Russian woman accused of trying to poison her Brooklyn doppelganger with cheesecake so she could steal her identity appears in court

A con woman who is accused of drugging and stealing from lovers, and attempting to kill her lookalike to steal her identity in New York appeared in court today. 

Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, had a hearing in Queens Supreme Court on allegations she tried to poison her doppelganger with cheesecake so she could steal her identity.

The once dominatrix left the court with the help of a cane. 

She has a 10-count indictment including counts for attempted murder, burglary and assault. She requested a new private attorney, instead of a court-appointed lawyer

The court appearance comes four years after she was arrested over the allegations in March 2017.

She is accused of trying to poison her doppelganger with tainted cheesecake, before allegedly attempted to finish the job with deadly soup the following day, her victim claims. 

Nasyrova befriended Olga Tsvyk by getting eyelashes extensions at the salon Tsvyk worked at. 

Nasyrova allegedly offered her a cheesecake tainted with phenazepam, a powerful Russian-made tranquilizer.

When Tsvyk threw up the cake, Nasyrova allegedly came back the next day with a spiked chicken soup that sent Tsvyk to a three-day coma.  

She fled to New York in 2014 while she was being investigated by Russian police in relation to the murder of Alla Alekseenko, 54. 

Nasayrova was allegedly able to escape Russia by having sex with a local police officer. Interpol then issued a red notice for her arrest for murder. 

Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, appeared in Queens Supreme Court on August 10

In the hearing, she requested a private attorney, instead of a court-appointed one 

Interpol issued a red notice for Nasyrova's arrest in relation to the murder of Alla Alekseenko 

A private detective located Nasyrova by taking a close look at the reflection in her glasses on a selfie she had posted on Facebook. 'After poring over pictures I realized the stitching on the leather car seat in one of her selfies was unique to a high-end Chrysler. I then had my surveillance team scour Sheepshead Bay until we found the vehicle,' private detective Herman Weisberg said 

A private detective located Nasyrova by taking a close look at the reflection in her glasses on a selfie she had posted on Facebook.

The con woman has also faced shoplifting and grand larceny charges in New York after stealing fur coats and allegedly and repeatedly drugging ex-boyfriends so she could steal from them. 

One of her ex-partners has accused her of killing his dog two days before his birthday. 

In a July 2018 interview with CBS, Nasyrova said about all the allegations against her: 'I admit doing a part of it, but I will only talk about it in court.'

After the soup knocked out Tvsyk, Nasyrova then allegedly stole her identity documents and surrounded the passed out Tsvyk with pills in an elaborate suicide set-up.

The shocking crime took place in August 2016 when Nasyrova requested an eyelashes appointment in the home of beautician Tsvyk.  

'She wanted to kill me. She was not sure the poison stayed in me because I threw up,' she said to the Daily News.

After poisoning Tsvyk with the laced soup, Nasyrova rummaged through her things, stealing her passport, authorization card, a gold ring, and cash, it is claimed. 

The landlord found Tsvyk 'dressed in lingerie with pills scattered around her body so it looked like the woman had attempted to kill herself' Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. 

Despite passing out Tsvyk says she recalls Nasyrova going through her things.

Tsvyk, from Ukraine, says Nasyrova was a client for six months before the attack, and bizarrely trekked to her Queens salon despite living in Brooklyn.

'She came all the way (from Brooklyn). I thought it was stupid: "Why do you come from so far away?"' Tsvyk said to Daily News.

She says she was likely targeted for identity theft from the start as the two resemble one another sharing dark hair and the same skin complexion and the two speak Russian.

'She was my client, she was never my friend. Never,' she said.

Nasyrova was arrested March 20, 2017 in Brooklyn after finally being tracked down. 

'I’m not God and I’m not a judge. But she deserves to be in jail. Thank God she can’t hurt anybody else,' Tsvyk said.

If convicted, Nasyrova faces up to 25 years in prison.  

