In Moscow, Sergei Mavrodi, the founder of the largest financial pyramid in the post-Soviet space, MMM, died in the Botkin hospital. By the way, he recently talked about the fact that he could collapse the Bitcoin rate.
The day before he was hospitalized from a bus stop on Polikarpov Street. A random passerby called an ambulance for him - Mavrodi complained of weakness and pain in his heart. Mavrodi was hospitalized, but it was not possible to save him - he died this morning. He was 62 years old. Let us note that doctors suspected something was wrong in Mavrodi’s death.
The founder of the largest financial pyramid in the history of our country, MMM, is treated differently today, writes fb.ru. Some call him a brilliant entrepreneur, others call him a swindler who embezzled the money of millions of people. Despite such opposing assessments, Mavrodi’s biography still does not cease to interest society. Sergei’s personal life deserves special attention, because his legal wife was fashion model and beauty pageant winner Elena Pavlyuchenko.
Sergei Mavrodi died. Biography of a great swindler
The family of Mavrodi Pavlyuchenko's wife, Elena Aleksandrovna, was born in Zaporozhye on June 7, 1969. The girl's mother worked as an engineer, her father was a candidate of technical sciences, and headed a laboratory at the Titanium Research Institute. Later, the Pavlyuchenko couple had another daughter, who was named Oksana.
During her school years, Lena Pavlyuchenko grew up as a quiet and uncommunicative child. She was an ordinary girl with pigtails and stood out among her classmates except for her more attractive appearance. Pavlyuchenko studied at school No. 92 in the city of Zaporozhye. In elementary and middle school, Lena had good academic performance, but before graduating from school, grades began to appear in her diary. The girl's favorite subjects were literature and history, but she did not like physical education. In her free time from classes, Mavrodi’s future wife attended a music school and a theater studio.
Funeral of Sergei Mavrodi
The funeral took place only on March 31. Before this, the body was in the morgue; none of the relatives were in a hurry to take it away. The participation of Vyacheslav’s brother was limited to the phrase that he forbids burying Sergei in the family grave. The deceased had no other relatives.
The staff of the institution began to think that the corpse would be buried along with the homeless at the expense of the state. However, soon the body was taken by the ex-wife, Elena Pavlyuchenko.
The circumstances of Mavrodi’s farewell and burial are unknown. The details were kept in the strictest confidence. According to unofficial data, the funeral was held at the expense of MMM investors.
According to Wikipedia, the grave is located at the Troekurovsky cemetery, where he was buried in a closed coffin.
“Svyaznaya” and “common fund holder”
However, under Mavrodi, Elena was not just a beautiful wife. There were rumors that she almost played the role of a “connector”: she made contacts with the people he needed, ensured the hiring of security and servants, monitored the movement of money and was almost the “holder of the common fund.”
In one of the interviews, a woman called Mavrodi the ideal man.
“Besides money, he has such an abyss of merits that envious people can only burst from their own vice,” said Elena. “After literally a minute’s conversation with him, people look at him as if he were God. Sergei’s aura is simply amazing... He reads a lot, quotes classics and even the Bible, knows everything Vysotsky and Galich by heart. The memory is phenomenal. He is witty and inventive. He will instantly find a way out of any difficult situation, and will also make it work for himself. He really is a genius.
At the same time, loving spouses lived separately, in different apartments. In 2005, Mavrodi filed for divorce and refused to meet with his wife. He was in a pre-trial detention center and awaiting a court verdict, having decided that he would be given 20 years and no one would wait that long for him in the wild.
After divorcing her husband, Elena changed her name and appearance and disappeared from the media. According to people familiar with Sergei, his ex-wife and her mother live today in their own house in the Moscow region. She is raising her daughter, whose father is Mavrodi, and does not give interviews.
last years of life
4 years before his death, Sergei Mavrodi undertook another step in 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 2020, the swindler claimed that he was capable of collapsing the Bitcoin rate in an instant due to the fact that most of the trading on the exchange took place thanks to the actions of MMM Global. The success of the next financial web was obvious. She worked in more than 100 countries around the world, for example, the photo presented shows happy investors from Nigeria.
The advertisement was a promise of a stable 30% per month. The principle of operation was the same as always. Those who managed to withdraw money won, those who did not have time remained bankrupt.
