One of organizers of FINIKO pyramid scheme detained in Turkey

14:27, 03 ноября 2023, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira Makanbai kyzy

One of the organizers of FINIKO pyramid scheme was detained in Turkey. Damage from fraudsters’ activities reached $1.4 million. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

More than 100 citizens of Kyrgyzstan suffered from the criminal activities of FINIKO.

The ministry noted that the 43-year-old woman put on the international wanted list in November 2022. She was wanted for fraud on an especially large scale, creation of a criminal community and participation in it.

Earlier, National Interpol Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with colleagues from Georgia and Russia, detained Kyrgyzstani for complicity in crimes. She is being held in prison No. 8 in Tbilisi. The issue of her extradition is being worked out jointly with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Another organizer was extradited to Kyrgyzstan from Russia. A foreigner was brought along with her. The suspect is being held in prison for committing similar crimes in his homeland.

The foreigner created a stable criminal group aimed at committing serious and especially serious crimes through deception and abuse of trust, under the pretext of providing financial services, with the aim of extracting and illegally appropriating funds from citizens, namely, he organized a financial company called FINIKO.