |
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s.[1][2] By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The exact figures are not known even to the founders. In 2011, MMM re-opened as "MMM Global" with up to 110 subsidiaries per country, it became widely popular in various African countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Kenya [3] In 2017, the Redeemed Christian Church of God warned all members against participating in MMM[4] It was said that some Redeem church pastors were promoters of the scheme from the beginning [5] By January 2017, hundreds of other schemes have joined the ever growing ponzi industry in Nigeria; abcdonor,Twinkas,ultimate cycler etc [6][7]
History[edit]
Russia[edit]
MMM was established in 1989 by Sergei Mavrodi,[2] his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi, and Olga Melnikova. The name of the company was taken from the first letters of the three founders' surnames.
Initially, the company imported computers and office equipment. In January 1992, tax police accused MMM of tax evasion, leading to the collapse of MMM-bank, and causing the company to have difficulty obtaining financing to support its operations. Faced with difficulties in funding its foreign trade, the company switched to the financial sector. It offered American stocks to Russian investors, but met with little success. Later, MMM-Invest was created for the purpose of collecting vouchers during privatisation. This effort was similarly unsuccessful.
MMM created its successful Ponzi scheme in 1994. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to one thousand percent. It is unclear whether a Ponzi scheme was Mavrodi's initial intention, in so far as such extravagant returns might have been possible during the Russian hyperinflation in such commerce as import-export.
MMM grew rapidly. In February 1994, the company reported dividends of 1,000%, and started an aggressive TV ad campaign. Since the shares were not quoted on any stock exchange and the company itself determined the share price, it maintained a steady price growth of thousands of percent annually, leading the public to believe its shares were a safe and profitable investment.
An important factor in the scheme's success was word of mouth, but most of the company's success came from its extremely aggressive ad campaign, which appealed to the general public by using "ordinary" characters that viewers could identify with. The most famous of them, a "folk hero" of early 1994, was Lyonya Golubkov. Another notable marketing effort was a giveaway of free Metro trips to all Moscowcitizens on a particular day. MMM also was one of the first well-known companies in Russia with a logotype and slogans ("Flying from shadow to the light" and others).
At its peak the company was taking in more than 100 billion rubles(about 50 million USD) each day from the sale of its shares to the public. Thus, the cashflow turnover at the MMM central office in Moscow was so high that it could not be estimated. The management started to count money in roomfuls (1 roomful of money, 2 roomfuls of money, etc.).
Regular publication in the media of the rising MMM share price led President Boris Yeltsin to issue a decree in June 1994 prohibiting financial institutions from publicising their expected income.
The success of MMM in attracting investors led to the creation of other similar companies, including Tibet, Chara, Khoper-Invest, Selenga, Telemarket, and Germes. All of these companies were characterised by aggressive television advertising and extremely high promised rates of return. One company promised annual returns of 30,000%.
On July 22, 1994, the police closed the offices of MMM for tax evasion. The company attempted to continue the scheme for a few days after but soon ceased operations. At that point, Invest-Consulting, one of the company's subsidiaries, owed more than 50 billion rubles in taxes (USD 26 million), and MMM itself owed between 100 billion and 3 trillion rubles to the investors (from USD 50 million to USD 1.5 billion). In the aftermath, at least 50 investors, having lost all of their money, committed suicide.
Several organisations of "deceived investors" made efforts to recover their lost investments, but Sergei Mavrodi manipulated their indignation and directed it at the government. In August 1994 Mavrodi was arrested for tax evasion. However, he was soon elected to the Russian State Duma, with the support of the "deceived investors". He argued that the government, not MMM, was responsible for people losing their money, and promised to initiate a pay-back program. The amount ultimately paid back was minuscule compared to the amount owed.
In October 1995, the Duma cancelled Mavrodi's right to immunity as a deputy. In 1996, he tried to run for Russia's presidency, but most of the signatures he received were rejected. MMM declared bankruptcy on September 22, 1997.
