1. Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi was a Russian financial fraudster, financial criminal and previously a deputy of the State Duma.
12 Facts About Sergei Mavrodi
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In 2007 Sergei Mavrodi was convicted in a Russian court of defrauding 10,000 investors out of 110 million rubles.
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Sergei Mavrodi's father was half Greek, half Ukrainian.
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Sergei Mavrodi recalled that in school he was proficient in mathematics and physics.
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Sergei Mavrodi studied at the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.
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In 1994 Sergei Mavrodi was elected deputy of State Duma obtaining parliamentary immunity, just three weeks after he was released from prison.
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Sergei Mavrodi ran in a by-election in the Mytishchinsky District to replace deputy Andrey Aizderdzis, who was gunned down earlier that year.
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Sergei Mavrodi was reported to be trying to expand his operations into Western Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
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In 1998 Sergei Mavrodi created Stock Generation, allegedly a classic pyramid scheme presented as a "virtual stock market game".
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Sergei Mavrodi died of heart problems at the age of 62 at a hospital in Moscow.
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The role of Sergei Mavrodi is played by Aleksei Serebryakov.
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Sergei Mavrodi was depicted as a non-playable character in the 2011 video game Postal III, owning the arcade in the north of the city of Catharsis.