Alexander Mokhov, who worked as Mavrodi’s lawyer in 2011-2012, spoke about the last years of the financial schemer’s life as follows.
“He despised money, calling it cut up 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 him. As far as I know, he moved away from all financial fraud and went into literature, writing poetry and books. Everything that was done after the closure of the second MMM were fakes opened under his name.”
Such statements, the lack of financial savings and the funeral, which took place behind closed doors, gave rise to rumors that the death of the schemer was staged.
School years
Lena Pavlyuchenko grew up as a quiet and uncommunicative child. She was an ordinary girl with pigtails and stood out among her classmates except for her more attractive appearance. Pavlyuchenko studied at school No. 92 in the city of Zaporozhye. In elementary and middle school, Lena had good academic performance, but before graduating from school, grades began to appear in her diary. The girl's favorite subjects were literature and history, but she did not like physical education. In her free time from classes, Mavrodi’s future wife attended a music school and a theater studio.
short biography
Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955, his parents are ordinary engineers. His father, originally from Donbass with Ukrainian-Greek roots, died in 1980, his 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 his unique memory and good abilities in mathematics, he would have been an ordinary Soviet child. Despite his mathematical mind, he was unable to enter the Moscow Physics and Mathematics Institute. Instead, he became a student at MIEM.
Around the same time, together with his younger brother, he began making and selling audio and video cassettes. In 1983, the OBKhSS was detained for the first time.
Creation of MMM
By the time MMM was created, Sergei already had a certain fortune, which 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, shares of the pyramid went on public sale. The company's record profits and phenomenal success were the result of the unprecedented size of the event:
- 15 million depositors;
- accumulation of a third of the budget of the entire state;
- increase in share price by 127 times.
The financial power of the pyramid could be seen in many ways; Mavrodi allowed himself to do things that had never been done by any person before:
- in 1993 congratulates the population on the New Year by purchasing air time;
- in 1992, metro travel was made free for several days;
- in news broadcasts the stock price is called first and only after that Moscow time.
Participation in politics
Political activity consisted only of election to deputies and loud statements that could be regarded as fearlessness before power. From the first days he refused the privileges entitled to him, in particular:
- benefits;
- service dacha;
- a company car with a driver.
He comments on his actions by saying that he came into politics only for the sake of parliamentary immunity.
A year later, on October 6, 1995, his status was terminated early. Later he tried to run for president of the country, but the Central Election Commission rejected most of the signature sheets, calling them fake. Thus, he was unable to continue the fight for the post of head of state.
Rumors of a connection with Berezovsky
There is no reliable information about Berezovsky’s connection with Mavrodi. The only contact between them is described in the latter’s book “PiraMMMida” and the film based on the novel of the same name. Moreover, according to the script, all that unites Mavrodi and Berezovsky is the desire to “crush” the country for themselves.
Similar to the situation with Boris Abramovich, there are assumptions that Mavrodi’s activities 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 a comment to the Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter, also spoke sharply about the latter.
Prosecution
The black streak of Sergei Panteleevich’s biography came on December 17, 1997. On this day, Mavrodi was put on the all-Russian, and 1 year later, on the international wanted list. For 5 years, all the intelligence services in 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, which was in no way inferior to the one that was looking for me,” is the detainee’s comment.
The legal proceedings dragged on for several years. Several charges were brought against the perpetrator:
- passport forgery;
- 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 term had already expired. A few months later, the fraudster was again at large. Now all he has left is the obligation to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles. and repay debts to investors in the amount of 20 million rubles.
He paid off the debt to the state, but paid off debts to defrauded investors from his salary. Before his death, he was officially employed as a consultant by businessman Pavel Molchanov. He received 15,000 rubles for this. per month, from this money he paid off the debt, according to the laws of the Russian Federation, in the amount of half of his income.
Mavrodi family
After the death of his parents, his younger brother Vyacheslav remained the only close relative. Together they organized the first pyramid, after which their destinies diverged. The eldest went on the run, the younger opened another dubious financial institution, but was arrested in 2001.
