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The Wikipedia article calls Mavrodi a Soviet and Russian swindler. Most Russians do not agree with this wording and call Mavrodi much stronger words. The name of the founder of "MMM" has not thundered in the media space for a long time, but the news of his death at the age of 62 made the media remember his scams again.

Death

Mavrodi was found that night at a bus stop, he managed to complain to a passerby about chest pain and weakness. In an unconscious state, he was taken to the Botkin hospital, where he died. The official reason is a heart attack. In social networks, people write that karma overtook the swindler, joke about the burial in the pyramid, which will surely collapse in a few years, recall the slogan "MMM" "Everyone is paid for everything." Let's see how Mavrodi started, how he deceived millions of people and what he eventually came to.

Loh is not a mammoth

The company "MMM" appeared in 1988 and was engaged in the sale of imported office equipment. Before turning into a pyramid, MMM changed its direction of activity several times, was engaged in everything that brought income, even Mavrodi organized beauty contests. How and under what conditions Sergei Mavrodi came up with the idea of the first financial pyramid in the history of Russia is unknown, maybe a bag of money fell on his head when he was sitting under a money tree, or the spirit of Charles Ponzi appeared to him, but the plan worked. In the early 90s, MMM tickets could be bought at almost every corner, their cost increased every day, and depositors were promised fabulous income. Inexperienced with capitalism, people bought tickets similar to Soviet chervonets and waited for wealth.

Give you this money! The paper is cut

The number of depositors grew exponentially (up to 10-15 million in a year), the cost of tickets increased 147 times in six months, Mavrodi literally rowed money with a shovel. In August 1994, Mavrodi was arrested for tax evasion. People demanded the release of the "benefactor" and held rallies in his support. As a true swindler, Mavrodi took advantage of this and drove straight from the pre-trial detention center to the Duma on the people's love. Defiantly renouncing his deputy privileges, having received the desired parliamentary immunity, he did not go to a new job and a year later he ceased to be a deputy. Then the strategist decided to jump even higher and wanted to become president. The CEC did not register the candidate, the signatures turned out to be fake. Due to the forgery of signature sheets, Mavrodi had to go into seclusion.

Court

In 1997, MMM went bankrupt, and the founder was already gone. They searched for Mavrodi all over the world, connected the interpol, they thought that he, having been overlaid with millions of rubles, lives in a luxurious villa in Greece, but the fraudster lived under the name Zaitsev in the very center of Moscow. He managed to hide from justice until 2003. He himself says that former FSB officers worked for him, so no one knew about his whereabouts for many years. Being wanted, Mavrodi also did not sit idle and concocted a virtual exchange on the Internet under the guise of a gambling game, or vice versa, a game in the form of an exchange. This time, the victims of the pyramid builder were residents of Europe and the United States.
On January 31, 2003, Mavrodi was arrested, and on May 8, 2007 he was released. The investigation established that the schemer abused the trust of citizens for $110 million, 10.5 thousand people were recognized as victims (according to other estimates, the amount of damage is tens of billions of dollars). Mavrodi was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, and released almost immediately, because the process lasted almost the same.

Lenya's accomplice

MMM-2011

And in Africa mmm

Nevertheless, in Russia and the CIS, a new pyramid did not want to be built, so Mavrodi decided to conquer another world, where they did not yet know what the Russian schemer was capable of. Mavrodi promised to help all mankind so that every Lenya in every country in the world could buy boots for his wife. The poorest countries turned out to be the most gullible, and MMM was most popular in Nigeria. The scheme was the same as in Russia. Hundreds of people on the Internet and on TV told how the "Moors" helped the Moors get rich. Centuries and foremen throughout Nigeria campaigned for "MMM", for which they received a percentage, and new money poured into the pyramid. In 2016, "MMM" in Nigeria burst, but someone really managed to get rich, and someone lost the last.

moscow moor

Then there was a scam with bitcoin, which, according to him, Mavrodi invented a very long time ago, but he just didn’t tell anyone about it. The new cryptocurrency "Mavro" was designed to save humanity from the financial apocalypse and wipe bitcoin's nose. From Mavrodi’s lips such words as “blockchain”, “ether”, “bitcoin” popped out, and everyone heard “scam”, “pyramid”, “deceit”. The new brainchild of Mavrodi did not have success.
It is curious that Mavrodi is also known as a screenwriter and writer. He composed an Internet series that was very popular on the net, according to his script, the horror film "River" was shot, which even received some kind of film award, the film "Pyrammmida", where Mavrodi plays Serebryakov, was filmed based on his book. If all his imagination and energy were spent on writing, and not on financial fraud, then, who knows, maybe today Sergei Mavrodi would be remembered with a kind word.

