Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Rostov-on-Don, Russia · 2024

Russia: online 'hereditary healer' convicted of defrauding thirteen clients seeking curse-removal

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Appellate history

2024-05-17

Upheld without modification.

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Convicted

Authority role

self-styled 'hereditary healer' trading as Maria Moreno

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The money moved only because the victims believed she held occult power over their fates — belief was the whole instrument.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

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Proceedings

2024-05-17 · conviction; upheld on appeal

Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don; Rostov Regional Court, Russia. Maria Belashova, who sold curse-removal and love-return rituals online as the 'hereditary healer Maria Moreno', was convicted of fraud against at least thirteen victims across many regions between January 2019 and May 2022, causing more than two million roubles in losses, and sentenced to five years in a general-regime colony. The Rostov Regional Court upheld the sentence without modification on 17 May 2024.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed occult power over clients' fates
sale of curse-removal and love-return rituals

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