Sergei was married to a Ukrainian woman, Elena Pavlyuchenko. After the husband was arrested and spent several years in prison, 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 still remains a mystery. He was the founder of several pyramids, wrote books, was involved in directing, but where all the honestly and dishonestly earned money went is still unknown. Russians are divided about his personality in the history of the country. Some consider Mavrodi a genius who taught people not to trust the first person they meet, others consider him a fraudster and swindler.
Where and how does the ex-wife of the late Sergei Mavrodi live?
On March 26, perhaps the most famous financial fraudster from the 90s, Sergei Mavrodi, . The day before he was hospitalized from a bus stop. A random passerby called an ambulance for him - Mavrodi complained of weakness and pain in his heart. Sergei Mavrodi is treated differently, because there are those who consider him a financial genius, an unusually successful entrepreneur and, in some way, an idealist. Others believe that he is a real swindler who should be behind bars. Next we will talk not about Mavrodi’s personality, but about his ex-wife - a successful fashion model, beauty pageant winner, child abductor and three-time State Duma deputy Elena Pavlyuchenko . Sergei and Elena were married from 1993 to 2005.
Elena Pavlyuchenko
According to some sources, Elena got married again. According to others, he lives with his mother and daughter from Sergei Mavrodi in a house in the Moscow region. She will turn 49 this summer.
Elena is from the Ukrainian Zaporozhye, her maiden name is Pavlyuchenko. Her family was simple. My mother worked as an engineer, my father was a candidate of technical sciences and headed a laboratory at the Titanium Research Institute.
After school, Elena went to study at the Faculty of Philology of the Zaporozhye Pedagogical Institute in the correspondence department. In 1989 she took part in the Miss Zaporozhye . Possessing natural charisma, she effortlessly made it to the top 10 finalists.
As eyewitnesses say, Lena had the brightest and most outstanding outfits. However, despite all her efforts, the beauty lost first place to another girl, taking the title “Vice Miss”.
After the loss, Elena Pavlyuchenko created a scandal, reported that her expensive earrings were stolen from her dressing room, and wrote a statement to the police. The girl's mother even attempted to challenge the result of the competition through legal proceedings.
At the dawn of the 1990s, Elena moved to the Russian capital. Having taken part in the then popular television competition of Yuri Nikolaev “Morning Star”, she met Sergei Mavrodi, who occupied a place on the jury. The founder of MMM was just then recruiting models for an advertising campaign for the pyramid, and the bright and talented Elena blew him away.
Soon the girl became a face. The couple started dating.
Especially for his beloved, Mavrodi organized international beauty contests, in which she won. Elena won many titles and headed the MMM-Models modeling agency founded by Sergei.
According to Elena, they were in no hurry to register the marriage and lived separately.
We were just friends for a long time, we decided to register the relationship after criminal prosecution began against Serezha... We were not like ordinary lovers.
In an interview, Mavrodi said that he could not imagine how it was possible to live with a woman in the same apartment.
Sergey Mavrodi
Mrs. Mavrodi headed one of the company’s departments, for which she received a good salary. When Sergei was hiding from criminal liability, she was his way of connecting with the right people, and also kept track of the money.
According to rumors, it was Elena Mavrodi who “surrendered” her husband to the police so as not to be held accountable for her own sins.
A number of scandals are associated with Elena’s name. She was involved in the case of the kidnapping of a baby from the Pediatrics Research Institute, who was being treated there.
A clinic employee carried the child out of the building and handed it over to the women sitting in a car parked nearby. Research institute staff raised the alarm when they noticed that the baby was not there. The car with the kidnappers was stopped and they were taken to the police.
As it turned out, Elena’s infertile friend planned to illegally adopt the baby.
Mavrodi’s wife had connections at the research institute, and she volunteered to help organize the kidnapping. During the investigation, the suspects changed their testimony and confused the investigation so much that the case had to be closed.
The scandal with the attempted abduction of a child is not the only dark spot in the biography of Elena Mavrodi.
In the second half of the 90s, she tried to make a career in politics.
The woman ran for State Duma deputy three times, but was never able to achieve what she wanted.
Twice the candidacy was withdrawn on the eve of the vote due to bribery of voters, and on the third she did not receive the required number of votes.
A person from Mavrodi’s entourage said that in the MMM scam, Elena acted as an eminence grise, representing people with great connections.
