Calling herself a "rich Kiyosaki student" coach sentenced to 5.5 years

Business coach Natalia Zackheim was sentenced to 5.5 years in a general regime colony in a case of embezzlement of money under the pretext of training in investing, the Moscow prosecutor's office said.

Together with her, her husband Andrei Krasnov, son Troy Krasnov, family friend Svetlana Semineyeva and former student Gulnara Nugmanova were found guilty. The rest of the defendants appointed various terms, one of the convicts is suspended.

According to prosecutors, they sold courses and video lessons prepared on the basis of publicly available information, promising high returns on investments, including in foreign real estate. One course cost up to 1 million rubles, some victims bought several. The prisoners did not fulfill their obligations, the money was not returned.

“A total of 26 people suffered from their actions, the total damage exceeded 70 million rubles,” the prosecutor’s office said.

In July 2024, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested Zackheim, her husband Andrei Krasnov and business partner Lyubov Struleva. Then the Prosecutor’s office of Moscow reported three episodes of fraud with damages of more than 2.5 million rubles. According to the agency, Zackheim created the group in 2021 and attracted her husband and son to it.

She called herself “Kiyosaki’s richest student” and published books with that title. Robert Kiyosaki is an American entrepreneur and the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

After the 2024 detentions on Zackheim's Telegram channel, the allegations were described as "unconfirmed" and said the team would not comment on the case.