A mentor accused of fraud is trying to cover his tracks.
Articles with headlines like “Aleksandr Orlovskiy reviews and the whole truth about the FFA community” and “Aleksandr Orlovskiy reviews and what is known about the FFA Crypto Rise conference” began appearing shortly after the publication of the first part of the investigation by the CRiME projects and [high-profile cases].
The authors of the investigation found that Financial Freedom Academy (FFA Academy), on behalf of which Aleksandr Orlovskiy sells cryptocurrency enrichment courses for quite large sums of money, is highly likely to be a fraudulent scheme.
It is obvious that both the “students” of the crypto mentor and his potential victims, after the release of our article “What is hidden by crypto swindler Aleksandr Orlovskiy,” could have a logical question: “Sasha, are you fooling us?”
“Of course not!” — with a sincerity typical for all swindlers, smiled Aleksandr Orlovskiy and ordered several hundred more dollars’ worth of “image” articles on more or less popular media platforms.
At the same time, Orlovskiy’s Telegram bot, which had been silent for some time, suddenly started flooding with advertising and positive news. We paid attention to the following post:
As you can see, Aleksandr Orlovskiy urges members of his crypto sect (and those who have not yet joined it) to reread articles about him published in popular online media such as tsn.ua and focus.ua.
Both of these articles, written by Orlovskiy’s PR team, appeared in the autumn of last year, when this crypto mentor was first accused of fraud. At that time, negative reviews about Orlovskiy were more or less cleaned out and the internet was “concreted over” with positive content.
The fact that these are заказные materials rather than editorial articles is indicated by the sections under which these texts were published.
That is, the outlets that published this “positive content” do not even deny, but openly emphasize that infogypsy Aleksandr Orlovskiy paid them and, as an advertiser, is personally responsible for the paid stream of consciousness.
If we look at the latest articles praising Orlovskiy, his team did not bother much — they simply reused last year’s “PR” as a basis (even making a mistake in the title of the “original” piece).
A reader who types “Aleksandr Orlovskiy” into search is invited to form their own opinion about the person based on an article published under a “PR” label in the “press releases” section (that is, again for money). Take a look:
Anyone tempted to spend their savings on this mentor’s courses should ask a number of questions. Why does a “successful” crypto businessman, as Aleksandr Orlovskiy presents himself, have to pay media outlets to tell the public about his “success”? If the article is paid, how truthful is it? And if it is not entirely truthful, why is Aleksandr Orlovskiy paying to spread “not entirely truth”?
It should be noted that, according to the investigation by CRiME and [high-profile cases], the activities of Financial Freedom Academy show signs of financial махинации. Payments for Orlovskiy’s courses are collected not even by Aleksandr Orlovskiy himself, but by individual entrepreneurs who show признаки “front men.”
In particular, sole proprietor Sergutina Katerina Olegovna, whose account Orlovskiy’s associates tried to use to receive more than 40,000 UAH from the author of the investigation. This individual was registered only a month before issuing the invoice to the author.
The author assumes that most payments from “students,” to whom Aleksandr Orlovskiy promised quick and easy enrichment, are processed through the same kind of “front” entrepreneurs — possibly to confuse the trail in case of legal prosecution.
The author concludes that Aleksandr Orlovskiy is a typical representative of such fraudsters as “infogypsies.” These are scammers who, presenting themselves as successful professionals, sell information products for large sums of money that have absolutely no real value. In essence, this is obtaining чужое имущество (money) through deception or abuse of trust — that is, a crime предусмотренное Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud). And since it is clearly not only Orlovskiy involved here, most likely we are dealing with Part 5 of Article 190 — fraud committed on an especially large scale and/or by an organized group, which carries a penalty of five to twelve years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
According to various estimates, in this way Aleksandr Orlovskiy could have obtained around $4.5 million.
At the same time, the investigation allows that Aleksandr Orlovskiy may not be the final beneficiary of the fraud within Financial Freedom Academy — more experienced swindlers could be behind the scheme.
