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The prosecution has requested 10 years in prison for blogger Bitmama in a fraud case.

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The prosecutor's office has requested 10 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for blogger Valeria Fedyakina (Bitmama) in a fraud case. This was reported on May 22 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the Presnensky District Court of Moscow.

Fedyakin is accused of stealing more than 2.2 billion rubles from clients. At the same time, the defendant pleads not guilty to fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The blogger was arrested in September 2023. According to investigators, Fedyakina organized a financial pyramid scheme and transferred earnings abroad, bypassing currency controls and restrictions. She received cash, transferred it to cryptocurrency, and sent it through crypto wallets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In recent years, the person involved has lived in two countries — Russia and the UAE.

The application for Bitmama was written by one of her investors (currently under state protection), who handed her 6.7 billion rubles in cash. He is recognized as a victim.

Earlier, on February 21, 2024, Marat Safiulin, an expert at the Financial University under the Government, explained the Bitmama scheme. He said that Fedyakina used permutations, with which she moved money from Russia to the UAE and back. He clarified that the reshuffle in the crypto business is something like money transfers. They allow you to receive a cash equivalent in the local currency for a commission.

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