Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia · 2018

Russia: a woman twice already convicted of the same fraud did it again while serving two suspended sentences, taking 494,500 roubles — and was given a third suspended sentence

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman acting with another under a plan whose agreed method of deception was the assertion of a curse and of deadly illness

Organization

Nizhnekamsk City Court, Republic of Tatarstan (Нижнекамский городской суд)

Archive classification

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

The court found the method of deception was fixed in the plan itself as the assertion of a curse and of deadly illness — the claimed diagnosis and its remedy being the agreed instrument of the offence rather than something improvised on meeting the victim.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment
Threatened spiritual consequence

Scope decision

The defendant is not named. Russian courts anonymise published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies her by case number and court — case no. 1-171/2018, Nizhnekamsk City Court — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. No attempt has been made to identify her from other sources; the victim is unnamed. The two earlier convictions are recorded because the court relies on them in describing the offence and in fixing sentence; the judgment states they were for the same kind of fraud, and this record does not go beyond what it states. The second participant's case was severed and no finding is made about that person here. Despite the size of the loss and the two prior convictions, the sentence was SUSPENDED IN FULL with a four-year probation period: the defendant did not go to prison, and this record must not be read as a custodial outcome. That sequence — a third conviction for the same conduct, a third non-custodial outcome — is stated because the judgment states it, not as a criticism of the court, whose reasoning on sentence is not summarised here. This is a fraud record and not a record of any religious community.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2018-06-03 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Nizhnekamsk City Court, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia (Нижнекамский городской суд). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО1, was convicted of fraud by deception on a large scale under part 3 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to four years' deprivation of liberty, suspended under article 73 with a four-year probation period. The court recorded that she had 'twice previously been convicted of the theft of the property of others by deception, by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, causing significant and large-scale damage to citizens', that 'after conviction she drew no proper conclusions for herself, did not take the path of correction', and that 'while serving suspended terms of punishment she again committed, by an analogous method, fraud by a group of persons by prior conspiracy causing large-scale damage'. It found she entered into a criminal conspiracy with a person whose case was severed, forming a criminal group, and that the two 'developed a plan for committing the offence, settling as the method of deception the presence of a curse and of deadly illnesses'. Sums recorded include 48,000, 26,460 and 484,000 roubles, with a total of 494,500 roubles assessed as large-scale damage.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a plan developed with another person which specified the method of deception in advance
the assertion that a curse was present and that deadly illness would follow
commission of the offence while the defendant was serving two suspended sentences for the same conduct

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-171/2018 от 3 июня 2018 г. по делу № 1-171/2018, Нижнекамский городской суд (Республика Татарстан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that the defendant was «ранее дважды судимая за хищение чужого имущества путем обмана, группой лиц по предварительному сговору, с причинением значительного и крупного ущерба гражданам», that «после осуждения должных выводов для себя не сделала, на путь исправления не встала и во время отбытия условных сроков наказаний вновь совершила аналогичным способом мошенничество»; that she «вступила в преступный сговор с неустановленным следствием лицом... образовав преступную группу»; and that the two «разработали план совершения преступления, оговорив при этом способ обмана - наличие порчи и смертельных [болезней]». Sums of 48,000, 26,460 and 484,000 roubles are recorded, «на общую сумму 494 500 рублей, что является крупным размером». The operative part convicts under ч.3 ст.159 УК РФ, imposes four years' deprivation of liberty and suspends it under ст.73 with a four-year probation period.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/5q3urEgbZPmK/ 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; full judgment read via the browser pane; the two prior convictions, the commission during suspended terms, the agreed method of deception, the itemised sums and the third suspension under art.73 taken verbatim from the judgment)

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