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.

Update 22nd May 2025 – 
In what appears to be an attempt to conceal evidence of past fraud, shortly after this article was published Okhotnikov nuked Meta Whale’s YouTube channel.

As at the time of this update all videos dating back to Forsage have been marked private.

The only videos available on the channel (which dates back to Forsage across multiple names), is an October 2024 Meta Force marketing video and two recent Meta Whale videos (one of which is cited in this article).

🤖 Quick Answer

What happened to Lado Okhotnikov's Holiverse Ponzi scheme?
Holiverse, operated by wanted fugitive Vladimir "Lado" Okhotnikov from the former Meta Force website domain, collapsed. Its official Twitter account was suspended, all references to Holiverse were deleted from Meta Force's social media channels, and the previous website domain was redirected to a new project called Meta Whale.

What is Meta Whale and how does it relate to Holiverse?
Meta Whale is a reboot announced by Okhotnikov and accomplice Sofi Zotova, a Ukrainian model studying at Tbilisi State Medical University. The project's website, meta-whale.com, was privately registered on February 9, 2025, and replaced the former Meta Force domain without explaining where prior investor funds went.

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