New contributions buried: Cashbury investors carry money into another project

The depositors of "Cashbury" did not wait for the payments promised on December 1: they transferred money to another company of the founder of the financial pyramid Artur Vardanyan – GDC. It is the investors themselves who announced it to Izvestia, who expect to return the funds invested via a new project.

Cashbury's deceived clients try to use every opportunity to recover their investments. As the first participants of the new company, at the top of the next financial pyramid, they plan to win at the expense of the following investors.

However, according to experts, citizens will probably lose their investments again. According to their estimates, the damage caused by the activities of the GDC could exceed the losses of "Cashbury", representing at least 10 billion rubles.

According to the depositors of "Cashbury", you can transfer money to GDC via your personal account on the website of the financial pyramid. Thus, Yulia Ivanova of Novosibirsk transferred 1 million rubles to the new company of Art Vardanyan, Yana of Moscow – 500 000. tells investors the investors themselves. According to Yulia, "withdraw cash from Cashbury will not work, so you need to use other methods to make your investments profitable". The depositor is certain: when the GDC wins, the investment can be withdrawn.

"My friends and I decided to try to invest in a new company because it's the last chance," Yulia Ivanova told Izvestia. – There is nothing left to hope. Only Arthur knows if investors will be able to recover their money.

His colleague Yana also believes that it is not worth waiting for the payments on December 1 and investing in the GDC is the only way to recover the money. According to the pyramid client, Cashbury investor badistance is already available in some Chains of telegrams.

"In particular, the user called me Tiger," she said. – He asked to collect copies of extracts from his personal account, without demanding the payment of his services, said that he was interested in trying to help the victims of the financial pyramid. But after a few days, I came back with the answer that nothing had happened. According to him, it is impossible to withdraw money from "Cashbury".

Tiger did not answer the question "Izvestia" about how you can try to return the investments made in the financial pyramid. He only badumed that on December 1, payments to victims would not start and the company would close "for technical reasons".

The Global Decentralized Community (GDC) will start operating in two months, according to its website. It also states that it will be operational in 10 countries and that some of the Cashbury users will be automatically transferred there. For example, those whose investments do not exceed 20,000 rubles.

In the Central Bank, "Izvestia" previously said they were aware of the intention of the leaders of the group of companies "Cashbury" to launch a new project.

The regulator "monitors all information relating to the appearance or declarations relating to the appearance of potential financial pyramids", said representatives of the Bank of Russia.

Until now, the only thing known about the activities of GDC is that it will be a "decentralized investor community operating on the principle of multi-level marketing and marketing." blockchain ". The income that the company will offer its investors remains a mystery. But, as stated on the project website, Cashbury was just a warm up. It should be noted that the pyramid offered up to 600% per year to individuals and up to 228.5% per year – for entrepreneurs. On November 11, the service suspended the work.

Former clients of Cashbury, who are now investing in GDC, can be understood. They must make a choice: forget the money or try to get at least Something think Pavel Samiev, general manager of the Businessdrom agency. They may be hoping that the next pyramid will become popular and that as first participants in the summit, they will be able to get money from new investors, he said. The victims are transferring money to the Artur Vardanyan company for lack of financial knowledge, desperation and hope of miracle, added Alexander Bakhtin, BCS Premier investment strategist.

According to the expert, when there is open fraud, it is necessary to contact the law enforcement agencies to identify all the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

In accordance with Article 172.2 of the Penal Code, the organization of a financial pyramid in money or other property is punishable by up to six years' imprisonment. imprisonment.

The withdrawal of funds from the pyramid will not work even if there is a court decision, Pavel Samiev said. Unlike other licensed financial market participants, these companies do not have real badets that can be sold to settle their accounts with their creditors, he said.

Previously, the Central Bank estimated at 3 billion rubles the damage caused by the activities of "Cashbury". GDC is likely to operate according to the scenario of its predecessor, said Tamara Kasyanova, managing partner of the 2K audit company. However, the damage can be much greater, suggests the vice president. Loko Bank Andrey Lyushin. According to him, we can talk about 10 billion rubles.

According to the regulator, "Cashbury" would have attracted money from citizens without a license.

In the first nine months of this year, the Bank of Russia revealed 134 financial pyramids, most of which had their own websites.

In 2015-2018, the regulator recorded the activities of more than 650 organizations and Internet projects have signs of a financial pyramid. In 2015, 200 of these companies were identified, in 2016 – 180, in 2017 – 137. The Central Bank did not respond to the damage caused by the activities of the financial pyramids for the specified periods. According to Andrei Lyushin, the score goes up to "tens of billions of rubles".

The Interior Ministry is currently auditing the Cashbury group of companies. The criminal case has not yet been opened and "Cashbury" chairman Arthur Vardanyan continues to broadcast video messages to investors. For example, in a November 21 video, he said that if the Cachbury sites were blocked, users would not be able to return their funds.