Sergei Mavrodi, who created the largest financial pyramid in the history of Russia MMM in the nineties, died of a heart attack on March 26, 2018. By the end of his life, he had no savings and property left. Where the money once received is still unknown.

The death of Sergei Mavrodi was due to a banal heart attack. The man, in whose hands was a third of the country's budget, died poor and alone. The circumstances of death and existing family ties were so absurd that he was almost buried next to the homeless.

Circumstances of death

Late at night, an unknown passer-by found Mavrodi at a bus stop complaining of sharp pains in the region of the heart. An ambulance was called and took him to the 67th hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction. They didn’t have time to help, at 6:40 the doctors pronounced the death of the great schemer. Sergei Mavrodi died on March 26, 2018, at the age of 63.

The funeral of Sergei Mavrodi

The funeral took place on March 31st. Before that, the body was in the morgue, none of the relatives was in a hurry to take it away. The participation of his brother Vyacheslav was limited to the phrase that he forbids burying Sergei in the family grave. The deceased had no other relatives.

The employees of the institution began to have thoughts that the corpse would be buried along with the homeless at the expense of the state. However, soon the ex-wife, Elena Pavlyuchenko, took the body.

The circumstances of farewell and burial of Mavrodi are unknown. Details were kept in the strictest confidence. According to unofficial data, the funeral was carried out at the expense of MMM contributors.

According to Wikipedia, the grave is located at the Troekurovsky cemetery, where he was buried in a closed coffin.

last years of life

4 years before his death, Sergei Mavrodi undertook another trip to the construction of the pyramid. This time the company is called MMM Global. Initially, it was aimed at the strengthening cryptocurrency - bitcoin.

A year later, in 2015, the swindler claimed that he was able to bring down the bitcoin rate in an instant due to the fact that most of the trading on the exchange was due to the actions of MMM Global. The success of another financial web was obvious. She has worked in more than 100 countries around the world, for example, the photo below shows happy investors from Nigeria.

Alexander Mokhov, who worked as a lawyer for Mavrodi in 2011-2012, spoke about the last years of the life of a financial fraudster as follows.

“He despised money, calling them cut pieces of paper. He lived according to an individual schedule, went to bed at 10 am, got up at 6 pm, and everyone had to adapt to it. As far as I know, he moved away from all financial fraud and went into literature, wrote poetry and books. Everything that was done after the closure of the second MMM was fakes opened under his name.

Such statements, the lack of financial savings and the funeral, which took place behind closed doors, led to rumors that the death of the schemer was staged.

What's left of Mavrodi

Where the millions of deceived depositors of all the pyramids founded by Mavrodi have gone is unknown. In addition to multimillion-dollar debts, he has nothing. Of the property, only the apartment of the parents, inherited by him and his brother. She continues to be registered with the family due to the fact that she has not been privatized. Otherwise, the bailiffs would have arrested her.

short biography

Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955, his parents are ordinary engineers. Father, originally from Donbass with Ukrainian-Greek roots, died in 1980, mother, Russian, died in 1986, both died of oncology.

Childhood and youth

As a child, the boy was practically no different from his peers. If it were not for the unique memory and good abilities in mathematics, then he would be an ordinary Soviet child. Despite the mathematical mindset, he could not enter the Moscow Physics and Mathematics. Instead, he became a student at MIEM.

Around the same time, together with his younger brother, he began to make and sell audio and video cassettes. In 1983, the OBKhSS was detained for the first time.

Creation of MMM

By the time MMM was created, Sergey already had a certain state that allowed him to start the activity of a financial pyramid. Later it became the largest in the history of modern Russia. In total, 15 million people suffered from its activities.

On February 1, 1994, the shares of the pyramid went on public sale. The company's record profits and phenomenal success were the result of the event's unprecedented size:

15 million investors;
accumulation of a third of the budget of the entire state;
an increase in the value of shares by 127 times.

The financial power of the pyramid was traced in many ways, Mavrodi allowed himself something that had never been done before by any person:

in 1993 congratulates the population on the New Year by buying air time;
in 1992, metro rides are made free for several days;
in news broadcasts, the stock price is first called, and only after that, Moscow time.

