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10 facts about the MMM (10 photos)
Who remembers this pyramid scheme in which money is invested according to various estimates from 10 to 15 million people?
1. The name of the company became the first letters of the abbreviation of names of its founders Sergey Mavrodi, his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi and Olga Melnikova.
2. Although formally tickets MMM securities were not, they had all the necessary degree of protection (watermarks, etc.) and published in the same factories as the American dollar.
3. Initially Mavrodi generally not going to print any tickets, but simply to paint dollars in red. "Why spend money on printing, when the US government has printed all over me? Green dollar - the usual red - my. No violation of the law is not here. The dollar is not a dollar ceases to be what it painted? If you want, go to the store and merchandised his red dollar at par, and you want - come to me to the point and change it there for a hundred green. Business master "- S. Mavrodi.
4. The cost of tickets and shares MMM establish personal Mavrodi. Prices for changed twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These prices are published in almost all the newspapers, on radio and declared on TV (for publicity). Usually only grew (approximate annual growth rate of 100% per month).
5. Within six months of work (until August 4, 1994 - the date of arrest Mavrodi) prices increased 127 times, and the number of contributors, according to various estimates, reached 10 to 15 million people. Money does not have time to count, and they were considered by eye, bathrooms. According to various estimates, in Moscow alone Mavrodi then earned about $ 50 million a day.
6. August 4, 1994 employees of the Moscow tax inspectorate management with the help of riot police stormed the central office of MMM at the Warsaw highway. All financial records and accounts of the company were seized. There were witnesses who say (and this is confirmed in court under oath) that the back door office seventeen KAMAZ taken with all the cash.
7. In 1996, Mavrodi announced his candidacy for president of Russia, but the CEC rejected them almost all the signatures.
8. The success of the MMM has caused the emergence of some 1,700 other pyramid schemes, in particular, such as "Hopper-Invest", "Russian House Selenga", "Vlastiliny", "Telemarket", "Hermes-finance", "Tibet", "Russian property "" Rosich "Regional Pension Fund" North "and so on. n.
9. The protagonist commercials MMM Lenya Golubkov began in 1994 "Person of the Year", with ahead in this ranking by as much as ten points Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
10. In 1992, MMM has done several times a day free travel on the Moscow metro.
1. The name of the company became the first letters of the abbreviation of names of its founders Sergey Mavrodi, his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi and Olga Melnikova.
2. Although formally tickets MMM securities were not, they had all the necessary degree of protection (watermarks, etc.) and published in the same factories as the American dollar.
3. Initially Mavrodi generally not going to print any tickets, but simply to paint dollars in red. "Why spend money on printing, when the US government has printed all over me? Green dollar - the usual red - my. No violation of the law is not here. The dollar is not a dollar ceases to be what it painted? If you want, go to the store and merchandised his red dollar at par, and you want - come to me to the point and change it there for a hundred green. Business master "- S. Mavrodi.
4. The cost of tickets and shares MMM establish personal Mavrodi. Prices for changed twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These prices are published in almost all the newspapers, on radio and declared on TV (for publicity). Usually only grew (approximate annual growth rate of 100% per month).
5. Within six months of work (until August 4, 1994 - the date of arrest Mavrodi) prices increased 127 times, and the number of contributors, according to various estimates, reached 10 to 15 million people. Money does not have time to count, and they were considered by eye, bathrooms. According to various estimates, in Moscow alone Mavrodi then earned about $ 50 million a day.
6. August 4, 1994 employees of the Moscow tax inspectorate management with the help of riot police stormed the central office of MMM at the Warsaw highway. All financial records and accounts of the company were seized. There were witnesses who say (and this is confirmed in court under oath) that the back door office seventeen KAMAZ taken with all the cash.
7. In 1996, Mavrodi announced his candidacy for president of Russia, but the CEC rejected them almost all the signatures.
8. The success of the MMM has caused the emergence of some 1,700 other pyramid schemes, in particular, such as "Hopper-Invest", "Russian House Selenga", "Vlastiliny", "Telemarket", "Hermes-finance", "Tibet", "Russian property "" Rosich "Regional Pension Fund" North "and so on. n.
9. The protagonist commercials MMM Lenya Golubkov began in 1994 "Person of the Year", with ahead in this ranking by as much as ten points Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
10. In 1992, MMM has done several times a day free travel on the Moscow metro.
