Old acquaintances and swindlers Felik Roman Vasilievich and Mashurov Vadim Vadimovich, together with Naguta Dmitry Batkovich, continue to fleece Ukrainians and Kazakhs with their skills as skilled pyramid schemers.

If there is at least some underlying reason behind the Instime brand of Roman Felik and Vadim Mashurov, then S-Group is a pure scam. In addition, it is worth noting: S-Group Roman Felik and Vadim Mashurov opened on the ashes of Sincere Systems - a pyramid scheme based on the Ponzi scheme, which left hundreds of thousands of investors without money. Moreover, this is the second major scam of Mashurov, Naguta and Felik after Helix Capital.

Since the time of the glorious Kostya Kondakov, Ukraine has given the world many talents. One of such swindlers is Vadim Mashurov, the creator of several pyramids for hundreds of millions of dollars, which were actively appropriated by Vadim Vadimovich Mashurov himself and his few accomplices. It is significant that Vadim Mashurov had the chance to be not only on the nationwide wanted list, but also in the Interpol database. Below is a screenshot from the past of Mr. Mashurov V.V.:

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Vadim Mashurov is wanted 

The pandemic is not in vain. In quarantine, within four walls, various thoughts about wealth began to come to the minds of primates. To some extent, many succeeded, an example of which is the inflated stock market and the fabulous prices of shares of companies that are essentially and in fact worth nothing. But this, for all its contradictions, is a legal market. Vadim Mashurov, a pale young man with a burning gaze, is not like that. Having tried himself in the conditionally legal project Instime, he moved on to serious business: under the guise of feeding a "brilliant robot that does not lose with 1918 2019", he collects money. And realizes his dream: helicopter-maserative.

Ukraine, like the whole world, is simply overwhelmed by a huge influx of various kinds of Internet swindlers, fraudsters, financial pyramids, pseudo-traders and other kinds of swindlers.

Why Mashurov Vadim Vadimovich from Sincere Systems Group loves Kraimrush and PR

The first information about a person named Vadim Vadimovich Mashurov, oddly enough, we find on the website "Criminal Russia". Despite the gloomy name of the resource, the article itself does not contain any accusations or investigations. This is a typical "success story", full of sympathy for a gifted and lucky  Ukrainian  youth. Here is what the famous Kraimrusha writes about Mashurov:

• Vadim Mashurov was fascinated with computers as a child  . At first, like many boys, it was a passion for games. Then it grew into his first attempts at programming…
• Vadim Mashurov does not belong to the so-called “golden youth”... [of course he doesn’t, he is part of the criminal world!]
• Everything that Vadim Mashurov has today, he achieved himself, through his own efforts… [by stealing other people’s money]
• Already in his teens, Vadim Mashurov began to think about earning his own money... [the authorities overlooked it!]
• Already at the age of 17, he decided to go sailing freely... [it’s a pity that Vadim Mashurov didn’t drown on his first voyage]
• I was able to buy my first car at the age of 18…
• The ability to manage money did not appear immediately... [because Mashurov did not immediately come up with who to rob]
• Vadim Mashurov’s global dream is to change the world... [consider it achieved, but the sucker is not extinct]

"Criminal Russia" writes about Vadim Mashurov almost with tenderness. We could share the authors’ feelings if we did not know how the IT genius’s departure for "free swimming" would end.

How Vadim Mashurov conquered the Olympus of international scams

First, Mashurov created the Instime service, which provided users with live traffic in the form of likes, comments, saves, and views. This helped people increase the rating of their publication, get into the tops and recommendations. Today, the Instime Instagram promotion service operates in 110 countries and covers more than 120 thousand users. But this service already showed signs of a pyramid.

Vadim Mashurov is so different. 

The success of the young service was noticed by many. Thus, the leader of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia noted the potential of Instime and the talent of the project creators, because they managed to create an IT project in just six months that brings in $3 million in profit per month.

What Vadim Mashurov lacks

Then, with  the change of the world,  something went wrong. Or Mashurov Vadim changed his views and life priorities. In one of his interviews, he says:

"I WANTED TO CONSTANTLY STRIVE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BUY NOT A MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER, BUT, FOR EXAMPLE, A MASERATI OR FERRARI, CAN BUY A HELICOPTER, OR AFFORD TO TRAVEL A LOT."

