Representatives of the Agency for Financial Monitoring of the Republic of Kazakhstan met with ToU students.  The topic of the meeting was the prevention of financial fraud.

 According to Arman Abetanov, a criminal investigator for major cases of the Department of Economic Investigations in Pavlodar region, according to statistics  of criminal cases initiated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Economic Investigation Service for the last 9 months of 2021, the activities of 16 pyramids were liquidated, 35 organizers were brought to justice, who managed to involve 19 thousand  citizens for a total amount of damage of 16 billion tenge.

In order not to join the fraudsters' victims in the future, you should remember a number of signs of an organized campaign that should immediately alert you.  To get the largest number of depositors, fraudsters do the following:

- They actively advertise on social networks and even popular media, attract famous personalities and artists.  They publish so-called success stories of their depositors.  They demonstrate the facts of payment of money, expensive gifts and prizes, - Arman Abetanov listed.  - They also post positive reviews about improving financial well-being, offer rewards for attracted new depositors.  They accept cash from depositors or use various systems of Internet payments and transfers without using special settlement accounts of companies in banks.

 Aggressive advertising is carried out, where they agitate to invest money and get high incomes in a short time.  Trustful people believe the attractive offers of the organizers of the pyramid, carry their savings, sometimes selling their property, cars, apartments.

ToU professor Gulmira Nurbaeva contributed her opinion to the discussion of the issue. She spoke about the need to prosecute not only for the creation and management of the financial pyramid, but also for the proposal and persuasion to participate in it.  At this time, only administrative liability is provided in the form of a large fine.

“We believe that such a measure in organizing a financial pyramid will not allow to further increase the number of participants and help prevent material and moral damage to the citizens of our country,” Gulmira Nurbayeva emphasized.

At the end of the meeting, the criminal investigator for major cases of the department recalled: if you nevertheless invested money in a financial pyramid, you need to apply to the authorities of the Department of Economic Investigations in Pavlodar region or the police and tell all the circumstances of the incident - who brought to the financial pyramid, what they promised  to whom the money was transferred, when and under what circumstances, or inform by phone 61-33-05.