{"id":24706,"date":"2023-02-10T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:06:54","slug":"woman-guilty-of-lookalike-cheesecake-poisoning-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/02\/10\/woman-guilty-of-lookalike-cheesecake-poisoning-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman guilty of lookalike cheesecake poisoning plot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Russian woman living in New York city has been found guilty of attempting to murder her doppelg\u00e4nger in a bizarre identity-theft plot.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Viktoria Nasyrova tried to kill her beautician Olga Tsvyk in 2016 by giving her a piece of cheesecake poisoned with a strong sedative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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However Ms Tsvyk survived, and when she returned from hospital, found her identity documents had been stolen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nasyrova will be sentenced next month, and is facing up to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the time, the pair looked quite similar, with dark hair and the same skin complexion, and they were both Russian speakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The jury saw through the deception and schemes of the defendant,” Melinda Katz, the Queens District Attorney\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Fortunately, her victim survived and the poison led right back to the culprit,” Ms Katz added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Before passing out, the woman’s last memory was of seeing the defendant walking around her room,” Ms Katz’s statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When she finally returned home, Ms Tsvyk’s Ukrainian passport and US work permit were missing, as well as jewellery and about $4,000 (\u00a33,300) in cash, the prosecutor said during opening statements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Phenazepam, a strong sedative, was detected in remnants of the cheesecake, and the pills scattered on the floor were also confirmed to be the same drug.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nasyrova, who lives in Brooklyn, was convicted on Thursday of attempted murder, assault and unlawful imprisonment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is not the first time she has been in trouble with the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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 Alla Alekseenko and stealing her life savings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nasyrova, who US media reports is a former dominatrix, has also been accused of drugging and robbing men she met on dating websites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her crimes – both alleged and convicted – were the subject of a documentary by\u00a0CBS’s investigative programme 48 Hours<\/a>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Viktoria Nasyrova is allegedly wanted in Russia for murder (Image: Facebook)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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