Participation in politics

Political activity consisted only in election to deputies and loud statements that could be regarded as fearlessness before the authorities. From the first days, he refused the privileges due to him, in particular:

benefits;
office dacha;
company car with driver.

He comments on his actions with the words that he came into politics only for the sake of parliamentary immunity.

A year later, on October 6, 1995, his status was prematurely terminated. In the future, he tried to run for the presidency of the country, but the Central Election Commission rejected most of the signature sheets, calling them fake. Thus, he could not continue the struggle for the post of head of state.

Rumors about a connection with Berezovsky

There is no reliable information about Berezovsky's connection with Mavrodi. The only contact between them is described in the book of the last "PiraMMMida" and the film based on the novel of the same name. Moreover, according to the scenario, everything that unites Mavrodi and Berezovsky is the desire to “subdue” the country for themselves.

Similar to the situation with Boris Abramovich, there are suggestions that the activities of Mavrodi are partially repeated by Navalny. In particular, the oppositionist receives income from dubious sources, tries to take the presidency and speaks negatively about his opponents. Sergei Panteleevich, by the way, in his comments to the reporter of Komsomolskaya Pravda also spoke sharply about the latter.

Accountability

The black stripe of the biography of Sergei Panteleevich came on December 17, 1997. On this day, Mavrodi was declared on the all-Russian, and 1 year later, on the international wanted list. For 5 years, all the special services of the world could not catch him, there were rumors that he was killed by accomplices or changed his appearance. However, on January 31, 2003 he was detained in Moscow. As it turned out during the investigation, Mavrodi never left the city.

“They couldn’t find me for so long, because their own security service was involved in this, in no way inferior to the one that was looking for me,” the detainee commented.

The litigation process dragged on for several years. Several charges were brought against the perpetrator:

forgery of a passport;
fraud on an especially large scale;
tax avoidance.

As a result, on May 27, 2007, the court sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison, but since he was arrested back in 2003, this period has already expired. A few months later, the swindler was free again. Now only the obligation to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles remained on him. and repay the debt to depositors in the amount of 20 million rubles.

He paid off the debt to the state, but repaid the debts of the deceived depositors from his salary. Before his death, he was officially employed as a consultant to businessman Pavel Molchanov. He received 15,000 rubles for this. per month, with this money and extinguished the debt, according to the laws of the Russian Federation, in the amount of half of their income.

Mavrodi family

After the death of his parents, the younger brother Vyacheslav remained the only close relative. Together they organized the first pyramid, after which their destinies diverged. The elder went on the run, the younger opened another dubious financial institution, but in 2001 he was arrested.

Sergei, was married to Ukrainian Elena Pavlyuchenko. After the arrest and the husband's stay in custody for several years, the couple divorced. Despite this, in 2006 the woman gave birth to a girl, Irina, calling Mavrodi her father.

The figure of the most colossal genius of the scams of modern Russia is still a mystery. He was the founder of several pyramids, wrote books, was engaged in directing, but where all the honestly and dishonestly earned money went is not known. The opinion of Russians about his personality in the history of the country is divided. Some consider Mavrodi a genius who taught people not to trust the first person they meet, others consider him a swindler and a swindler.

Video

Project of the NTV channel: “Mavrodi. The Last Secret"

At school, he won olympiads and was distinguished by a mathematical mindset.

In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM, now the A. N. Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics).

After graduating from the institute, he worked as an engineer-mathematician at a research institute, since 1980 - the head of a group of programmers. At the same time, he was engaged in private production and sale of sound and video recordings, illegal at that time.

In 1981 he retired from the research institute. He was listed in various positions: the last one was a night watchman in the subway.

In 1983, he was arrested for private business activities (sale of illegal video products), but thanks to the amnesty, he served only 10 days.

In 1989 he founded the MMM cooperative. On the basis of it, several dozen commercial structures were created, including OJSC MMM 1994, which became the largest financial pyramid in Russia.

Until 1991, the cooperative was mainly engaged in the trade of computers and office equipment. Then he began to collect money at high interest rates - up to 1000% per annum. The number of the company's investors was, according to various estimates, from 10 to 15 million people.

In August 1994, Sergei Mavrodi was arrested on charges of tax evasion from the income of the Invest-Consulting company he heads. While in custody, he stopped the activities of MMM 1994.

