Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian nationwide who additionally goes by Lola Ferrari, was arrested in Thailand on an unknown date.
Oblamska was extradited to the US on Could eighth and, pursuant to an excellent warrant, was arrested by US authorities on Could eleventh.
Oblamska (beneath) was one in every of 4 Forsage Ponzi scammers, together with founder Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov, indicted in 2023.
Oblamska referred to herself because the “goddess of Forsage” and, along with being an insider, was one of many Ponzi schemes high promoters.
The SEC filed parallel civil fraud costs in opposition to Oblamska and her Forsage co-conspirators in August 2022. Forsage sufferer losses have been pegged at round $340 million.
Oblamska marks the primary Forsage arrest because the indictments dropped. Mikail Sergeev and Sergey Maslakov are believed to be in Russia.
Vladimir Okhotnikov (proper) was hiding out in Georgia till Georgian authorities filed Forsage associated legal costs in opposition to him.
Okhotnikov then fled to Dubai, with a Georgian court docket sentencing him in absentia to 10 years in jail in March 2024.
From Dubai, Okhotnikov tried to reinvent himself as a movie producer with the assistance of Ukrainian nationwide Elvira Gavrilova.
Okhotnikov is believed to be laundering Forsage investor funds by means of Gavrilova’s firm Elledgy Media and the “Holiguards Saga” movie undertaking.
Portuguese authorities are investigating Gavrilova for cash laundering offenses as of January 2026.
On the MLM facet of issues, Okhotnikov continues to defraud shoppers by means of Meta Whale.
Meta Whale, the eighth Forsage reboot, is an MLM crypto Ponzi like its predecessors.
Particular to Meta Whale, securities fraud warnings have been issued by Slovenia, Quebec and Alberta. Vietnamese authorities arrested native Meta Whale promoters in December 2025.
As of April 2026, SimilarWeb was monitoring lower than a thousand month-to-month visits to Meta Whale’s web site.
The one remaining sources of Meta Whale web site site visitors are India (54%) and South Africa (46%).
Whereas Meta Whale’s web site remains to be up, in April 2026 Okhotnikov introduced new “Vistory” and “T&S” spinoffs.
Vistory is extra “the way forward for net 3.0” nonsense. Centered round “V-Academy”, Vistory gives “helpful programs”, gamification and “NFT-certificates”.
In fact there’s a brand new CES token hooked up, which is presumably only a car to solicit new funding by means of.
T&S doesn’t exist but however seems to be a mishmash of NFTs, metaverses and different dated and long-forgotten crypto grifts.
Dubai’s authorities might put an finish to the nonsense and arrest Okhotnikov like Thailand did with Oblamska however, to the detriment of shoppers, select to not.
Taking a look at Oblamska’s case docket, she was appointed a Public Defender and entered a not responsible plea on Could eleventh.
Oblamska has been ordered detained pending a detention listening to, with a trial at the moment scheduled for July 14th, 2026. If convicted, Oblamska is dealing with as much as twenty years in jail.
