{"id":32615,"date":"2020-12-01T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T09:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32615"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:34:53","slug":"bank-of-russia-identifies-cashbery-followers-behind-crypto-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bank-of-russia-identifies-cashbery-followers-behind-crypto-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Russia Identifies Cashbery Followers Behind Crypto Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Bank of Russia has uncovered a financial pyramid in which managers from Cashbery participated. Investments in the pyramid were accepted exclusively in cryptocurrencies, said Valery Liakh, head of the central bank&#8217;s Department for Countering Unfair Practices, in an interview with <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/10136947\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The pyramid was organised by a company named Antares Limited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\\&#8221;Scammers operated both through social networks and offline \u2014 they rolled out several &#8216;consultation centers&#8217; in 16 regions to attract &#8216;investments&#8217;\\&#8221;<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> \u2014 Liakh said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The central bank found that Antares Limited did not conduct any real activity, and payments were made solely from attracting new funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\\&#8221;According to information posted on social networks, the company is a successor to Cashbery\\&#8221;, \u2014 said the Bank of Russia&#8217;s press service.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The regulator declared Cashbery a pyramid in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-embedded-content\\\" data-secret=\\\"rH8EestW5c\\\">\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\\&#8221;I&#8217;m not a freeloader, I&#8217;m a partner: how Cashbery managed to repeat the MMM success and what Bitcoin has to do with it\\&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\\\"lazy\\\" class=\\\"wp-embedded-content\\\" sandbox=\\\"allow-scripts\\\" security=\\\"restricted\\\" style=\\\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\\\" title=\\\"I'm not a freeloader, I'm a partner: how Cashbery managed to repeat the MMM success and what Bitcoin has to do with it \u2014 ForkLog\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/ya-ne-halyavshhik-ya-partner-kak-keshberi-udalos-povtorit-uspeh-mmm-i-pri-chem-tut-bitkoin\/embed#?secret=huwECJw7XB#?secret=rH8EestW5c\\\" data-secret=\\\"rH8EestW5c\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" height=\\\"282\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" marginwidth=\\\"0\\\" marginheight=\\\"0\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Liakh also noted that perpetrators actively use the topic of cryptocurrencies. According to him, about a quarter of online pyramids are tailored to cryptocurrencies:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\\&#8221;Primarily they are aimed at people who are ready to invest large sums and take on a certain level of risk. Yet they are sold either a nonexistent or so exotic a cryptocurrency that it has no value and is not traded anywhere, or simply a USB flash drive that contains nothing.\\&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, in the first nine months of 2020 the Bank of Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-identified-140-pyramid-schemes-some-offering-investments-in-cryptocurrencies\">identified<\/a> more than a thousand illicit organisations operating in the financial market, some of which bore signs of financial pyramids and offered investments in cryptocurrencies and tokens.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Russia has uncovered a financial pyramid in which managers from Cashbery participated. Investments in the pyramid were accepted exclusively in cryptocurrencies, said Valery Liakh, head of the central bank&#8217;s Department for Countering Unfair Practices, in an interview with TASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[345,1163],"class_list":["post-32615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32617,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions\/32617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}