Justice Department's indictment of Semion Mogilevich

THE GRAND JURY CHARGES:
INTRODUCTION
The Scheme to Defraud
1. From in or about 1993, and continuing up to and including in or about
September 1998, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, defendants
SEMION MOGILEVICH,
a/k/a "Simeon Mogilevitch"
a/k/a "Semjon Mogilevcs"
a/k/a "Shimon Makhelwitsch"
a/k/a "Seva"
IGOR FISHERMAN,
JACOB BOGATIN,
a/k/a "Yakov"
ANATOLY TSOURA
together with others known and unknown to the grand jury, devised and intended to devise a
scheme and artifice to defraud thousands of investors in the United States, Canada, and
elsewhere, and to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations and promises ("the scheme to defraud").
defendants:
Plan and Purpose of the Scheme To Defraud
2. It was part of the plan and purpose of the scheme to defraud that the
(a) created and controlled a publicly-owned company in North America which
became known as YBM MAGNEX INTERNATIONAL, INC. (“YBM”);
(b) used a network of companies in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
Canada, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, which included fraudulently
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