was sentenced to more than eight years in prison<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn early 2025, a Telegram channel published information from a Russian court that said Nagy was in Moscow, and that he had been threatened by two men who reportedly had linked to Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n
Villas In Dubai And Moscow<\/p>\n
In the months before the indictment was unsealed, Nagy and his wife and three children had moved to Dubai, Systema found, having purchased a luxury beachfront villa, estimated around $1.7 million.<\/p>\n
In Dubai, Nagy befriended a Russian businessman named Aleksandr Kopenkin who later helped Nagy moved to Moscow in April 2024.<\/p>\n
According to a person close to Kopenkin and documents seen by Systema, Nagy ended up renting a 1,200-square-meter (13,000-square foot) villa in a western district of the Russian capital, with a monthly rent of 900,000 rubles ($12,000 in today\u2019s dollars).<\/p>\n
Nagy and Kopenkin later became embroiled in a fight over investments that Kopenkin and another man were supposed to make in a new crypto venture, according to people Systema spoke to.<\/p>\n
Among other things, Nagy complained that he had paid Kopenkin $1 million for help in obtaining legal residency in Russia, and eventually citizenship.<\/p>\n
The fight spilled into courts in Moscow, where Nagy filed a criminal complaint of theft with Moscow regional police, as well as in Dubai, where Kopenkin was briefly detained — according to people close to him — as a result of Nagy\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Nagy\u2019s current exact whereabouts are unclear, though he is believed to still be in Russia.<\/p>\n
In July 2025, according to a database of leaked personal information, which is commonplace in Russia, Nagy and his wife consulted with a Moscow medical laboratory for unspecified testing.<\/p>\n
A few months later, a person utilizing the same mobile phone number registered for a client card at a Moscow men\u2019s clothing store.<\/p>\n
The FBI and the US Justice Department declined to comment when contacted by RFE\/RL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American man charged by US authorities in a major cryptocurrency fraud scheme has moved to Moscow, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[242,5,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-13355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-features","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-the-rundown-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}