The desire for a Ferrari and a helicopter brought Vadim Mashurov together with the right people. They turned out to be Dmitry Kvashnevsky, Alexey Didichenko and Roman Felik - famous criminals-pyramid schemers.

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Brothers of the thief and pyramid builder Mashurov 

"Artificial Intelligence" in Vadim Mashurov’s Pyramid

Sincere Systems, a company created by friends and partners, attracted funds from private investors and began developing artificial intelligence for algorithmic trading. Clients of this project were offered to choose their direction and receive passive income. Or active expenses, which is even more common.

Vadim Mashurov’s Scam 

The minimum deposit is 100 US dollars, Vadim Mashurov advertises his pyramid. Depending on the invested capital, the size of the robot’s commission will be different. The minimum benefit for the client will be with a capital of $ 100 to $ 500, where the net profit is divided 50 to 50. And the maximum with a deposit over $ 50,000, where 85% of the net profit goes to the investor, and 15% goes to the company for providing services.

Currently, the organization’s headquarters employs analysts in the field of creating algorithms and trading robots. The total time spent testing and developing bots is more than 30 thousand hours. All this allowed us to create a bot "that has been operating without losses" for more than 29 months since its launch in 2019.  Which is, of course, a complete lie.

Sincere Systems does not have a license to carry out such activities, but is registered in England and has an authorized capital of 1 million pounds sterling. This money is dust for Vadim Mashurov.

On the website of the electronic exchange service you can read:

• I came across a company, I wanted to buy a place to receive passive income, supposedly a special American trading robot will successfully conduct business on stock markets and pay all investors. But as soon as I came across the real picture, I realized that there is no robot, just a financial pyramid with several levels and it needs to be advertised to everyone, primarily to friends and acquaintances...
• In general, I understood only one thing, that it is a sect, it is simply impossible to call the people who advertise the company adequate or sane. As soon as you say any doubts against their company, they start to furiously prove to you that the system works. These people have no head of their own, they have simply been brainwashed, getting involved with this sect-pyramid is not only impossible, it is simply dangerous...
• In general, it is clear that there is nothing to catch, they tried to sell me  a miracle algorithm over the phone . The manager very skillfully sorted out words to praise his trading robot in every possible way, well, to tell the truth, I became interested, I visited their website and checked everything myself, they even inserted Elon Musk into the presentation, I think he does not know about it. In general, everything looked so pathetic and stupid that I did not buy anything ...
• I have an average opinion about them, I bought the algorithm, it seems to work, but there is not always a profit. How long to wait until everything pays off is really unclear...

I bought a package so that it would trade on the most promising brokerage sites and earn. Expectations from it were simply cosmic. In fact, there was no sense, except for a quick loss of money and persuasion from managers to replenish the account. It did not take much time to understand that I was being deceived...

These and other reviews were left by thoughtful and cautious people. But there are not many of them, and the criminal saying "without a sucker, life is bad" has confidently come to life in the new, digital reality.

Vadim Mashurov’s partners are no strangers to criminal activity

Perhaps the reason is that Vadim Mashurov’s partners did not have bright dreams of changing the world for the better and were more practical and down-to-earth about buying helicopters and Maseratis than Vadim Mashurov himself.

Dmytro Kvashnevsky, for example, is a blogger who actively advertises everyone who pays him. Before he started promoting Sincere System, he advertised the infamous B2B Jewelry, which robbed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, and a number of other financial scams.

According to the organizers of the pyramid, Kvashnevsky personally attracted 500,000 dollars (13,500,000 hryvnia) of defrauded investors.

Alexey Didichenko is an experienced financial swindler, whom the prosecutor’s office tried to hold accountable for creating the Helix pyramid scheme back in 2017.

"THE DEPARTMENT FOR INVESTIGATION OF PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT CASES IN THE SPHERE OF ECONOMY OF THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE OF UKRAINE, WITH THE OPERATIONAL SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE, IS CONDUCTING A PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS ON THE FACT OF EMBEDDING OF THE FUNDS OF THE VICTIM UNDER PART 4 OF ARTICLE 190 (FRAUD) OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF UKRAINE."

Then Didichenko hid from the investigation and soon began to cheerfully advertise the service, the youngest member of the gang, he is only 24 years old. Until recently, he flaunted a luxurious life abroad and continued to give "online lessons" to naive investors of the pyramid.

