Viktoria Nasyrova (R) was jailed for 21 years for attempting Olga Svyk (L) in 2016 with a poisoned cheesecake (Picture: Richard L. Harbus for The DailyMail.com)
A Russian-born woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after attempting to kill her doppelganger with a poisoned cheesecake and steal her identity.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, shouted ‘F*** you’ toward the Queens Supreme Court judge who sentenced her to more than two decades in prison on Wednesday.
Nasyrova was previously found guilty of attempted murder, attempted assault and unlawful imprisonment by a New York jury in February the bizarre plot to poison eyelash specialist Olga Tsvyk in August 2016 and make her death look like a suicide.
Tsyvk first met Nasyrova, a former dominatrix, around six months before she was poisoned, the victim shared in court in February.
Viktoriya Nasyrova fled Russia after alledgedly murdering her neighbour and was accused of drugging and robbing men she met on dating sites (Picture: Facebook)
The two became close, and Tsyvk told her friend how she was getting her employment authorization card.
At the time, the two women closely resembled one another – both spoke Russian, had dark hair, the same skin complexion and shared other physical traits.
On the day of the attack, Nasyrova visited the home of her victim and gifted her a cheesecake which had been laced with phenazepam- a powerful sedative.
Tsvyk ate the cake and soon began to feel ill, and passed out after laying down in bed.
When she woke up, she found Nasyrova had scattered pills around her body and stolen her passport, cash, and employment authorization card.
Addressing the court on Wednesday, Tsvyk told the judge and jurors she lived in fear for months after narrowly surviving the attack.
The victim was one of many allegedly targeted by Nasyrova, who fled Russia in 2014 after the murder of her neighbour and has faced accusations of drugging and robbing men she found on dating websites.
Olga Tsvyk was poisoned by Nasyrova, who attempted to steal her identity (Picture: Richard Harbus for DailyMail.com)
Nasyrova, who was infatuated by expensive fur coats and diamonds, was finally captured in 2017 after she was tracked down by the daughter of the woman she is accused of killing in Russia.
Speaking in court, Tsvyk said surviving the poisoning had given her a second chance at life.
‘God gave me life when Viktoria Nasyrova tried to end my life,’ she said. ‘For her, it was an easy thing to try and take the life of another person.
‘It was easy thing to gain the trust of another person and then take everything from that person… it was easy for her to steal. It was easy for her to kill.’
Following the sentencing, district attorney Melinda Katz said: ‘A ruthless and calculating con artist is going to prison for a long time for trying to murder her way to personal profit and gain.’
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Viktoria Nasyrov attempted to kill her lookalike in order to steal her identity.
