"Goddess of Forsage" extradited to US over $340m crypto Ponzi

Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian national who also goes by Lola Ferrari, was arrested in Thailand on an unknown date.

Oblamska was extradited to the US on May 8th and, pursuant to an outstanding warrant, was arrested by US authorities on May 11th.

Oblamska (below) was one of four Forsage Ponzi scammers, including founder Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov, indicted in 2023.

Oblamska referred to herself as the “goddess of Forsage” and, in addition to being an insider, was one of the Ponzi schemes top promoters.

The SEC filed parallel civil fraud charges against Oblamska and her Forsage co-conspirators in August 2022. Forsage victim losses have been pegged at around $340 million.

Oblamska marks the first Forsage arrest since the indictments dropped. Mikail Sergeev and Sergey Maslakov are believed to be in Russia.

Vladimir Okhotnikov (right) was hiding out in Georgia until Georgian authorities filed Forsage related criminal charges against him.

Okhotnikov then fled to Dubai, with a Georgian court sentencing him in absentia to ten years in prison in March 2024.

From Dubai, Okhotnikov tried to reinvent himself as a film producer with the help of Ukrainian national Elvira Gavrilova.

Okhotnikov is believed to be laundering Forsage investor funds through Gavrilova’s company Elledgy Media and the “Holiguards Saga” film project.

Okhotnikov is believed to be laundering Forsage investor funds through Gavrilova’s company Elledgy Media and the “Holiguards Saga” film project.

Portuguese authorities are investigating Gavrilova for money laundering offenses as of January 2026.

On the MLM side of things, Okhotnikov continues to defraud consumers through Meta Whale.

Meta Whale, the eighth Forsage reboot, is an MLM crypto Ponzi like its predecessors.

Specific to Meta Whale, securities fraud warnings have been issued by Slovenia, Quebec and Alberta. Vietnamese authorities arrested local Meta Whale promoters in December 2025.

As of April 2026, SimilarWeb was tracking less than a thousand monthly visits to Meta Whale’s website.

The only remaining  sources of Meta Whale website traffic are India (54%) and South Africa (46%).

While Meta Whale’s website is still up, in April 2026 Okhotnikov announced new “Vistory” and “T&S” spinoffs.

Vistory is more “the future of web 3.0” nonsense. Centered around “V-Academy”, Vistory offers “useful courses”, gamification and “NFT-certificates”.