GUILTY NY- Viktoria Nasyrova, Russian living in NY, guilty of 2016 attempted murder by cheesecake, of her beautician doppelgänger, Olga Tsvyk, Feb 2023

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Feb 10 2023 rbbm

Viktoria Nasyrova: Woman guilty of lookalike cheesecake poisoning plot

The Russian-born New Yorker planned to murder her victim and steal her identity, jury finds.

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Viktoria Nasyrova (left) and Olga Tsvyk (right)
By Tiffany Wertheimer

''Viktoria Nasyrova tried to kill her beautician Olga Tsvyk in 2016 by giving her a piece of cheesecake poisoned with a strong sedative.
However Ms Tsvyk survived, and when she returned from hospital, found her identity documents had been stolen.
Nasyrova will be sentenced next month, and is facing up to 25 years in prison.
At the time, the pair looked quite similar, with dark hair and the same skin complexion, and they were both Russian speakers.
"The jury saw through the deception and schemes of the defendant," Melinda Katz, the Queens District Attorney said in a statement.

"Fortunately, her victim survived and the poison led right back to the culprit," Ms Katz added.
The jury heard that in August 2016, Nasyrova, now 47, went to her beautician's house in Queens with a box of cheesecake - eating two pieces herself, and offering the third, poisoned slice to Ms Tsvyk, who was 35 at the time. She started to vomit and went to lie down.''

''Ms Tsvyk's friend found her unconscious the next day, her clothes changed to lacey lingerie and pills scattered around the floor as if she had tried to take her own life.
When she finally returned home, Ms Tsvyk's Ukrainian passport and US work permit were missing, as well as jewellery and about $4,000 (£3,300) in cash, the prosecutor said during opening statements.''

 

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Feb 10 2023 MATT NAHAM rbbm.

Jurors subject 'dominatrix' to guilty verdict for trying to murder her lookalike with cheesecake

A 47-year-old New York woman from Russia, described in various reports as a "dominatrix," was found guilty of trying to poison and murder a fellow Russian woman who looked like her.

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''Jurors subject ‘dominatrix’ to potential 25-year prison term for trying to murder lookalike eyelash stylist with cheesecake tainted by powerful Russian benzo''​

''Olga Tsvyk on Good Morning America in 2018 (via GMA/YouTube screengrab), Viktoria Nasyrova appears in court (image via CBS 2 screengrab)

''There was nothing sweet about this cheesecake.
A 47-year-old New York woman from Russia, described in various reports as a “dominatrix,” was found guilty in a Queens courtroom Thursday of trying to poison and murder a fellow Russian woman who looked like her all the way back in August 2016.

Prosecutors said and jurors agreed that Viktoria Nasyrova devised a Trojan Horse-type plot, appearing at the door of then-35-year-old eyelash stylist and friend Olga Tsvyk with a container of cheesecake in hand. That cheesecake, prosecutors said, was actually tainted with a powerful Russian benzodiazepine, Phenazepam. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement after the verdict that Nasyrova took the victim’s passport and employment authorization card in a bid to steal Tsvyk’s identity.''


''Prosecutors said that Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn resident attempted murder at Tsvyk’s Forest Hills home on Aug. 28, 2016 and tried to make it look like a suicide.

After Tsvyk was released from the hospital, she started to put the pieces together of what exactly had happened to her and why. She noticed her passport and other identification were gone. Other items, including a gold ring, were also missing.

“She called me, ‘I’m going to give you very delicious cheesecake,'” Tsvyk told Good Morning America in 2018. “When I eat the cake right away I feel very, very sick.”

Doctors reportedly told the victim she was 40 minutes away from death at the time she was found unconscious in her bed by her landlord.''

''According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Phenazepam is available by prescription in Russia but has “recently emerged on the illicit drug market in the United Kingdom and United States” and is often used recreationally. In this instance, prosecutors said, the sedative was used for attempted murder.

Nasyrova allegedly fled Russia in 2014 before she could be charged with the drugging and murder of a different friend, this one a man.

During a 2018 interview with 48 Hours while she was detained at Rikers Island, the so-called dominatrix Nasyrova was also asked whether it was true that she had also drugged and robbed men she met through dating sites.''

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April 19 2023

New York woman sentenced for cheesecake murder plot

Viktoria Nasyrova lashes out at the judge as she is jailed for the "diabolical" identity theft plot.

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By Max Matza

''A Russian woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for attempting to kill her lookalike in a bizarre identity-theft plot in New York City.
Viktoria Nasyrova gave her beautician, Olga Tsvyk, a slice of poisoned cheesecake on 28 August 2016 before stealing her passport and work permit.
As she learned her fate, Nasyrova, 47, directed an expletive at the judge at the court in the borough of Queens.
A prosecutor called her a "ruthless and calculating con artist".
Nasyrova "is going to prison for a long time for trying to murder her way to personal profit and gain", Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said on Wednesday.''

''In 2015, Interpol issued a red notice for her arrest over the murder of a woman in Russia a year earlier. She is accused of killing her neighbour and stealing her life savings.

Nasyrova, who US media reports is a former dominatrix, has also been accused of drugging and robbing men she met on dating websites.
Her crimes - both alleged and convicted - were the subject of a documentary by CBS's investigative programme 48 Hours in 2017''

VIDEO

Red Notice for Murder: The hunt for Russian fugitive Viktoria Nasyrova

A Brooklyn woman turns to a New York private eye for help tracking down a Russian beauty she believes robbed and killed her mother. Can they find her?

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2018
''A glamorous seductress with a love for furs made an error while driving through Russia. It seems she forgot to hide the body of her alleged victim -- whom she had in the front seat of her rental car.

The mistake, which was caught on traffic cameras, would eventually put her in the middle of an international manhunt and a target for a tough-talking New York private eye.

"48 Hours" and correspondent Peter Van Sant travels from New York to Russia with a daughter who's convinced that woman in the front seat is her missing mother.''

 

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April 21 2023

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Viktoria Nasyrova sought to murder her doppelganger in New York with a phenazepam-laced cheesecake, hoping to steal her identity, prosecutors said.
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Wonder if her nick name now is Cheesecake?, imo.

Russian dominatrix who tried to kill her friend sentenced to 21 years

Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in a Queens, New York courtroom on Wednesday for her twisted attempt to poison and kill her friend Olga Tsvyk.

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''Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, shouted 'F*** you' toward the Queens Supreme Court judge who sentenced her to more than two decades in prison on Wednesday.''

 

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