The Bank of Russia in 2022 revealed about two thousand financial pyramids

In 2021, 2.3 times fewer pyramid schemes were detected.

The Central Bank of Russia in 2022 identified about 5,000 companies with signs of illegal activity, a DOFA correspondent reports.

According to Valery Lyakh, director of the Central Bank’s department for combating unscrupulous actions, about two thousand of the identified companies are financial pyramids. In 2021, 2.3 times fewer such organizations were identified.

There is also an increase in the detection of the number of “black creditors”, they were found about 1.7 thousand people.

The Director of the Department of the Central Bank noted that the Bank of Russia has learned to “quite quickly” to find illegal schemes. Information about them is published on the website and transferred to law enforcement agencies. Internet resources with these schemes are blocked.

According to Mr. Lyakh, when the scammers realize that they have “lit up”, they abandon the project and open a new one. Often they also open several small parallel projects, which affects the statistics.

Almost 96% of the pyramid schemes identified in Russia operated on the Internet. The same applies to 97% of illegal professional participants and 43% of illegal creditors. Almost half of the pyramids attracted payments in cryptocurrencies.