While it was believed that Sergei Mavrodi left Russia and moved to the United States, it is possible that he stayed in Moscow, using his money to change apartments regularly and employ a group of former special agents.
Mavrodi was found and arrested in 2003. While in custody, Mavrodi was given until January 31, 2006 to read the documents in his fraud case against him (the criminal case consisted of 650 volumes, each 250-270 pages long). At the end of April 2007, Mavrodi was convicted of fraud, and given a sentence of four and a half years. Since he had already spent over four years in custody, he was released less than a month later, on May 22, 2007.
The MMM scandal led to increased regulation of the Russian stock market, but the legacy of the fraud led many to become extremely suspicious of any joint stock companies.
Stock Generation[edit]
With the help of a distant relative he started, Stock Generation Ltd., another pyramid scheme based around trading non-existent companies' stocks in a form of the "stock exchange game" on the company's site, stockgeneration.com. Despite a bold-letter warning on the main page that the site was not a real stock exchange, between 20,000 and 275,000 people, according to various estimates, fell for the promised 200% returns and lost their money. According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, losses of victims were at least USD 5.5 million.[8]
South Africa[edit]
In 2015, MMM began operating in South Africa with the same business model as MMM-2011, claiming a "30% per month" return through a "social financial network".[9] The group was identified as a possible pyramid scheme by the National Consumer Commission and accounts of clients were later frozen by Capitec Bank.[10] In response to mounting criticism and official investigations by state authorities in 2016, supporters of the South African MMM scheme staged a protest march in Johannesburg.[11] and had started up again in late November 2016.
Nigeria[edit]
In November 2015, MMM launched a website targeting the Nigerian audience, also claiming a "30% per month" return including other acquirable bonuses.[12] The entity was self-described as a "mutual aid fund where ordinary people help each other."[12] 2.4 million people had signed up by late 2016, with the country's unemployed as primary targets.[12]Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed that they are monitoring the scheme.[13] On the 13th of December, MMM announced the freezing of all members' accounts due to systems overload and the negative attention brought on by the Government and mass media,[14] leading to wide spread panic in the Nation and even attempted suicides.[15] On the 14th of December, LASEMA (Lagos State Emergency Management Agency) of Lagos State pleaded with Lagosians to dial their emergency number if they spot anyone trying to commit suicide. LASEMA took this action due to the number of suicides MMM caused in Russia[16]MMM Nigeria reopened on 13th January, 2017.[17]MMM Nigeria has taken on many charity and humanitarian donations to the Nigeria Society like donations to internally displaced people's camps and hospitalized patients.[18]
Zimbabwe[edit]
In July 2015, MMM East Africa, launched subsidiary "MMM Global Zimbabwe" targeting the Zimbabwe population.[19] MMM offered it's participants "30% per month" return on all investments.[20] It soon became widely popular in Urban areas of Zimbabwe, The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe warned it's citizens to stay clear of the program as it could be a fraudulent scheme. [21] On September 2016, MMM Global Zimbabwe issued a freeze on all accounts, speculations suggest that this occurred due to a fall in number of participants. On 5 September 2016, all MMM accounts were unfrozen, and members were encouraged by MMM to continue "investing" their money, however the MMM unfreeze came with a catch; Members would get an 80% loss of their available funds should they decide to withdraw their funds.[22]This made some participants let their funds remain in the program while others withdrew their funds to suffer an 80% loss of their money "invested". [23] This affected 66,000 Zimbabweans and caused some economic instability.[24]
Unexpected end of Ukrainian MMM
This new incarnation of the famous finale of the financial institution even the participants could predict at the moment of its creation, for one "but" - Mavrodi blamed the closure of the SBU, the Ukrainian security services and called MMM supporters of terrorists.
