Russian dominatrix found guilty of poisoning lookalike friend with cheesecake
A Russian dominatrix has been found guilty of attempted murder after poisoning her lookalike friend with cheesecake.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, sloppily left her DNA all over the cheesecake box — and later blabbed about the crime in several jailhouse interviews, prosecutors in New York said.
“She laced a slice of cheesecake with a deadly drug so she could steal her unsuspecting victim’s most valuable possession, her identity,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “Fortunately, her victim survived and the poison led right back to the culprit.”
Nasyrova’s defence attorney had tried to kneecap the prosecution by arguing the victim, eyelash stylist Olga Tsvyk, had originally told an NYPD detective that she’d randomly chosen a piece of the dessert — meaning his client would have been playing Russian roulette when she ate the other two.
But the jury didn’t buy it, and found the Russian-born alleged serial poisoner guilty of attempted murder, assault and other charges, the New York Post reported.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder is set to sentence Nasyrova, from Brooklyn, on March 21. She faces up to 25 years in prison.
Tsvyk testified that Nasyrova — who allegedly fled to New York after killing a Russian neighbour and torching her body in 2014 — said she wanted to bring as a gift “some famous cheesecake from a famous bakery”.
Nasyrova quickly ate two pieces herself, Tsvyk told the jury, then offered her the third, which prosecutors said was laced with the powerful Russian tranquilliser Phenazepam.
