OREANDA-NEWS  Turkey has extradited to Russia an accomplice of the Finico financial pyramid, accused of billion-dollar fraud, said Irina Volk, an official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry.

"Today, at Istanbul airport, representatives of the competent authorities of the Republic of Turkey handed over to the Russian police a citizen of our country who was wanted through Interpol channels. She is accused of fraud committed on a particularly large scale as part of a criminal community," Volk told reporters on Friday.

According to the police, from 2019 to 2021, the defendant was a representative of the Finico Internet project, which operated on the principle of a pyramid scheme. "As a result of illegal activities, more than 7,700 victims suffered material damage totaling over 1 billion rubles," said a representative of the Interior Ministry.

Volk reported that the accused had absconded from justice abroad and was detained in a third country.

The investigation of the criminal case on fraud and the organization of a criminal community (Articles 159 and 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) continues.