Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russia · 2016

Dagestan: a woman presenting herself as a fortune-teller with extrasensory powers, six counts, 854,031 roubles awarded

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman who presented herself as a fortune-teller possessing extrasensory abilities, offering removal of porcha and sglaz and the healing of illnesses

Organization

Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala (Кировский районный суд г. Махачкалы)

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The authority here is asserted as a standing identity rather than improvised for one encounter: the court records that she presented herself as «гадалкой имеющей экстрасенсорные способности», a fortune-teller with extrasensory abilities, and offered a bundle of services — removal of porcha, removal of sglaz, and the healing of illnesses. That framing sustains a relationship rather than closing a single transaction, which is why the payments came «частями», in instalments across months. Four women accepted it from the same address. The structure is the same one the archive records in Naberezhnye Chelny and Prokopyevsk: where the practitioner claims a durable capacity rather than a one-off diagnosis, the taking extends over time and no individual demand is large enough to break the belief.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment
Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Scope decision

The defendant is not named. Russian courts anonymise published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies the case by number and court — case no. 1-296/2017, Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. The four victims appear as masked designations and are not named. The record is dated to 2016, the year of the offences, rather than to the June 2017 judgment. Note a discrepancy the archive does not resolve: one victim's recorded loss is 87,500 roubles while the civil award in her favour is 187,500; both figures are reproduced as the judgment states them and no correction is asserted. The 854,031-rouble figure is the sum of the four civil awards, not a total stated by the court. THE SENTENCE IS DEFERRED: five years six months was imposed but its service postponed under ч.1 ст.82 until the defendant's child turns fourteen, so a reader should not take it as time being served. This is the second Dagestan record; unlike the Suleyman-Stalsky case, where the convicted party was a lookout and is recorded as `other`, this defendant is the person who made the spiritual claim. The judgment states an appellate route but records no appellate outcome, and none was found.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2017-06-07 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russia (Кировский районный суд г. Махачкалы). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО1, was convicted on six counts: four of fraud causing significant damage under ч.2 ст.159 of the Criminal Code, one of large-scale fraud under ч.3 ст.159, and one of open theft under ч.1 ст.161. The court found that at a single address she misled each victim by presenting herself as a fortune-teller possessing extrasensory abilities and, under the pretext of removing porcha and sglaz and healing illnesses, obtained money and gold from them with no intention of returning it. Against the first victim, between July and August 2016, she took 36,000 roubles in instalments together with gold including a chain worth 50,000 roubles and two rings worth 10,000 roubles each, a loss of 197,531 roubles. The other recorded losses were 25,000, 87,500 and 444,000 roubles. Sentences were two years on each ч.2 count, three years on the ч.3 count and one year on the robbery, aggregated by partial addition under ч.3 ст.69 to five years, and by further addition under ч.5 ст.69 with an unserved sentence of the Leninsky District Court of Dagestan of 19 July 2016 to a final term of five years six months in a general-regime colony. Under ч.1 ст.82 service of that sentence was deferred until her child reaches the age of fourteen. The civil claims of all four victims were granted, in the sums of 197,531, 25,000, 187,500 and 444,000 roubles.

Documented coercion mechanisms

an explicit claim to extrasensory powers — the court records her «представившись гадалкой имеющей экстрасенсорные способности» — rather than an ad-hoc assertion about a single curse
three services offered together: removal of porcha, removal of sglaz, and the healing of illnesses
payment taken «частями», in instalments over months rather than in one demand, so no single request was large
the property obtained on a promise of return the court found she never intended to keep
the same claim run against four victims from a single address, with one count escalating to open robbery

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-296/2017 от 7 июня 2017 г. по делу № 1-296/2017, Кировский районный суд г. Махачкалы (Республика Дагестан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that the defendant, «введя в заблуждение ФИО3, относительно противоправного характера своих намерений, представившись гадалкой имеющей экстрасенсорные способности, под предлогом снятия порчи, сглаза и исцелении болезней, неоднократно в период с июля по август 2016 года, путем обмана, не намереваясь обеспечивать возврат по принадлежности, получила от последней частями денежные средства в размере 36.000 рублей, а также золотые изделия: золотую цепочку стоимостью 50.000 рублей, золотое кольцо стоимостью 10.000 рублей, золотое кольцо стоимостью 10.000 рублей, золотую цепочку стоимостью 10.000 ру[блей]», causing «ущерб в значительном размере, на общую сумму 197 531 рублей». The same formula recurs for the further victims, with totals «на общую сумму 25.000 рублей», «на общую сумму 87.500 рублей» and «на общую сумму 444.000 рублей». The operative part convicts on six counts, aggregates under ч.3 ст.69 to five years and under ч.5 ст.69 to «5 (пять) лет и 6 (шесть) месяцев с отбыванием в колонии общего режима», defers service under ч.1 ст.82 «до достижения ее ребенком... четырнадцатилетнего возраста», and grants all four civil claims.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/FJIsDSMG1Qm1/ Corpus classification: court-of-record; evidentiary role: criminal-judgment.
Retrieval: 2026-07-29 · Preserved; Bound by Fear research cycle 2026-07-29 (Russian-language sweep, page 8; full judgment read via the browser pane; the extrasensory self-presentation, the three-service offer, the instalment structure, all four losses and civil awards, the six counts, the two-stage aggregation and the ст.82 deferral taken verbatim; the 87,500/187,500 discrepancy noted and left unresolved rather than silently reconciled)

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