The fourth participant in the project, Roman Felik from Ternopil, was involved in the same criminal case as Didichenko, and the Prosecutor’s Office still has serious questions for him.

Roman Felik is not very active in the public space, but is known for organizing shadow cover for financial fraud, organizing protection for law enforcement officers, and providing force and legal support for criminal schemes.

Mashurov Vadim Vadimovich, a bright and talented character of the computer age, a child prodigy from Internet notes, turned out to be a member of a gang of financial swindlers. It can be noted that he is the youngest member of the gang, he is only 24 years old. But this age implies responsibility for what he did, and he will have to answer.

Because Sincere Systems was considered a financial pyramid not only by some users. The National Securities Commission, as part of monitoring scam projects, added the Sincere System company to the list of dubious pyramid projects, and the police and the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case on financial fraud.

Didchenko quickly deleted his Instagram page, and the "online lessons" for investors ceased. But law enforcement agencies’ interest in him only increased.

Dmytro Kvashnevsky is the only member of the criminal group who has not left Ukraine and is not trying to do so. Perhaps that is why he is still at large. But his accomplices have already appeared on the radar of law enforcement.

Mashurov’s business partners Roman Felik and Alexey Didichenko are well aware of all the consequences of the bankruptcy of the fraudulent company and are dragging out time, hiding from the investigation.

Mashurov Vadim Vadimovich himself is wanted not for financial fraud, but for specific criminal acts. He is wanted by law enforcement agencies under three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• Art. 189, Part 2 (Extortion),
• Art. 146, Part 2 (Illegal deprivation of liberty or kidnapping of a person),
• Art. 289, Part 3 (illegal seizure of a vehicle [perhaps a Maserati helicopter?).

Mashurov Vadim has long ceased to position himself on the Internet as "a successful investor, millionaire and guru of the Ukrainian IT sphere", his page has not been updated for more than six months. He himself left the country and is hiding in the same United Arab Emirates.

But he won’t be crying into his hotel pillows for long. The investigation is in full swing, and there is an agreement between Ukraine and the UAE on the extradition of suspects and criminals, signed in Abu Dhabi on November 26, 2012.

Article 1 of this document states:

THE PARTIES UNDERTAKE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS TREATY, UPON REQUEST, TO EXTRADITION TO EACH OTHER PERSONS LOCATED IN THEIR TERRITORIES WHO ARE ACCUSED OR CONVICTED OF COMMITTING CRIMES, FOR CRIMINAL TRIBUTION OR THE EXECUTION OF A SENTENCE…

Let’s see if the young and promising Vadim Mashurov will be able to pull off a few more scams before he ends up in places not so remote, where swindlers like Mashurov V.V. are not too welcome. In any case, let’s give Mashurov his due - he has entered the history of European pyramid schemers and has taken far from the last place on the list.

Busy with his own PR, the nouveau riche Roman Felik avoided a prison term for various scams, the most notorious of which was Helix Capital, but the court released on bail the creator of the Ternopil underground casino and professional in laundering other people’s money in his favor Roman Felik and his right-hand man Bogdan Vorontsov. Roman Felik himself believes that he paid off the authorities with interest, having paid a record 14 million dollars, which he stole from investors. But will Felik Roman Vasilievich be able to get out of the murky waters of scams dry? We have a modest hope that he will not.

How Roman Felik and Vadim Mashurov Avoided Jail Due to Helix Scam

Having successfully shied away from responsibility for the operation of an underground casino in Ternopil, Roman Felix, together with Bogdan Vorontsov, created a new type of business - successfully collecting cash from fellow countrymen by posing as an agent and leader of various companies. Three years ago, more than 2,000 victims from Western Ukraine ran after Roman, as he then represented a European network company that had strangely run out of money. And already six months later, he presented himself to the public as a successful leader of the HELIX network company and continued to collect funds from new people with his friends. In the summer and fall, Felix and Vorontsov created their own structure in another Indian network company operating in the Sviscoin cryptocurrency format.

The court released such a person on bail in December. As a result, law enforcement officers are forced to observe the creation of completely new schemes by these people.