In September 1994, his candidacy was nominated for by-elections to the State Duma from the Mytishchi district of Moscow.

He was released in accordance with the electoral law, which requires equal conditions for all candidates.

In October 1994 he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the first convocation. His mandate began on January 18, 1995.

Sergei Mavrodi did not join any faction and, since his election to this post, he has never attended a single Duma session. On October 6, 1995, his deputy powers were terminated ahead of schedule.

After that, the investigative actions against Mavrodi were resumed, and one more was added to the previous accusations - fraud.

In 1995, he again ran for the Duma from the "People's Capital Party", lost the election.

In January 1996, a group of authorized representatives nominated Sergei Mavrodi as a candidate for the presidency of Russia, but the CEC rejected signature sheets in support of the candidate and refused registration.

In September 1997, the MMM company was declared bankrupt, and Sergei Mavrodi disappeared. In December 1997, he was first put on the national wanted list, and a year later on the international wanted list.

Being on the run in early 1998, Sergei Mavrodi created a new financial pyramid Stock Generation Ltd, which was a virtual exchange. The exchange has existed for about two years.

On January 31, 2003, Sergei Mavrodi was arrested in Moscow in a rented apartment. According to documents found in the apartment, Mavrodi lived in Moscow under the name of a certain Yuri Zaitsev. He was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Fraud on an especially large scale" and "Organization of forgery of documents."

On December 2, 2003, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow found Mavrodi guilty of organizing a forgery of a passport and sentenced him to 13 months in prison.

In January 2004, the criminal case on the fact of tax evasion against Sergei Mavrodi was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

On April 28, 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Sergei Mavrodi to 4.5 years in prison to be served in a penal colony. As an additional measure of punishment, the court established a fine of 10,000 rubles from Mavrodi in favor of the state. In addition, Mavrodi had to pay more than 20 million rubles to depositors.

While the investigation and trial lasted, he served almost the entire sentence imposed by the court. He was kept in a special block of the "Matrosskaya Tishina" pre-trial detention center and was released 25 days after the end of the verdict - on May 22, 2007.

On July 10, 2007, the Moscow City Court considered Mavrodi's appeal against the verdict. The court refused to rehabilitate and terminate the criminal case, leaving the sentence in force in terms of terms of imprisonment, but canceling the fine of 10 thousand rubles.

While in prison, Sergei Mavrodi was engaged in literary work. In 2008, his first book "Temptation" was published, which included 14 short stories. In total, the author has more than 200 of them. In addition, he wrote a novel and several plays. The book was published in a pilot edition of 7,000 copies.

In May 2008, Moscow bailiffs seized the sale of Mavrodi's first book in connection with the initiation of enforcement proceedings against him to pay debts to affected depositors.

In January 2011, Mavrodi again created the MMM-2011 pyramid, which collapsed a few months later. After that, "MMM-2012" was created.

Following the launch of the MMM-2012 project, Sergei Mavrodi announced the creation of the All-Russian Political Party MMM and announced that he himself became its chairman.

In May 2012, a criminal case was opened against Mavrodi again, he was hiding from the authorities.

At the end of January 2014, Sergei Mavrodi announced the introduction of currency "Mavro" (Mavro). In December 2017, his next pyramid collapsed.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

According to the site, Sergei Mavrodi complained of pain in his heart, after which he was urgently taken to the Botkin hospital. Alexander Vlasov, assistant to the founder of the financial pyramid "MMM" Sergei Mavrodi, also confirmed reports of his death.

“Everything that doctors have diagnosed is true. Some further comments will come later. There were also chronic diseases, they were previously discussed, ”said Vlasov.

Mavrodi died at 6:40 in the Botkin hospital. The doctors were embarrassed by the sudden death of the founder of the MMM financial pyramid, so his body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy.

The day before, Mavrodi felt unwell and was urgently hospitalized. Sergei became ill near a bus stop located in the northern administrative district of the capital. A passer-by helped the businessman by calling an ambulance. On March 26, 2018, it became known that Sergei Mavrodi had died.

Sergey Mavrodi became known for creating the largest financial pyramid "MMM". Sergey Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955 in Moscow in the family of an installer and an economist. As a child, he was diagnosed with congenital bilateral heart disease. According to the businessman, he had a phenomenal memory.

