Poisoner tried
AFTER A SLICE of poisoned cheesecake left Olga Tsvyk at death’s door, her alleged would-be killer delivered the soup de grace.
Russian scam artist Viktoria Nasyrova served up a near-deadly dose of tainted chicken broth to the ailing Tsvyk in a callous identity-theft plot targeting the salon worker, the hardy victim said Thursday.
“She wanted to kill me,” Tsvyk told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “She was not sure the poison stayed in me because I threw up.”
Tsvyk said the suspect fled with her passport, employment authorization card, a gold ring and cash — and collected about $100,000 by selling off her clothes and jewelry as she struggled to survive.
“It’s like a very bad movie,” the Ukrainian immigrant told The News. “Sometimes I really don’t believe it happened to me.”
Tsvyk realized only after her neardeath experience exactly how much she resembled femme fatale Nasyrova, 42.
“In some pictures, we really do look the same,” said Tsvyk. “We look like two sisters.”
Nasyrova, suspected of murdering a Russian woman with the same tainted treat trick, met Tsvyk as a client at her beauty salon about six months before the Aug. 28, 2016, murder try.
That day, Nasyrova asked if she could come to Tsvyk’s Forest Hills home to get her eyelashes done because of a scheduling conflict and an upcoming vacation.
“I didn’t like bringing people to my home, but she said, ‘Please, please,’” Tsvyk recalled. “She was very friendly, very nice, and I said OK because I’m thinking it would take 10 minutes.
“She called me before and said she’s going to bring me cheesecake — it’s from the best bakery in Brooklyn.”
Nasyrova ate two pieces before giving a third slice to Tsvyk, who nibbled at the cheesecake and was soon vomiting. She spent the night sick in bed, and remained in a daze when Nasyrova appeared at her home the next morning with the chicken soup.
Tsvyk, 37, slipped into a coma after slurping down some soup, spending three days in the hospital as she recovered. Her sister flew in from Ukraine to aid the ailing woman while Nasyrova allegedly headed out with her new identity.
And then Tsvyk, in a “Law & Order” instant, solved the mystery like Detective Lennie Briscoe: “It was the cheesecake. She poisoned me.”
Other pieces of the puzzle fell into place: Tsvyk said Nasyrova dressed her in a nightgown and tossed a handful of pills around her bed to make the scene look like a suicide.