The whereabouts of the Sabirovs are unknown at this point in time and the exact circumstances in which Zygmuntovich was arrested are also unclear.
The three men managed to leave Russia as the financial Pyramid was crumbling.
Zygmuntovich was put on an international wanted list when Russian law enforcement launched a criminal investigation into the fraudulent investment scheme, along with Marat Sabirov and Edward Sabirov, two other associates of Finiko’s founder Kirill Doronin, who has been in jail since July 2021. Russia has already filed an extradition request with the country’s Ministry of Justice which is currently under consideration by the competent authorities in Abu Dhabi. Russian prosecutors told the news outlet they were informed about his detention by the local Interpol bureau. The arrest has been confirmed by Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office.Īccording to the publication, the 24-year-old man, a German national, has been held in a prison in the Gulf state since early September. Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, a co-founder and high-ranking representative of arguably the largest Ponzi scheme in Russia since MMM in the 1990s, has been captured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Russian portal “Business Online” reported on Thursday. UAE Authorities Review Russian Extradition Request for Top Finiko Member The close associate of the crypto pyramid’s mastermind left the Russian Federation as the scam collapsed last summer. One of the founders of Russia’s most notorious Ponzi scheme in recent times, Finiko, is in detention in the United Arab Emirates, according to a Russian media report.
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