Alekseenko's body was spotted in the front seat of Nasyrova's car by traffic cameras, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed when she was arrested in 2017. Investigators said she was motivated by money.

Nasyrova said in an interview that while she admits to part of what she is accused of doing, she will only talk about it in court 

The con woman allegedly gave Olga Tvsyk a poisoned chicken soup, put her in bed surrounded by pills to make the scene look like a suicide and stole Tvsyk's passport, authorization card, a gold ring, and cash

 Nasyrova is also accused of drugging ex-boyfriends and stealing from them 

The victim's daughter, Nadezda Ford, said she got a text message purporting to be from her missing mother shortly after her mother's disappearance saying: 'Sweetie, don't worry about me, I'll notify you about where I am soon enough.'

But the message came after traffic camera footage appeared to show her mother dead in Nasyrova's passenger seat on the day she disappeared, October 5, 2014.

Alekseenko's body was found months later, and investigators found $17,000 in cash and jewelry missing from her home.

Nasayrova has denied any part in Alekseenko's murder. By November that year she had moved to New York.

Once settled into her home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, police said she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of diamonds and furs, paid for by the men she lured into her life. 

Nasayrova was eventually tracked down last year by private detective Herman Weisberg, who was approached by Ford after she learned her mother's suspected killer was living near to her in Brooklyn.

'A Good Samaritan who knew the daughter of the murdered Russian woman got in touch with me and told me the story,' Weisberg told DailyMail.com. 'She offered to pay whatever cost for me to track her down and bring her to justice.'

Ford 'was living in fear of this woman, had already moved once and was heartbroken over the loss of her mother,' said Weisberg.

The intrepid detective discovered that Nasyrova was still regularly using Facebook under a different name, and found her secret profile.

'After poring over pictures I realized the stitching on the leather car seat in one of her selfies was unique to a high-end Chrysler. I then had my surveillance team scour Sheepshead Bay until we found the vehicle,' the gumshoe said.

The team found the vehicle, a Chrysler 300, and began a stakeout. Weisberg's discovery paid off - they'd located the mysterious fugitive.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Bob Boyce said: 'She's a con artist who meets people online through a dating site and then drugs them at some point, and takes their property from them and flees'.

She was arrested by the NYPD Warrant Squad on an open warrant for the alleged seduction robberies after Weisberg alerted investigators to her location, since Russia doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.

'She embarked on a life of crime here, and we don't have the whole story yet. We only have bits and pieces', Boyce added.

'What’s incredible is that Nasyrova wasn't living like she was on the lam – we pictured her out shopping for a 50-inch widescreen TV,' said Weisberg.

'We think she was empowered by her previous arrest for shoplifting, which didn’t pick up the fact she wanted by Interpol for this murder.'

Nasyrova was arrested in May of 2016 for stealing two furs worth $532 from a Century 21, but wasn't flagged as an international fugitive at the time

Police said Nasyrova enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of diamonds and furs, paid for by the men she lured into her life

Since coming to jail Nasayrova was almost completely blinded during a fight when she claims other inmates ganged up on her and beat her

Nasyrova was arrested in May of 2016 for stealing two furs worth $532 from a Century 21, but wasn't flagged as an international fugitive at the time.

'It would have made her feel like she had slipped the net,' said Weisberg. 'Not now.'

Since coming to jail Nasayrova was almost completely blinded during a fight when she claims other inmates ganged up on her and beat her.

She said that on January 3, 2018, she was cornered in the television room at the Rose M Singer Center on Riker's Island and people started to 'threaten and harass her,' according to notice of claim filed against the city and obtained by the New York Daily News.

One of the women insisted she and Nasyrova 'talk' by the showers, and a Department of Corrections officer followed. But Nasyrova said the officer did not step up and do anything when the woman began punching her in the face and slamming her head into a wall.

She ended up with a broken nose and has almost no visibility in either of her eyes.

'When I opened my eyes, I don't see nothing, I can now only see white,' she told the Daily News.

'Now I have the same vision. I cannot see now. No colors, no shape. Nothing.'