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