The court arrested businessman Gulakyan under the article on illegal banking activities.

On April 10, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested businessman Gagik Gulakyan, a victim in the Bitmama crypto blogger case (real name is Valery Fedyakin), under an article on illegal banking activities, according to materials available to Izvestia.

According to the materials, the petition for the election of a preventive measure was considered by the court on Thursday. The case was initiated under the article on illegal banking activities committed by an organized group with the extraction of income on an especially large scale. The article provides for up to seven years in prison and a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

Gulakyan was the applicant in this case against Fedyakina. After conducting investigative actions, he himself was detained by the Investigative Committee on April 9.

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In June last year, a court sentenced blogger Bitmama to seven years in a penal colony for large-scale fraud in the field of cryptocurrencies. It was clarified that the girl was found guilty of embezzling more than 2.2 billion rubles from clients, the court decided to recover this amount in favor of the victims.

The investigation revealed that Fedyakina had organized a pyramid scheme, earning millions of dollars from it. The blogger was withdrawing funds abroad, bypassing currency controls. The blogger herself has lived in two countries in recent years — in Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Fedyakina was arrested in September 2023. The application for Bitmama was written by one of her investors, who handed her 6.7 billion rubles in cash. He is recognized as a victim.

On February 17, the Moscow City Court rejected Fedyakina's appeal against a measure of restraint in the case of major fraud, despite the birth of a child in a pre-trial detention center (SIZO).

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