{"id":974665,"date":"2025-11-18T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974665"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:39:47","slug":"who-is-lado-russian-crypto-czar-linked-to-disha-patani-film-accused-of-stealing-340-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/who-is-lado-russian-crypto-czar-linked-to-disha-patani-film-accused-of-stealing-340-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Lado? Russian crypto czar linked to Disha Patani film accused of stealing $340 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US prosecutors have accused Vladimir Okhotnikov, also known as Lado, of running Forsage, which they say was a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme built on a fraudulent crypto investment platform. According to investigators, the scheme cheated investors out of at least $340 million between 2020 and 2022. A court in Georgia later found him guilty of laundering $1.1 million linked to the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US prosecutors have accused Vladimir Okhotnikov, also known as Lado, of running Forsage, which they say was a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme built on a fraudulent crypto investment platform. According to investigators, the scheme cheated investors out of at least $340 million between 2020 and 2022. A court in Georgia later found him guilty of laundering $1.1 million linked to the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}