Wanted fugitive Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov has rebranded his collapsed Meta Force Ponzi as Holiverse.

Holiverse was announced on October 10th, 2024:

The reboot follows Meta Force’s collapse in late 2022, and two years of Okhotnikov stringing along gullible investors – mostly from India.

As of December 2024, SimilarWeb tracked top sources of traffic to Holiverse’s website as India (61), Germany (17%) and Russia (14%).

Russia issued a Meta Force fraud warning back in 2022.

With Holiverse Okhotnikov had a chance to be honest with investors about Meta Force collapsing due to a lack of new investment. Instead Okhotnikov trotted out baloney about “internal sabotage” and “malicious actors”.

Today is December 20, 2024. Many of you are wondering why it is taking so long for such a great company to recover? What is going on? When will everything finally be OK?

And this is a reasonable question, of course. Because technically we had everything to restore the system by now and it would have already been if not for sabotage, betrayal. The most vile betrayal imaginable, from people who I naively considered our own.

The sabotage occurred throughout the Meta Force period. For a long time I wasn’t happy with the management and work of many departments, and was looking for ways to fix it.

I began to take action by attracting new teams and as well as launching new projects without relying on the old team.

When the traitors realized they were losing control, they made the move.

In September they hacked and stole funds from smart contracts. Many of you might have guessed this although we didn’t report it. Not wanting to sow fear in the community. But that’s not the worst.

They stole all the codes and the database with the referral system and left everything [in] a broken state for us.

Uh, backups? Hello?

Recently, as many of you know, there was a DDOS attack. It turned out that this attack was actually built into the sites’ code. Left behind by the old team.

Soon after the scammers started contacting many of the leaders of our community. Telling them that, “the Lado project was about [to] collapse.”

But they claimed they had everything needed to launch a new project. Basically a copy of ours.

They also spread negativity about us, incite criminals against us and tried to organize provocations. They’re waging a ware against us.

We have already taken all measures. We are working with law enforcement agencies and top cyber security experts.

My message to the scammers is simple:

Return the funds and data you stole. This will speed up everything.

We have enough evidence and clues but most likely they are too greedy to listen. Too envious to realize reality.

So, we are not waiting for them anymore. Yes, we tried to negotiate with them for a while but it was [a] waste of time. Now we’re taking action.

It is very hard. It is scary. When it feels like everything is falling apart and slipping out of control, the easiest thing would have been to give up. Walk away and start something new from scratch.

But I will never abandon the community. I will fight for you.

I determined to rebuild and make the company even better for you. Right now we’re auditing all departments and have brought in a new high-level team.

I am surrounded by people who are fully committed to the mission.

We’ve also learned from the past mistakes and are now not only building external but also internal protection. The system should not defend on the human factor anymore.

At the same time we are finalizing the legal aspects, so that any participant can feel confident and safe in any country.

This will also allow us to open company offices all over the world.

Next week we’ll share more details.

It would have of course been easier for Okhotnikov to admit Meta Force’s withdrawals exceed new investment – but here we are.

In a nutshell, Holiverse is more of the same fraud carrying over from Meta Force. Meta Force’s metaverse grift has been replaced with a gaming grift:

What is Royalty?

Royalty is a status program where you receive Royalty bonuses, implemented in the form of NFTs. The status program consists of 7 levels of NFTs. Royalty bonuses are accrued based on the total turnover of Holiverse programs.

How can I get Royalty?

You need to reach level 5 in the Tactile GameAf system and level 3 in Uniteverse GameAf to create Just NFTs.

NFTs are still being used to track investment positions. And holichain (HC) has been created as a new company token to continue soliciting investment through (Meta Force solicited investment in BUSD).

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

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. Having failed to turn himself in, Oknotnikov remains a fugitive wanted by US authorities.

Oknikov’s fugitive status makes his Holiverse nonsense about “working with law enforcement agencies” all the more amusing.

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

Looking forward, the last announcement Holiverse published was a January 21st YouTube video on Holidex:

A visit to HoliDex’s website reveals, as of February 7th 2025, redirection to a dodgy Vietnamese casino.