| 词条 | Sergei Mavrodi |
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| name = | image = File:S Mavrodi 2012.jpg | caption = Sergei in 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1955|08|11}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2018|03|26|1955|08|11}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | nationality = Russian | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = Russian financial fraudster and previously a deputy of the State Duma | notable_works = }} Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi ({{lang-ru|Серге́й Пантеле́евич Мавро́ди}}; 11 August 1955 – 26 March 2018) was a Russian financial fraudster, financial criminal and previously a deputy of the State Duma. He was the founder of the МММ, a scheme that defrauded millions of people around the globe. In 2007 Sergei Mavrodi was convicted in a Russian court of defrauding 10,000 investors out of 110 million rubles ($4.3 million).[1][2][3] Mavrodi claimed he was not the beneficiary of the donations and that he was not used to a flamboyant lifestyle. The charge of which he was later convicted was tax fraud[4] though he claimed that the MMM scheme was not a business, but instead a mutual donation program which there is no law against.[5] There were interviews after his release where he claimed MMM Global was behind the bitcoin price rally.[6] Early lifeMavrodi was born in Moscow. His mother is Russian. His father is half Greek (therefore his name is Mavrodi), half Ukrainian.[7] During his childhood he was diagnosed with a bilateral heart defect.[8] Mavrodi recalled that in school he was proficient in mathematics and physics.[8] He studied at the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.[8] In 1983 he was arrested for ten days due to illegal economic activity.[8] MMM activitiesIn 1989 Mavrodi founded MMM.[8][9][10] He was then imprisoned on charges of financial fraud involving MMM.[15] In 1994 Mavrodi was elected deputy of State Duma obtaining parliamentary immunity, just three weeks after he was released from prison. He ran in a by-election in the Mytishchinsky District to replace deputy Andrei Aidzerdzis, who was gunned down earlier that year.[11] Mavrodi took nearly 27% of the votes with a turnout of only 30%.[11] Mavrodi declared MMM bankrupt on 22 December 1997, then disappeared, and was on the run until his arrest in 2003.[18] On 28 April 2007, a Moscow court sentenced him to four and a half years in a penal colony. The court also fined him 10,000 rubles ($390).[12] In January 2011, Mavrodi launched another pyramid scheme called MMM-2011, asking investors to buy so-called Mavro currency units. He frankly described it as a pyramid, adding "It is a naked scheme, nothing more ... People interact with each other and give each other money. For no reason!"[13] Mavrodi said that his goal with MMM-2011 was to destroy the current financial system, which he considered unfair, which would allow something new to take its place. MMM-2011 was able to function openly as Ponzi schemes and financial pyramids are not illegal under Russian law.[14] In May 2012 he froze the operation and announced that there would be no more payouts.[15] In 2011 he launched a similar scheme in India, called MMM India, again stating clearly that the vehicle was a pyramid.[16] He has also launched MMM in China.[17] He was reported to be trying to expand his operations into Western Europe, Canada, and Latin America.[14] As of September 2015 it had spread rapidly in South Africa with a claimed 1% per day or 30% per month interest rate scheme[18] and warnings from both the South African and Russian Communist Parties for people not to participate in it.[19] In early 2016, he continued the same model in Zimbabwe (the accounts were frozen in September 2016), and later, in Nigeria (accounts frozen in December 2016).[20][21] MMM Nigeria resumed activities on 13 January 2017.[22] Stock GenerationIn 1998 Mavrodi created Stock Generation,[23][24] allegedly a classic pyramid scheme presented as a "virtual stock market game".[1] The website ran from 1998 to early 2000. It was based around trading non-existent companies' stocks in a form of the "stock exchange game" on the company's site, stockgeneration.com. Despite a bold-letter warning on the main page that the site was not a real stock exchange, between 20,000 and 275,000 people, according to various estimates, fell for the promised 200% returns and lost their money. According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), losses of victims were at least US$5.5 million.[25] The Massachusetts district court initially found that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was unable to cite Stock Generation's founders and owners for securities violations. However, the United States Court of Appeals reversed this decision in 2001, concluding that the SEC alleged sufficient facts to state a triable claim.[26] In 2003 the SEC obtained permanent injunctions against SG Ltd. and relief defendants SG Perfect and SG Trading, which profited from the disbursement of funds fraudulently gained by SG Ltd.[27][28] DeathMavrodi died of heart problems at the age of 62 at a hospital in Moscow.[29][30][31] The funeral was funded by the investors of МММ-2011.[32] BookIn 2008 Mavrodi published the book Temptation. In May 2008, bailiffs arrested Mavrodi's rights to this book. Seven thousand copies of the book were published.[3][33] FilmA feature film The PyraMMMid, based on the story of the same name by Mavrodi was released in Russia on 7 April 2011. The role of Sergei Mavrodi (in the film he is called Sergei Mamontov) is played by Aleksei Serebryakov. TheaterHis play was performed in theatres. The director of the play - Maria Kuznetsova.[34][35] References1. ^1 "Sergei Mavrodi Convicted of Fraud in MMM Trial", by Kevin O’Flynn, The St. Petersburg Times. 