Ukrainian branch of the MMM has opened in January 2011, as well as in Russia with decoding "We Change the World." On the streets there were billboards with advertising in Kiev metro is constantly spinning rollers, paint all the advantages of the new financial scheme. She greatly resembled the savings bank - the investor had to deposit amount (usually not less than 100 hryvnia), and a month later there were already 130 hryvnia. All financial transactions conducted in currencies invented Mavrodi "Mavro". The client contract specifically stipulates that the investor may lose the entire amount of the time.
By mid-2011, according to estimates heads of the organization, officially recognized financial pyramid, only 200 thousand people were in Kiev, members of the scheme. Despite the background MMM, Ukrainian hryvnia invested in "Mavro" and waited for the golden rain.end of 2011, the organization closed its operations. At this time, the firm Mavrodi found better things to do in Russia, elections, trying to get into the opposition Coordinating Council and its other trolling.
However, when at the end of last year in Ukraine began a crucial time, Sergei Mavrodi would not Sergei Mavrodi, if not try to make money. In December 2013 MMM-2011 has become a MMM-2014. The conditions were even better: it was only registered on the site, and you have to account dripping about 600 rubles - 187 hryvnia. Then the money accrued bonuses depending on the course, "Mavro". Last established himself Mavrodi.
Pocket MMM was not empty. Experts attribute this as the fact that the organization was revived before the holidays, and the fact that it happened in an economically difficult time for Ukrainians. However, the scale of the human "bursts" at this time were much lower. Top managers of the MMM to mention the hundreds of thousands of depositors, but local journalists called numbers, and even less - 70 - 80 thousand.
The fact that the organization is minimized, spoke at the end of spring. thenmany not only did not receive any bonuses, but they could not get on their network account. Mavrodi claimed that this is due to a large volume of new investors. However, on the eve of Ukrainian MMM followed got a video of their financial guru as a personal message. It Mavrodi informed about the closure of their offspring:
"As I understand it, everyone is waiting for me in Sunday's video for clarification on the situation with Ukraine. So, there will be no clarification. Like it or not, and it is negative, and its absolutely no reason to put on public display. I and the ad-on did not do the site, but only after all the Kaspersky Lab announced. It is because of these reasons.
I understand your feelings, but thanks to its power. We do not come up with the situation with the head of the SBU? Sami saw everything. How can we continue to work in a country where we have officially declared by terrorists? What's hard to understand, and what does "explain"? Clear everything as day. Thank you, again, their precious power. Arrange this, the most real, in fact, a provocation. (No one, naturally, we do not fund and never funded.)
We, with St.her hand, do everything we can to mitigate the extreme consequences for the participants, and perform coagulation activity in Ukraine in the most favorable time for you. Everyone will be paid the face value + 10%. I express quite natural regret over the incident, but I hope for your understanding. There are realities, and with them have to be considered. Alas!
Sincerely, Sergei Mavrodi
PS And yet I believe that the Financial Apocalypse is inevitable! "
Statement by the head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaychenko was made in early July. "Financing items mercenary recruitment is carried out, including, and such seemingly forgotten entities as MMM. Two swindlers of this structure are the representatives of the terrorist organization "Donetsk People's Republic" in the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kurgan region ", - he said.
It is worth noting that the statement of the SBU, most likely caused by the figure of the chairman of the Supreme Council of the DNI Dennis Pushilin. Before the revolution, he was known as a functionary of the MMM, and even nominated a candidate from the party MMM candidateth to the Verkhovna Rada, promising universal credit amnesty.
Judging by the forums as an online MMM, and the concomitant, panic is a special application is not caused among the Ukrainian depositors. The participants of the financial scheme, apparently, there were people already grated and ready to take risks. "Invested 23 thousand hryvnia, I received at the output 5000. Maybe it'll be back "- this is the common refrain. Many, according to the records, participation in the financial pyramid just tickled their nerves and had little hope of winning the "roulette".
It is worth noting that Ukraine - the only country of the former union, which has undergone a double blow Mavrodi and his schemes. So, MMM twice tried to enter Estonia. In 2011, the organization of advertising was even officially banned.
