A con artist from Moscow, who was posing as a businesswoman, was arrested for six months.

Diana Musayeva, a Moscow swindler who has been extorting money from friends for years, posing as an entrepreneur, has had her arrest extended for six months. This was reported on May 5 by a correspondent of Izvestia.

Musayeva will remain in custody until October 29. She partially admitted her guilt.

A few years ago, a Muscovite woman convinced a neighbor to invest 250,000 rubles in her business for the purchase and resale of branded clothing from Italy. Musayeva showed her friend the contract with the company through which she allegedly delivered the goods, and presented papers indicating that she had money in her account that she allegedly could not withdraw.

Soon, the "business" demanded new expenses — in order to invest in the business, Musayeva's victim sold the car and took out several loans. At first, the fraudster convinced her neighbor that the goods "did not reach her," and then stated that the person who planned to buy it had died, and she herself was allegedly diagnosed with cancer.

The deceived woman wrote a statement to the police and found out that Musayeva had deceived at least five people. It turned out that amateur actors she met online were involved in the scam - one of them played the role of the owner of a clothing store, the others presented themselves as successful businessmen sponsoring the "project" of the Muscovite.

By decree of Musayeva, one of the scammers entered into a romantic correspondence with another victim, convincing her that he had been beaten and then imprisoned. Later, the woman received a remote marriage proposal — it was made by an animator in a bear costume. In an attempt to save her lover, the victim got into debt, lost her apartment, car and business.

Acquired advantage: The townhouse and 14 billion rubles may be withdrawn from the founder of Rusagro.

Assets worth tens of billions of rubles were recorded, including his relatives and subordinates.

The day before, the Smolninsky court sentenced the former chairman of the Committee on Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg, Ivan Gromov, and his brother Pavel Gromov to prison terms for embezzlement. It was noted that in 2013-2018, the brothers and 11 of their accomplices stole almost 245 million rubles, which were allocated from the budget to finance state policy in the field of informatization and communications.