A 47-year-old Russian-born woman has been sentenced to 21 years in jail for attempted murder of her lookalike using poisoned cheesecake in an identity documents theft plot.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, gave her friend and beautician, Olga Tsvyk, poisoned cheesecake in 2016 before stealing her passport and American work permit.This week Nasyrova was sentenced for attempted murder by the Queens supreme court in New York as Tsvyk lived to tell the tale.Tsvyk told the court Nasyrova ate two pieces of the dessert she brought as a gift for her while she visited her home.
This was before Nasyrova gave her one slice laced with a Russian drug, Phenazepam, causing her toNasyrova took her passport, money and work permit. She also left pills around Tsvyk’s body to make it look like suicide.“God gave me life when Viktoria Nasyrova tried to end my life. For her, it was an easy thing to try to take the life of another person,” the beautician was quoted as having said.
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