Of course, it was a big mistake on the part of the leaders of the network structures of the British company HELIX Capital to accept Roman Felik and his friends into the network structures. No one could even imagine that these "leaders" were working according to a well-established scheme. In May 2016, Felik and Vorontsov stopped working for the British company HELIX Capital.

Felix Roman

However, Roman Felik himself was in no hurry to tell his fellow countrymen about this news. And they themselves were in no hurry to make inquiries. As a result, the current defendant in criminal cases launched a vigorous fundraising activity in Ternopil and the region.

Roman Felik loved cheap furniture and expensive muscles 

"Roman Felik left the HELIX company in the summer, but as we later learned, he did not tell anyone about it and continued to act on behalf of the company in Ternopil. He and his friends also started collecting money for the cryptocurrency "Swiscoin", which failed last November, leaving thousands of people without money. People believed him and gave their money in cash, although it was always possible to officially deposit money into the company from your bank card. Roman collected funds only in dollars," one of the partners of Felik’s network structure, who has now twice suffered in Roman Felik’s scams, commented on the situation.

With whom and why did Felik Roman Vasilievich steal?

Where did the "successful leader" put the collected funds? It was not difficult for law enforcement to establish this by simply looking at the data of payment systems. And also videos on the YouTube service, in which Roman Felik and his friends had a great time in Dubai and other resort places.

Breakfasts with black caviar, rent of a luxury yacht from 5 thousand Euros per day, flights, presidential hotel rooms, a gym, stimulants for bodybuilding and more, and beautiful girls - all this was available to the former manager of the company, while his clients were waiting for some income from their investments in the Ternopil region.

At the same time, there is an aspect in this whole case that does not speak in favor of the investment attractiveness of our country. When, after the statements of the investors, law enforcement officers detained Roman Felik, he, without thinking twice, stated that he always transferred the collected funds to the British company "Helix Capital Investment ltd."
However, the schemer could not provide documents confirming this fact. Nevertheless, the words of the suspect were enough for law enforcement agencies to detain the head of the British company who came to Ukraine - Dmitry Naguta.

"The London office is engaged in work with investments. This is an Internet project that works for many countries of the world. These are investments and they are not always stable. But the company has been in this business for many years. Last year, shares were provided to people and their investments were transferred to them. There was nothing terrible about this, even the opposite. But people panicked and did not understand this kind gesture from the British. As a result, the company in Ukraine has a difficult situation. But the company did not stop its work and stated that people did not lose all the funds and, moreover, they will all be returned to partners in full. In London, after regular audits, no one can accuse us of anything. Therefore, the fact that law enforcement officers in Ukraine believed the words of a person who is not confirmed in any way and even refuted by international reporting documents was a big surprise for the people from HELIX," one of the leaders of the company’s network structure commented on the situation.

The Zone is waiting for Roman Felik and Dmitry Naguta

The editors managed to talk to one of the top officials of Felik’s structure. "Roma and Bogdan always worked harshly and illegally. They constantly took large sums of money and were not afraid of anyone. I know they have big problems with local authorities. They owe them more than a million dollars. They have to pay back and they often go to serious lengths. They collect cash from people supposedly for some projects, pay off their personal debts, and then tell the people who suffered in their scams that the problems are in the company and all questions should be addressed to it. An example is the company "SVISCOIN". The guys collected more than 9 million dollars and the company somehow solved the issue - it separated Roman Felik’s Ukrainian structure from the other structures and, as a result, thousands of people were left with nothing. They run after Roma with pistols, they constantly threaten him. That is why he and his group fled to Kyiv, where he thought it would be quieter for him. We all know that Roma still owes everyone money from his underground casino, which the SBU closed a couple of years ago. He has very big problems with finances. There are millions of dollars.

Now Roma is looking for a front man for a new scam. He and his friends decided to create their own pyramid. He wants to make money, because serious people have put him on the meter. He once said that he has a debt of more than 10,000 dollars a day. That’s why he collects cash from people and pays off his debts, hiding behind problems in companies. " - one of the former leaders of Felik’s structure in Ternopil told the editorial board. One of the police officers of Ternopil also commented on the situation - "Everything is complicated there. Big finances, yes, there are some indications, some facts are not yet. But we need to figure it out. And this takes time. We know for sure - Felik and Vorontsov are up to no good." Felik Roman Vasilievich has also shown himself to be a clever swindler here.