In 2013, the activities of the MMM was under threat because of the criminal case in India.
Russian authorities also have left trying to catch the tail of the bird of happiness MMM, in different regions of the criminal cases of fraud were filed.
Russian authorities also have left trying to catch the tail of the bird of happiness MMM, in different regions of the criminal cases of fraud were filed.
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Wide fame Mavrodi was in the first-half ofnot the 1990s when he created pyramid participants began to millions of Russians. The first version of MMM lasted about three years and broke up a year before the 1998 default, when the system collapsed state short-term bonds (T-bills) and the authorities were forced to stop paying on the domestic debt. Mavrodi in 2007 was sentenced for fraud to 4.5 years in prison. Upon his release, he promised to "do something" for the return of debts to depositors. In early 2011, he announced the launch of a new project - MMM-2011 ( "We can do a lot"). In May last year it suspended payments to the participants of the pyramid, announced the creation of a new project - MMM-2012. FAS found the scheme "MMM-2011" pyramid scheme.
Hiding in one of the Moscow apartments, Mavrodi decided not to lose time. The yard was already the end of the 1990s - the Internet grew and expanded, and the legislation behind them clearly did not keep pace. This Mavrodi decided to use.
At that time, the federal legislation of the United States already knew about the existence of such a scam, as an online casino, and it already had suitable articles: up to 20k of evergreens for hosting on a server in the states and 2.5k for playing in them. But at the same time, there were two loopholes at once: one could bypass the ban by registering in offshore and substituting the name (instead of "casino" - "exchange", for example) than Mavrodi used. As a result, in 1998, the sister of Mavra's wife Oksana Pavlyuchenko registered the company StockGeneration Ltd in the Dominican Republic and the site to her. The company, designed for Pindos suckers, painfully resembled the rehearsal of the current MMM-2011: the site player bought shares of 11 lime "companies." The share price of 8 companies was free float, No. 9 - grew + 10% per month, No. 10 - + 50%, No. 11 - 100%. From time to time, the dumpers arranged Hard Reset - the stock price was reset and began to grow again. The invitation of the new fag was encouraged - for the issuance of invites, all the shares of a particular player were added in price. According to the principle of work, this was a typical pyramid - shares No. 9-11 were added to the price due to the stable supply of the bubble from the sale of shares No. 1-8.
At first Mavrodi and Co. (as well as Vlastilin) were paid by the gesheft, sending checks by mail (© all everything was paid). But over time, there were delays in sending checks, and since 1999 nothing has been paid. The disgruntled offered to roll up the application for soap (which no one came in since 1998) or call the phone (which was always on the answering machine). The honesty of paying all and all owners could be judged from the fact that the daily influx of dough in December 1999 was about 700 thousand dollars, and the daily outflow was only 160 thousand dollars. Shustra's family heated 275,000 people, the gesheft amounted to 70 million evergreens. Instead of payments to everyone, this gesheft was traveling along the Dominican Republic - Belize - Cyprus - Estonia route. In Estonia, money was cashed and exported. In the end, this circus was interested in the US Securities Commission (in the courtyard was 2000 year). Then they waited for a bummer - Mavrodi was kakbe not to do with (the company was registered with Oksana Pavlyuchenko, who in 1998 barely hit 18 years old). The latter, despite the efforts of Interpol, and was not caught - in 1999 she tried to run for the State Duma from the district of the Ryazan region, and then received data about her death in Moscow in an accident. Later information about her flashed in Estonia. In 2004, several domain names were registered in Hungary with the owner's name - Oksana Pavlyuchenko.
Also, wishing to crawl on the site at least now, the benefit of web.archive.org began to archive the Internet much earlier than 98th year. http://web.archive.org/web/*/stockgeneration.com. Watch until the year 2000 inclusive. Further, the domain of Serezha did not pay for it, so it was redeemed and now used for arbitrage traffic.
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