On April 20, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard detained six leaders and active participants in the Finiko financial pyramid. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the department.

The inspector petitioned for the selection of a restraining measure for them in the form of detention.

According to the Business Online publication, Anton Semykin, curator of the pyramid website and support service, was among those detained in Kazan. He is now in a temporary detention centre. The media also reports that at least 50 searches were carried out across Tatarstan and in a number of other regions.

More than 5,000 testimonies of victims from the Russian Federation, CIS, Europe and the USA have already been added to the materials of the criminal case. Together they announced that more than 5 billion rubles were stolen.

Recall that a criminal case was brought against Finiko for fraud on a particularly large scale. They are managed by the head office of the Ministry of Interior, together with the employees of the Organized Crime Investigation Department.

Finiko founder Kirill Doronin has been in detention since the end of July 2021.

The co-founders of the pyramid, Edward and Marat Sabirov, and Zygmunt Zygmuntovich were placed on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia. According to investigators, they left Russia through Belarus and may be on the territory of the United Arab Emirates.

Total damage from Finiko’s activities exceeds $4 billion, according to independent estimates. The number of victims is at least 850,000 people.

Earlier, Kirill Doronin made a deal with the investigation and testified against 44 accomplices in the pyramid scheme. At the same time, he pleaded not guilty and denied the theft of funds.

Learn more about the Finiko financial pyramid in a dedicated ForkLog article.