Sergei Mavrodi biography

Biography of Sergei Mavrodi. Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955 in Moscow in the family of an installer Panteley Andreevich Mavrodi and an economist Valentina Fedorovna.

Sergey Mavrodi was born with a congenital bilateral heart disease, which is why doctors predicted that he would not live to be eighteen years old.

According to Sergei Mavrodi himself, in childhood he had a phenomenal memory:

“I could literally repeat any passage that was read aloud to me. But then, due to twelve concussions - I was a very restless child! - memory has deteriorated somewhat and from phenomenal has become just good. Well, thank God!"

He graduated from secondary school No. 35 in Moscow, as well as the Children's Art School No. 1 named after. V. A. Serova. During his studies, Sergei Mavrodi was noted as a very talented student with good mathematical abilities, he often won Olympiads.

In 1972, Sergei Mavrodi entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics.

At the institute, he was fond of sambo and became a candidate for master of sports, without losing a single fight (he was the champion of Moscow in the absolute weight category.) On this, he ended his sports career due to the fact that it took too much time. However, there was another reason. “Excessive passion for martial arts is far from being as harmless as it seems. You become physically stronger, but weaker - in spirit. You get used to losing (at least in training). Know the limits of your abilities. An experienced (“beaten”) fighter will never fight several strong opponents at once. Because he knows exactly what it is. He prefers to retreat.

As a result, Sergei Panteleevich successfully graduated from MIEM. “We looked at absenteeism through our fingers. The faculty was considered extremely difficult, the Department of Mathematics at MIEM was then, for a number of reasons, the strongest, perhaps even among all Moscow universities, the level of teaching was very high, so it was a priori assumed that if a person does not go to lectures and seminars, he simply won't pass the exams. It turned out, however, that this is not entirely true. If I managed to get a lecture notes at least a couple of hours before the exam and have time to skim through it, then I passed the exam without problems. Unfortunately, it didn't always work out."

For the first time, Mavrodi was detained for the first time in 1983 for 10 days by the OBKhSS officers “for private entrepreneurial activity” (sale of illegal video recordings).

The MMM cooperative was founded by Sergey Panteleevich in 1989. On its basis, several dozens of commercial structures were also created, including OJSC MMM 1994, which became the largest financial pyramid in Russia.

After several attacks by the authorities, on August 4, 1994, Sergei Mavrodi was arrested on charges of tax evasion from the income of the Invest-Consulting company he heads.

While in custody, Sergei Panteleevich stopped the activities of MMM 1994 and announced that he would run for the State Duma of the Russian Federation and began collecting signatures, two months later the CEC registered him as a candidate for the State Duma. On October 30, he was elected a member of the Russian parliament. However, having become a deputy, he renounced all deputy privileges and salary, thus emphasizing that he went to the deputies only for immunity. He did not attend any meeting of the State Duma, and on the basis of this, a year later, his deputy powers were terminated, relying on the fact that he was engaged in commercial activities. Later, Sergei Mavrodi tried to run again for the State Duma from the "People's Capital Party", but lost the election.

In January 1996, a group of authorized representatives nominated Mavrodi as a candidate for the President of Russia, but the CEC rejected signature sheets in support of the candidate and refused registration. On this fact, a criminal case was even initiated against Sergei Mavrodi, but then it was closed for "lack of corpus delicti." But he failed to participate in the elections.

On December 17, 1997, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put Sergey Mavrodi on the national wanted list, and a year later on the international wanted list.

For more than five years he hid in a rented apartment, lived locked up until 2003 without leaving Moscow. At this time, he created another financial pyramid on the Internet, which covered the whole world - the so-called Stock Generation (SG) virtual stock exchange. It was registered in one of the countries of the Caribbean as a game of chance and had the appropriate license. This project was closed by the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission), based on complaints, they began an investigation and, without proof of guilt, closed their US dollar accounts. Ultimately, the SEC lost the case in Boston court (there was a license, everyone played voluntarily), but it was too late. According to unofficial data, several million people were injured in this event.

On January 31, 2003, Sergei Mavrodi was arrested in Moscow, in a rented apartment on Frunzenskaya Embankment. During the arrest, he was found to have a fake passport in the name of Yuri Zaitsev, a native of St. Petersburg. A little later, after his arrest, he was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Organization of forgery of documents" and "Evasion of taxes and (or) fees from the organization." In January 2004, the criminal case on the fact of tax evasion against Sergei Mavrodi was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. But on February 3, 2004, Mavrodi was charged with fraud. Until January 31, 2006, Sergei Panteleevich got acquainted with 650 volumes (250-270 pages each) of his criminal case, after which the court sessions began.

