The organiser of the Astana branch of the financial pyramid «Eolus» has been sentenced to a long prison term. According to the press service of the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM), in 2023 a woman registered the LLP «ENERGY EOLUS QAZAQSTAN» and rented an office with the aim of attracting investments in renewable energy sources supposedly located in the USA.
«Investors' funds were attracted in the form of cryptocurrency, and for accounting and redistribution purposes were recorded on the «energyeolus info» platform, created by foreign hackers. 535 people were attracted who invested their money», the AFM reported.
The court found the woman guilty and sentenced her to 6 years' imprisonment with confiscation of property and banned her from engaging in activities related to attracting citizens' funds for a period of 5 years.
The court also decided to forfeit to the state the confiscated cryptocurrency amounting to 408 thousand USDT (187 million tenge).
Recall, previously the organiser of the financial pyramid «QNET» branch in the Aktobe region received a 5-year prison sentence. He was accused of creating and leading a structural division of a company whose activities were disguised as legitimate network marketing.
Also in the Aktobe region, the organisers of the financial pyramid «Auto Seller» were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. The amount of damage amounted to almost 404 million tenge. The organiser was sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment. His accomplices received from 7 to 8 years' imprisonment.