Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia · 2019

Russia: 1,364,000 roubles taken from one woman under the pretext of removing a curse — the largest single loss in the archive's record of this practice

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman acting with another under a plan built around the pretext of removing a curse, a second person, whose case was severed, whose assigned role was to open the conversation with the victim

Organization

Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol (Промышленный районный суд г. Ставрополя)

Archive classification

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

The court found the pretext of removing a curse was settled between the participants before the victim was approached and was the basis on which the roles were divided; it was that claim which sustained extraction of more than 1.3 million roubles from a single person.

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

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. 1-113/2019 (also numbered 1-631/2018), Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. No attempt has been made to identify her from other sources; the victims are unnamed and appear as numbered complainants. The second participant was not identified by the investigation and their case was severed; no finding is made about that person here, and their assigned role is described only because the court describes it. The 1,364,000 roubles is the total for one victim as the judgment states it; the judgment records further losses for other victims and this record does not aggregate across all counts, because the judgment does not do so in a quotable form. One count is an attempt rather than a completed offence, which is recorded so the four counts are not read as four completed frauds. The final three-year term is the aggregate under article 69 for all counts, not the penalty for the largest one, which was two years. This is a fraud record and not a record of any religious community.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-08-12 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia (Промышленный районный суд г. Ставрополя). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО4, was convicted on four counts: fraud on an especially large scale under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, fraud on a large scale under part 3, fraud causing significant damage under part 2, and an attempt at the part 3 offence under part 3 of article 30. She received two years on the part 4 count and one year six months on the part 3 count among others, aggregated under article 69 by partial addition to a final term of three years' deprivation of liberty to be served in a general-regime correctional colony. The court found that she acted 'together with a person unidentified by the investigation, whose criminal case was severed into separate proceedings', by prior conspiracy, and that they 'decided, under the pretext of removing a curse, to steal the property of' the victim, 'distributing the criminal roles between themselves', the unidentified person's assigned role being to enter into conversation with her. The losses recorded include 1,350,000 roubles and a total of 1,364,000 roubles in respect of one victim, and 371,000 roubles and 118,000 roubles in respect of another.

Documented coercion mechanisms

roles distributed in advance, one participant assigned to engage the victim in conversation
the pretext of removing a curse, settled before the victim was approached
escalating extraction from a single victim to more than 1.3 million roubles

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-113/2019 1-631/2018 от 12 августа 2019 г. по делу № 1-113/2019, Промышленный районный суд г. Ставрополя (Ставропольский край) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that the defendant «совместно с неустановленным следствием лицом (в отношении которого уголовное дело, выделено в отдельное производство) действуя умышленно, группой лиц по предварительному сговору... под предлогом снятия порчи, решили похитить имущество у [потерпевшей], распределив между собой преступные роли», the unidentified person's role being «вступление в диалог с [потерпевшей]». Losses recorded include «в сумме 1 350 000 рублей» and «на общую сумму 1 364 000 рублей», with further sums of 371,000 and 118,000 roubles for another victim. The operative part convicts under ч.4 ст.159, ч.3 ст.159, ч.2 ст.159 and ч.3 ст.30 ч.3 ст.159 УК РФ, and imposes «по совокупности преступлений путем частичного сложения назначенных наказаний окончательное наказание... в виде лишения свободы сроком на 3 (три) года с отбыванием... в исправительной колонии общего режима».

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/yBf1k7u76OV1/ 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; all four counts including the attempt, the aggregation under art.69, the custodial regime and the itemised losses taken verbatim from the judgment)

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