During the hearings, the prosecutor in the case, Amalia Ustaeva, requested that Mavrodi be sentenced to five years in prison in a penal colony. Of course, she took into account the identity of the defendant, the presence of extenuating circumstances, and taking into account the views of a number of victims. In addition, the civil claims of the victims for compensation for material damage were to be satisfied. “I ask you to satisfy those claims, the amounts of which were established by the preliminary investigation and which have not been changed by the victims,” Ustaeva said.

At the end of April 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Sergei Mavrodi to four years and six months in prison to be served in a penal colony, but he had already served almost the entire term. Also, as an additional measure of punishment, the court established a fine of 10,000 rubles in favor of the state. However, later the Moscow City Court canceled this fine.

On May 22, 2007, the sentence expired. More than 50 media representatives from all over the world gathered to capture the moment of Sergei Mavrodi's release. Investors MMM - both supporters and opponents of Mavrodi - gathered only ten people. Sergei Mavrodi did not want to give any comments to journalists.

In prison, Sergei Panteleevich wrote the novel "The Son of Lucifer". The novel is a separate novel. Every day is a separate short story, a new hero, a new fate, a new story. In total, the book describes 150 days. Also in prison were written "Pyramid", "Prison Diaries" and "Carcer". All his works are posted on the official website of Sergei Mavrodi

Only in Moscow and the region in the middle of 2000, about four hundred “Sergeev Mavrodi” were registered in psychiatric hospitals. This is the largest number of doubles than anyone else.

In 1995, in Novosibirsk, MMM investors beat Mavrodi's double, the error was discovered in time, and the Novosibirsk escaped with minor bruises. In an interview, he stated that he fully understood the attackers, and left this incident without consequences.

On April 7, 2011, the feature film PiraMMMida, based on the story of the same name by Mavrodi, was released. (Distributor film company Universal Pictures International.) The role of Sergei Mavrodi (in the film he is Sergei Mamontov) was played by Alexei Serebryakov.

The personality of S.P. Mavrodi, as well as his activities, still cause extremely ambiguous assessments in various circles of society. He is equally often called both a financial genius and a swindler. Mavrodi himself believes that:

“Only the scale of the deeds is important. their absolute value. The sign doesn't matter. A minus can easily change to a plus, and vice versa. But zero never changes for anything.

New project of Sergey Mavrodi MMM

Sergey Mavrodi lost in the fight against the authorities in 1994, in January 2011 he implemented a new project MMM 2011, later it was renamed MMM 2012 and eventually got the name MMM, which is successfully developing all over the world, to this day! The goal of the project, according to Sergey Panteleevich himself, is “financial apocalypse”. Sergei Mavrodi answered many questions regarding his biography in numerous interviews. Today it became known that Sergei Mavrodi died in the Botkin hospital.

Sergei Mavrodi in the program "Minaev LIVE". Answers to the most important questions on MMM.

On Monday, March 26, a businessman died in Moscow at the age of 63 Sergey Mavrodi, known for his machinations with the MMM financial pyramid, RIA Novosti reported with reference to his assistant Alexander Vlasov. He was taken to one of the city hospitals on Monday night with complaints of heart pain. Doctors diagnosed a heart attack. The doctors failed to save him, death came early in the morning.

At one time, Mavrodi founded the MMM joint-stock company, which is considered the classic and largest financial pyramid in the history of Russia in terms of the number of victims and damage.

Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Dossier

Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955 in Moscow in the family of an installer Pantelei Andreyevich Mavrodi and economist Valentina Fedorovna Mavrodi. He was born with a congenital bilateral heart defect, which is why doctors predicted that he would not live to be eighteen years old.

Education

After school, he dreamed of entering Baumanka, but failed in the entrance exams. In 1972 he entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. At the institute, he was fond of sambo and became a candidate for master of sports, without losing a single fight (he was the champion of Moscow in the absolute weight category.)

After graduating from MIEM, he worked for two years at a closed research institute.

Entrepreneurial activity

At the Institute, for the first time, he began to make and sell copies of audio and video materials.

In 1983, he was detained for 10 days by the OBKhSS officers “for private business activities” (sale of illegal video recordings).

