The Central Bank recorded an increase in the number of financial pyramids and other illegal organizations

In 2022 the Bank of Russia discovered almost 5 thousand subjects with signs of illegal activity (companies, projects, individual entrepreneurs, etc.). This is 85% more than a year earlier.

Including 2017 financial pyramids were revealed (an increase of 2.3 times). Almost half of them accepted payments in cryptocurrencies, slightly less used foreign payment services. Over a third of the pyramids operated in the form of economic games. The number of black creditors increased by almost 1.8 times over the year. Every fifth illegally used in its name words indicating the implementation of microfinance activities. The growth in the number of illegal professional participants in the securities market (by almost 40%) occurred against the backdrop of a temporary decrease in exchange trading activity, difficulties in international settlements and currency exchange.

As the Central Bank noted, almost all pyramid schemes and illegal professional participants, as well as slightly less than half (43%) of black creditors, operated on the Internet. Most often, the organizers of illegal schemes did not even create their own websites and developed their activity exclusively in instant messengers.