Wanted fugitive Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov’s Holiverse Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Roughly a fortnight ago, Okhotnikov and accomplice Sofi Zotova, a Ukrainian model studying at Tbilisi State Medical University, announced a Meta Whale reboot.

Unfortunately for investors dating back to Forsage wondering where their money went, Meta Whale is more of the same nonsense.

Holiverse operated from the old Meta Force website domain.

Holiverse’s official Twitter account has been suspended. Any mention or reference to Holiverse on Meta Force’s old socials have been deleted.

A visit to Meta Force’s previous website domain now redirects to “meta-whale.com”, privately registered on February 9th, 2025.

Instead of explaining where investor funds went, Meta Whale’s website promises “something big is coming”:

Despite SimilarWeb tracking just ~18,100 monthly Meta Whale website visits for April 2025, its website claims 2.09 million Meta Whale investors.

Naturally Meta Whale is attached to a new Ponzi shitcoin, WhaleBit (CES). Funds invested into Meta Force and Holiverse are assumed lost (read: misappropriated by Okhotnikov).

Okhotnikov remains wanted by US authorities. In August 2022, the SEC filed civil Forsage fraud charges against Okhotnikov and ten accomplices.

In February 2023 Okhotnikov (right) was indicted on Forsage related criminal charges.

Okhotnikov, believed to hold a Russian passport, was last known to be splitting his time between Georgia (the country) and Dubai.

Meta Whale, as a reboot of Holiverse, marks the eighth Ponzi reboot for Okhotnikov.

Holiverse was a reboot of Meta Force, and Meta Force was a reboot of Okhotnikov’s five-times collapsed Forsage gifting Ponzi.

US authorities allege, to date, Okhotnikov and his accomplices have defrauded consumers out of over $300 million.

Why Georgian authorities continue to take no action against Okhotnikov remains unclear.