In 1989, he opened the MMM cooperative, which included dozens of commercial structures. In addition to him, the founders of the company were brother Vyacheslav and his brother's wife Olga Melnikova. The name of the cooperative included the first letters of the names of the founders. The most profitable and most famous of the firms was the joint-stock company MMM. On its basis, several dozens of commercial structures were also created, including OJSC MMM 1994, which became the largest financial pyramid in Russia.

On August 4, 1994, Mavrodi was arrested on charges of tax evasion from the income of the Invest-Consulting company he heads.

In the 2000s created another financial pyramid on the Internet - the Stock Generation (SG) virtual stock exchange. It was registered in one of the Caribbean countries as a game of chance and had the appropriate license. According to unofficial data, there were several million affected by its activities.

In January 2011, Mavrodi implemented a new project, MMM 2011, which was later renamed MMM 2012 and eventually received the name MMM. According to Mavrodi, the goal of the project is “financial apocalypse”.

In 2014, Mavrodi created the MMM-Global project, aimed at African countries. Millions of residents of Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt have become investors in MMM Global. In December 2017, MMM in Nigeria suspended operations for a month, citing "high system load". Mavrodi began to write letters denouncing journalists and experts, switched the settlements from local naira to bitcoins and announced his intention to resume operations on January 14. In addition to African countries, he began to build a pyramid in Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, including India and China. Then MMM appeared in the USA, Israel, Italy and France.

Political activity

While in custody, Mavrodi stopped the activities of MMM 1994 and announced that he would run for the State Duma of the Russian Federation and began collecting signatures, two months later the CEC registered him as a candidate for the State Duma.

On October 30, he was elected a member of the Russian parliament. Having become a deputy, he renounced all deputy privileges and salaries, thereby emphasizing that he went to the deputies only for immunity. He did not attend any meeting of the State Duma, and on the basis of this, a year later, his deputy powers were terminated.

Later, Sergei Mavrodi tried to run again for the State Duma from the "People's Capital Party", but lost the election.

In January 1996, a group of authorized representatives nominated Mavrodi as a candidate for the presidency of Russia, but the CEC rejected signature sheets in support of the candidate and refused registration.

On August 3, 2012, Mavrodi announced the creation of the political party "MMM" ("Mi Maemo Metu") in Ukraine, which nominated Denis Pushilin as a candidate for deputy in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada in the 94th constituency of the Kiev region.

Mavrodi intended to participate in the 2018 presidential elections. He said, “I will move. Without any doubt! I want to help my Fatherland, and I know how to do it. So, this is my direct civic duty.”

At the moment, there are also several more systems operating that use a similar principle and symbolism of "MMM". There is no exact data on the number of participants in these systems, but in 2012 against one of these - "MMM-2011" - a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of illegal business and attempted fraud.

International search and punishment for crimes

On December 17, 1997, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced Sergei Mavrodi, first on the all-Russian, and a year later, on the international wanted list.

On January 31, 2003, Sergei Mavrodi was arrested in Moscow, in a rented apartment on Frunzenskaya Embankment. During the arrest, he was found to have a fake passport in the name of Yuri Zaitsev, a native of St. Petersburg. On December 2, 2003, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow found Mavrodi guilty of organizing a forgery of a passport and sentenced him to one year and one month in prison.

A little later, after his arrest, he was charged under the article "Evasion of taxes and (or) fees from the organization." According to Mavrodi himself, for 8 years his own security service helped him to hide from the investigation. The criminal case on the fact of tax evasion against Sergei Mavrodi was terminated in January 2004 due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

February 3, 2004 Mavrodi was charged with a new charge of fraud. Until January 31, 2006, he got acquainted with 650 volumes (250-270 pages each) of his criminal case, after which the court sessions began. At the end of April 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Sergei Mavrodi to four years and six months in prison to be served in a penal colony, but he had already served almost the entire term. Also, as an additional measure of punishment, the court established a fine of 10,000 rubles in favor of the state. However, later the Moscow City Court canceled this fine. Mavrodi's sentence expired on May 22, 2007.

Books

In prison, Mavrodi wrote the novel "The Son of Lucifer", as well as other works - "Pyramid", "Prison Diaries" and "Carcer".

Family

In 1993-2005 was married to a native of Ukraine Elena Pavlyuchenko, the owner of several titles of various beauty contests.