In 2014, Nasyrova left Russia after allegedly murdering her neighbor, Alla Alekseenko, and stealing her life savings. “God gave me life when Viktoria Nasyrova tried to end my life,” she said.Īlongside these statements, the judge heard stories about Nasyrova’s disturbing background. “It was an easy thing to gain the trust of another person and then take everything from that person,” Tsvyk continued. She constantly lived in fear that Nasyrova “would come back and finish what she started,” the New York Post reported. Tsvyk told the judge that the experience left her unable to sleep for months, and made her terrified to step out of her home.
“I would spend hours crying myself to sleep, thinking about what happened to me,” Tsvyk stated at trial. With the evidence stacked against her, police arrested Nasyrova in 2017 and held her until her trial this year.įacebook Viktoria Nasyrova (left) and Olga Tsvyk (right).ĭuring the trial, Tsvyk relived the horrifying experience and described the effect it had on her.
Luckily, however, she survived.Īfter recovering from her ordeal, Tsvyk reported the poisoning to the police, and investigators were able to locate the cheesecake container and extract Nasyrova’s DNA. Doctors stated she was “dangerously close to a heart attack,” as reported by the New York Post. The next day, a friend discovered Tsvyk in her bedroom and rushed her to the hospital. She then staged the scene as a suicide, scattering the remaining phenazepam pills around Tsvyk’s body. While Tsvyk lay unconscious, Nasyrova prowled through the home and stole her passport, $4,000, work authorization card, and other belongings.
She was “violently vomiting,” “floating in and out of consciousness,” and became “terrified there was something seriously wrong with her,” Assistant District Attorney Konstantinos Litourgis said, according to a video from the trial. Minutes later, Tsvyk became extremely ill. During her appointment, Nasyrova ate two pieces of cheesecake before giving a third, tainted piece, to Tsvyk. The incident occurred when Nasyrova scheduled an eyelash appointment with Olga Tsvyk, a Ukrainian beautician and friend who bore a striking resemblance to her.Īccording to court documents, Nasyrova picked up a cheesecake from a local bakery and laced a piece with the Russian tranquilizer phenazepam. Nasyrova, 47, resided in Brooklyn, New York, at the time of the crime in 2016. The woman behind the crime, Viktoria Nasyrova, is a Russian national and known con woman who’s been accused of various robberies and even murder. Queens District Attorney’s Office The cheesecake container that held the poisoned treat.Ī New York City court sentenced a Russian woman to 21 years in jail for attempted murder, assault, and other charges after poisoning her doppelgänger with a drug-laced cheesecake in an effort to steal her identity.
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