2. ^"Mavrodi's Internet-Pyramide Commapsed" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125181755/http://www.gazeta.ru/piramidos.shtml |date=25 January 2011 }} {{ru icon}} 3. ^1 ITAR-TASS {{Dead link|date=May 2016}} 4. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/out-of-russia-mythical-money-helps-to-buy-voters-1445499.html|title=Out of Russia:Mythical money helps to buy voters], by ANDREW HIGGINS Friday 28 October 1994.] 5. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20160828023629/http://mmm-a-revolution.blogspot.com.ng/p/sergey-panteleevich-mavrodi-born-august.html titles=MMM is a Revolution For Each And Everyone Of You.To Fight Against Financial Slavery], 6. ^[https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/11/09/2144388/im-no-crook-declares-mmm-scamster-while-claiming-credit-for-the-bitcoin-price-spike I’m no crook,’ declares MMM scamster, while claiming credit for the Bitcoin price spike], by Izabella Kaminska 9 November 2015. 7. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnmgnDqKL9c Бизнес-секреты: Сергей Мавроди] 8. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21rampell.html "A Scheme With No Off Button"] by Catherine Rampell, NY Times 9. ^"Sergey Mavrodi" {{ru icon}} 10. ^{{Cite web |first=Claire |last=Bigg |title=Jailed For Not Paying A Fine, Ponzi Scheme Founder Plots 'Financial Apocalypse' |date=15 March 2012 |work=RFE/RL |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/mmm_mavrodi_plots_financial_apocalypse/24517183.html }} 11. ^1 2 {{cite web | url =http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/1994/11/article/mmms-mavrodi-voted-into-duma/346594.html |title=MMM's Mavrodi Voted Into Duma|work=The Moscow Times| accessdate =30 March 2018}} 12. ^1 Moscow court sentences pyramid scheme head Mavrodi to 4.5 yrs 13. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2042721,00.html|title=Why is Russia's Bernie Madoff Back in Business? |last=Shuster|first=Simon|date=15 January 2011|work=Time Magazine|accessdate=7 September 2012}} 14. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/NC20Ag01.html|title=Mavrodi's Ponzi comeback seeks financial apocalypse|last=Bigg|first=Claire|date=20 March 2012|work=Asia Times|accessdate=7 September 2012}} 15. ^{{cite news|url=http://rt.com/news/mmm-mavrodi-ponzi-scheme-715/|title=Fool me twice, shame on me: Russians fall once again for notorious Ponzi scheme|date=2 June 2012|work=RT|accessdate=7 September 2012}} 16. ^{{cite news|url=http://indrus.in/articles/2012/08/31/mmm_scheme_heads_to_india_17331.html|title=MMM scheme heads to India|last=Lobazina|first=Alina|date=1 September 2012|work=Russia & India Report|accessdate=7 September 2012}} 17. ^http://chinammm.net/cn/ 18. ^"MMM South Africa Scheme" 19. ^{{cite web | url=http://mg.co.za/article/2015-09-10-rich-pickings-for-russian-con-artist | title=Rich pickings for Russian con artist | publisher=Mail and Guardian | date=11 September 2015 | accessdate=20 September 2015 | author=de Wet, Phillip}} 20. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.svoboda.org/a/28068695.html|title=African pyramids of Mavrodi|last=Khazov-Kassia|first=Sergey|date=22 October 2016|work=RFE/RL Russian|accessdate=22 October 2016}} {{ru icon}} 21. ^http://www.somtoo.com/2016/12/breaking-news-mmm-nigeria-finally.html 22. ^"mmmnigeria reopens" 23. ^MMM Corporation {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814171711/http://www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/MMM.htm |date=14 August 2010 }} by Peter Symes 24. ^[https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/stock.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set= "Money For Nothing"], by Dan Brekke,Wired Magazine, Issue 8.09, Sep 2000 25. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17129.htm|title=SG Limited: Lit. Rel. No. 17129 / September 14, 2001|website=www.sec.gov|access-date=25 January 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202133014/https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17129.htm|archivedate=2 February 2017|df=}} 26. ^Appeal of SEC vs. Stock Generation, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 27. ^[https://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/claims/sgltd.htm SG Ltd. (Stock Generation Ltd.) et al.] 28. ^[https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18181.htm Securities and Exchange Commission v. SG Limited et al., (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, No. 00-11141-GAO)], U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Release No.. 18181 / 9 June 2003 29. ^{{cite news|title=Sergei Mavrodi, 90s Ponzi scheme mastermind, dies in Moscow hospital|url=http://tass.com/society/996107|accessdate=26 March 2018|work=TASS|date=26 March 2018}} 30. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | url =https://ria.ru/economy/20180326/1517279045.html |title="Мы можем многое". Что обещал россиянам Сергей Мавроди|publisher=RIA Novosti| language=Russian| accessdate =26 March 2018}} 31. ^{{cite news | title= Russian Ponzi Scheme Operator Mavrodi Dies at Age 62| url= https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/03/26/world/europe/ap-eu-obit-sergei-mavrodi.html| author= Associated Press|date=26 March 2018 | work= The New York Times |publisher= A.G. Sulzberger| accessdate= 27 March 2018 }} 32. ^{{cite web | url =https://ria.ru/society/20180330/1517618119.html?referrer_block=index_daynews4_1 |title=Сергея Мавроди похоронят на деньги вкладчиков "МММ-2011"|publisher=RIA Novosti| language=Russian| accessdate =30 March 2018}} 33. ^Сергей Мавроди. Искушение. Москва, Р7осмэн, 2008. 34. ^http://xn----8sbeacmc3a6aqceshilf1g.xn--p1ai/spektakli/spektakl-golos/ 35. ^http://theatreyalta.com/event/2980/ External links
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