Former communications minister suspected of organizing a financial pyramid arrested in absentia

The former communications minister suspected of organizing a financial pyramid has been arrested in absentia

Kommersant reports that on September 17, Moscow’s Meshchansky Court arrested Nikolai Nikiforov in absentia for two months.

The detention period for the former Russian minister of communications and mass media will begin from the moment he is detained on Russian territory or extradited to the country.

Nikiforov is accused of organizing a criminal community and especially large-scale fraud.

🔵In early September 2026, Kommersant reported that Nikiforov had become a defendant in a criminal case over the theft of five billion rubles from eight thousand investors in the Finiko financial pyramid. Investigators consider him one of the organizers of this financial pyramid.

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