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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 22: The founder of the MMM financial pyramid, Sergei Mavrodi, leaves Matrosskaya Tishina prison on May 22, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. Mavrodi was the founder of a scheme that defrauded more than a million Russians of their life savings. (Photo by Dima Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 22:  The founder of the MMM financial pyramid, Sergei Mavrodi, leaves Matrosskaya Tishina prison on May 22, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. Mavrodi was the founder of a scheme that defrauded more than a million Russians of their life savings.  (Photo by Dima Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images)