😈 Smerkis vs Police 👮
A criminal case was recently opened against Vladimir Smerkis, co-founder of Blum, one of the "noisy" mini-apps in Telegram, famous for scandals and postponements of airdrops and updates.
On May 16, the Zamoskovertsky District Court of Moscow
registered a case on the selection of a preventive measure in the form of detention for Smerkis V.Y.
Law enforcement agencies confirmed the arrest. Smerkis is accused of committing a crime under Article 159, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud committed on an especially large scale, as part of an organized criminal group.
It's amazing how quickly the Blum team renounced their "main character" and the face of the project, who supported them to the end (in the best traditions of GotBit partners). Literally a few hours before the information about Smerkis' arrest appeared, the official Blum channel
announced his departure:
Vladimir Smerkis has resigned as Marketing Director and is no longer involved in the project's development or as a co-founder.
There are a lot of questions in this story, and the main one (most likely) is "what did he get caught doing?" After all, in addition to the manipulations on TON, Smerkis has a rather interesting and "rich" past associated with the Binance crypto exchange, although it has never been confirmed.
It doesn't look like a byte, but in any case, the continuation is interesting... Meta was right about him after all!
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