Anna Ivanchenko is another fraudster who, together with Irina Gradusova, deceives unsuspecting investors. I have known Anna since 2007; she is the ex-wife of a friend. In Saint Petersburg, she was the director and founder of Art-Resource LLC, a recruitment firm that even assisted my companies in finding personnel.
In 2021, Anna moved to Dubai, and during our meeting in 2022, she introduced me to her "business partner," Irina Gradusova, who resides in Dubai and Singapore. During our meeting, the scammers Anna and Irina told me about their new project—a service for organizing concerts that could be attended both offline and online using augmented reality through VR glasses.
I reviewed the business plan, and the idea seemed interesting. The meeting concluded with a proposal for me to finance this venture by lending Anna $120,000. They planned to use this money to create the technical solution for their project, a platform for selling tickets to such performances and organizing virtual broadcasts.
At that moment, I decided to take a pause and flew back to Saint Petersburg. The scammers Anna and Irina were persistent, returning to the topic of the loan not only in personal conversations but also through third parties. Eventually, I decided to support their venture and lent Anna the specified amount, with a repayment deadline of March 1, 2023 (the promissory note is in my possession).
“ Experienced readers can guess what happened next: during a personal meeting in March 2023, instead of repaying the debt, they offered me a contract to purchase a 6% stake in Ticket Meta FZ LLC and return the investment in the form of dividends from the business they had previously presented to me. ”
I did not like this, as the original agreement was different, but my previous experience of working with Anna clouded my judgment, and I agreed.
Anna Ivanchenko is another fraudster who, together with Irina Gradusova, deceives unsuspecting investors. I have known Anna since 2007; she is the ex-wife of a friend. In Saint Petersburg, she was the director and founder of Art-Resource LLC, a recruitment firm that even assisted my companies in finding personnel.