In 2005, Sergei and Elena officially divorced. After the divorce, the woman changed not only her last name, but also her appearance . Mentions of her in the media have ended.
According to acquaintances of the late Mavrodi, the woman now leads a quiet life with her mother and daughter, who was born from Sergei.
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Disease and death
Mavrodi traveled a lot and hid, but the road led him back to Russia. All his life, the financial “genius” suffered from heart disease - this is a bilateral congenital defect. At the same time, alcohol abuse took its toll; he was repeatedly spotted drunk and noisy, as evidenced by dozens of videos on the Internet.
Against the backdrop of a wild life, the “unfortunate financier” managed to get a duodenal ulcer, which progressed to the last stage - perforation with bleeding, which was revealed by an autopsy after death.
In recent years, the swindler lived in a Moscow apartment, from where he rarely left. The death of Sergei Mavrodi was found on the street - he was found with a heart attack at a transport stop by a passer-by, who called an ambulance.
Mavrodi was admitted to the Botkin hospital, where he was found to have severe alcohol intoxication and symptoms of a heart attack. Since childhood, he was predicted to have a short life with a weak heart. The date of death of Sergei Mavrodi was March 26, 2020.
A combination of several circumstances led to the sad outcome. At the same time, all the diseases made themselves felt - advanced atherosclerosis, hemorrhage in the duodenum and aggravated myocardial infarction. The day before, he drank heavily, accelerating the exacerbation of chronic symptoms through intoxication, which became the cause of the death of Mavrodi Sergei.
"Glory" Mavrodi
In 2000, information was announced in the press that there were about 400 “Sergeev Mavrodi” in psychiatric hospitals in Moscow. Mavrodi’s fame haunted the movie bosses, who released the film “Pyramid” in 2011. In 2014, another film about Mavrodi, “The River,” was released, but it was not widely released. In 2020, the series “Zombies” was broadcast on YouTube, where Sergei Mavrodi authored the script and soundtracks.
Mavrodi presents his book (photo: mirnov.ru)
Sergei Mavrodi wrote the book “Son of Lucifer”, 14 short stories from which were published in 2008, others in 2012. He wrote the books “Prison Diaries” and “The Punishment Cell” about his prison life.
According to studies, 75% of Russians consider Sergei Mavrodi a thief and schemer, about 15% - a genius.
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Litigation
In 1997, MMM was declared bankrupt. The deprivation of immunity of the parliamentarian led to the resumption of previous investigative actions against the “father” of MMM, as part of a new charge of fraud. In 1997, Mavrodi was put on the wanted list in Russia, and since 1998 Interpol has been looking for him.
This is what MMM tickets looked like
According to law enforcement agencies, he was hiding in the Moscow region or abroad. In reality, the leader of an unprecedented financial community did not leave the capital anywhere, but lived incognito in a rented apartment for about 8 years. His safety was allegedly ensured by a personal service of specialists of a level no lower than international police officers.
Sergei Mavrodi has been wanted for 6 years
During his time on the wanted list, the irrepressible pyramid builder launched another project on the World Wide Web - the largest electronic exchange in history, Stock Generation. About three hundred thousand Europeans and Americans suffered from its activities.
In 2003, an adventurer of colossal proportions was arrested. He was accused of forgery (at the time of his arrest, law enforcement seized a false passport from him), as well as violating tax laws, in addition to an existing indictment for fraud. For the first crime, the court sentenced him to imprisonment for 1 year and 1 month. There was no punishment for the second due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
Photo from the courtroom (2003)
The main case of defrauding millions of investors contained more than 600 volumes. It was investigated for 3 years, and the trial continued for another year. The amount of damage caused to victims has been assessed differently by individual experts, but is generally accepted to have amounted to more than a billion dollars.
Mavrodi was released in 2007
In 2007, the fraudster received a court sentence of 4.5 years in prison. About a month later he was released - his stay in the pre-trial detention center was counted towards his sentence.
Sergei Mavrodi wrote the book “Temptation”
A year after his release, he published the book “Temptation.” Bailiffs seized its circulation, as the author was sued by defrauded investors for the recovery of funds in the amount of about three hundred million rubles. To pay off the debt, more than one and a half thousand books were also confiscated from his private library.
