The 2016 Cheesecake Poisoning Of Olga Tsvyk

Instead of getting medical assistance, People writes that Viktoria Nasyrova proceeded to steal from Olga Tsvyk. Nasyrova took $4,000 in cash, a red purse, a ring, Tsvyk’s Ukrainian passport, and her U.S.-issued employment authorization card. The New York Post states that Nasyrova also gave Tsvyk phenazepam-laced chicken soup and sprinkled pills all over her body when she again lost consciousness. Two days after Tsvyk was poisoned, Iryna Kozachenko, her sister, flew to New York from Ukraine and took her to the hospital. Tsvyk survived, but Kozachenko later said she was so sick that she “looked like a vegetable.”

According to People, the authorities arrested Nasyrova in March 2017 and found Tsvyk’s passport on her (via Oxygen). They, however, were well aware of Nasyrova. Per NBC New York, police allege that she drugged and robbed various men she met on dating sites before making a run for it. Fox News reports that the authorities, which found her DNA on the cheesecake container, questioned Nasyrova and asked her if she poisoned Tsvyk. She denied it and said, “I did not force her to eat the cheesecake.'” But why would Nasyrova poison Tsvyk in the first place?

Prosecutors claim that Nasyrova intended to kill Tsvyk to take her identity. Assistant District Attorney Konstantinos Litourgis explained (via Fox News), “Everything was done in this case very carefully and very methodically by this defendant … not only did she poison Olga in order to impersonate her … she also staged her bedroom to make it look like suicide.”