A Russian woman who tried to poison a Ukrainian woman with cheesecake and steal her identity was tried in the USA

A 47-year-old Russian woman who wanted to poison a Ukrainian woman with a similar appearance in order to “steal” her identity was tried in New York. In 2016, Victoria Nasirova tried to kill Olga Tsvyk with a cheesecake laced with a strong tranquilizer. The Russian woman planned to steal her victim’s passport and other valuables, and hoped to pass herself off as a Ukrainian woman after her murder, The Guardian reports. Both women look somewhat similar, with dark hair and roughly the same skin tone, although Nasirova is 12 years older than Zvik. Nasirova was hiding in the USA, because in Russia she was also accused of murder. Russian Viktoria Nasirova (left), Ukrainian Olga Tsvyk (right). Photo from social networks What happened? 47-year-old Victoria Nasirova is from the city of Armavir in the Krasnodar Territory. She moved to the United States from Russia, where she was already wanted for another murder. According to prosecutors, on August 28, 2016, Nasirova brought the cheesecake to Olga Zvik’s home in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens. When Olga ate the cheesecake, she felt sick and fainted. The woman’s friend found her in bed, almost in a coma, and took her to the hospital. The Ukrainian woman was rescued, but when she returned home, she found that her passport, work permit, gold ring and other jewelry were gone. Specialists examined the remains of the dessert on the container and found that they contain phenazepam, a powerful tranquilizer. Victoria Nasirova was arrested. “The jury saw through the defendant’s deception and schemes. She put a deadly drug in a piece of cheesecake to steal the victim’s most valuable possession – her identity. Fortunately, her victim survived and the poison led to the criminal,” Katz said. Jurors found Nasirova guilty on several counts, including attempted murder, assault and unlawful imprisonment. The court is already choosing the punishment and should announce it on March 21. The Russian faces up to 25 years in prison. “While we are disappointed with the jury’s verdict, we respect it and are considering our next steps,” said Christopher Hoyt, the defendant’s attorney. 47-year-old Nasirova (right) tried to poison Zvyk (left) with cheesecake with phenazepam in order to steal her identity. We will remind, in 2014 Nasirova was also accused of poisoning her neighbor in Krasnodar. The daughter of the murdered woman, who lives in the United States, spoke about this case in more detail in an interview with CBS News in 2017. Victoria became friends with her neighbor Alla Alekseenko, who lived in the apartment opposite. Nasirova said that she wanted to go to New York, and took fur coats and money from a neighbor, promising to give them as a gift to her daughter. Then Alekseenko “mysteriously” disappeared, and her savings and valuables were stolen from her apartment. Nasirova was the last person to see Alekseenko alive. The daughter of the murdered woman stated that her mother’s apartment was perfectly cleaned, and a message from her mother – the word “money” – was allegedly scrawled on the wall. Nasirova denied involvement in the murder, and the Russian police did not investigate the case properly. Later, Russian detectives did find evidence of Nasirova’s guilt – cameras recorded a corpse in the front seat of her car. In 2015, the remains of the murdered woman’s body were found, but the suspect of the murder escaped. According to Alekseenko’s daughter, one of the Russian “policemen” had an intimate relationship with Nasirova and she managed to leave the country not without his participation. The Russian woman forged documents and went to Mexico, and then to New York, where she met men online and provided sex services as a dominatrix. At the same time, the woman actively maintained a Facebook profile under a different name and published her photos. Read also: She dismembered 560 corpses: in the USA, the owner of a funeral parlor was convicted for illegal sale of bodies



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