Written by Scilla Alecci & Fergus Shiel

He’s the creator of a movie by Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, with Bollywood star Disha Patani listed among the cast; he is the face behind several investor summits in India; he has even persuaded Elon Musk’s mother, Maye, to pose for the cover of his new magazine — launched during her birthday party in Mumbai this year.

Meet Vladimir Okhotnikov, better known as Lado, a 47-year-old Russian entrepreneur accused of orchestrating a series of global crypto currency scams that investigators allege have siphoned as much as $1 billion from millions of unsuspecting investors across four continents.

US prosecutors have charged him with running Forsage, an alleged international Ponzi and pyramid scheme that used a rigged cryptocurrency investment platform to

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