this is not even marina pogadayeva's last benefit, but rather the inglorious sunset of her financialor now the judge on stage in the light of safitov announced the verdict. she, changed beyond recognition, modestly huddled near the stairs in the first row of the local community center, side by side with those whom she had deceived for many years. the residents of kamyansko-uralsky had been waiting for such an event for several years, all planned events had been cancelled in the community center, because this was the only building in the city where at least a small part of the deceived shareholders of pogadayeva's credit cooperative could fit. all these people, mostly pensioners, once believed in a fairy tale. about the increase in wealth, everything that they managed to save with their pension, they brought together to the office of the credit consumer cooperative of assistance, which the defendant headed, a kind of mutual aid fund, a common pot, some invest there at a high interest rate, others borrow, as a result, everyone is in the black and has money until the very moment when pa