Foresight News reports that, according to Decrypt, a Russian woman who claimed to be a cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Moscow court for planning and implementing a Ponzi scheme in 2023, defrauding investors of Bitcoin worth $23 million (2.2 billion rubles). The woman, named Valeria Fedyakina, from Simferopol, impersonated a legitimate cryptocurrency trader with offices worldwide under the name "Bitmama", promising clients that she could transfer funds overseas using cryptocurrency to bypass Western sanctions.
Russian woman sentenced to 7 years in prison for scamming $23 million in Bitcoin
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