The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg appointed a measure of restraint in the form of a subscription on recognizance not to suspect the creation of the supposed Russian Bitcoin-Pyramid – the Pro100business community. According to some estimates, about 60 thousand people were involved in it, and total investments could reach tens of millions of dollars. Reports about it Znak.com.
Suspects Artem Yurzin, Yevgeny Lebedev and Ivan Kolnogorov were detained yesterday, 1 August.
Pro100business was positioned as a community that supposedly specialized in cryptocurrency earnings. The basis was the ideology of the platform AirBitClub, of which Pro100business was a partner. Note, the platform has also been repeatedly accused of having signs of a pyramid.
The creators of Pro100business claimed that they sold cryptocurrency purchase contracts to investors.
“But in fact, they just took money from them, appropriated it and spent it on a beautiful life. Victims of imaginary crypto-currency players paid for their apartments, expensive cars, travel and other attributes of successful people, ” said lawyer Alexei Makarov.
It is worth noting that earlier Pro100business has already attracted the attention of law enforcement and regulators. Thus, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the prosecutor's office saw in it signs of a “financial pyramid” and sued Pro100business owner Evgeny Lebedev. However, according to the results of the hearings, the court did not deliver its verdict.
Initially, the investigation requested the detention of suspects, but the court chose a much milder preventive measure.
Recall that at the end of last year a bill was passed to the State Duma on blocking websites violating legislation in the field of finance, in particular, advertising pyramid schemes.
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