Once a master of tea ceremonies, and today is the main person involved in large -scale cryptocurrency fraud. Volodymyr Okhotnikov, better known as Lado, together with the team built one of the largest financial pyramids in the world-Fersage, which, according to the investigation, laid over $ 340 million in depositors under the guise of an innovative Defi projection.
US law enforcement officers accused Okhonikov and his accomplices - Lola Ferrari, Gleb Million and Sergiy Maslakov - in creating a Ponzi scheme masked under a decentralized platform. According to the case file, the Smart Contracts of the FORSAGE were deliberately written so as to make a profit only to the organizers who occupied the highest position in the structure.
As a result, most investors remained with nothing: 88% of participants suffered financial losses. Particularly active FORSAGE has been moving in low -living countries - in the Philippines, Nigeria, Venezuela. People have invested the latest savings in a "safe" opportunity to change life that was actually a fiction.
Despite the investigation, the courts and accusations from SEC did not stop. It continues to launch new cryptoprorectives - Ethereum XGold, Meta Force - every time changing branding, but not the point. In his video, he denies guilt, speaks of "revolutionary technologies" and promises overcome.
The formula does not change: the loud words about the AI, metaber and the "new economy" serve as a smoke curtain for the old scheme - attracting as many new depositors as possible and rapid withdrawal.
Okhotnikov's career is an illustration of the path from a distributor of Badi to Blockchain-Proproques, which built a multi-level pyramid, covering millions of people around the world. Today, he and his team are threatening up to 20 years in prison in the United States. However, in the cryptocurrency world, where every new project can be a mask for the old scheme, and there are still those who want to believe in the promises of Lado.
