New York Post

'FAST' & FURIOUS AT RIKERS

'Poisoner' dominatrix on hunger strike

- By KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA Additional reporting by Laura Italiano

No cheesecake for her. The Russian dominatrix charged with slipping drugs into the meals of three online “dates” — and attempting to murder a Queens woman with a poisoned cheesecake — has gone on a hunger strike at Rikers Island, she told The Post.

Accused serial poisoner Viktoria Nasyrova said in a jailhouse interview that she is protesting the alleged bad treatment in lockup.

Since Thursday, she claims to have subsisted solely on water — and the only dish she desires is the one best served cold.

“The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of revenge against all those who have wronged me,” Nasyrova seethed in her native Russian.

“Legal revenge, of course, in the courts,” she added hastily.

Nasyrova said her jailors and fellow inmates “told me that I call 311 too much” to complain of “mistreatme­nt and that I will have problems.

“But I will give them problems,” she vowed. “They are making my life unbearable, and I will do all I can to make this jail’s life unbearable.”

Nasyrova has been collecting jailhouse grudges since March 2017, when her arrest in a string of alleged druggings forced her to trade her diamonds and furs in Sheepshead Bay for a life of Rikers squalor.

She was charged in Brooklyn Criminal Court with drugging and stealing from three men she met on online dating sites, and in Queens Criminal Court for allegedly serving poisoned cheesecake to Olga Tsvyk, a Rego Park woman who looks like her and who nearly died in the alleged identity-theft plot.

Nasyrova also is suspected of poisoning a boyfriend’s beagle in summer 2016, but was never charged. And Interpol considers her the suspect in yet another poisoning, this one fatal, in western Russia, in 2013.

That victim, a woman, was a neighbor whom Nasyrova allegedly killed before fleeing to the US.

Nasyrova insists she is innocent of everything, calling her three male accusers liars who “will be washed in filth” at trial. And the cheesecake victim? “Olga must have pulled the poisoned cheesecake from under her pillow,” the suspect said.

Nasyrova is not liked by her fellow inmates and has been in two jailhouse fights. In the first, last May, she confronted an inmate who spat in her food, she said.

“I got up and punched her in the face,” she said.

The second fight, two months ago, was prompted by an argument over the TV remote and left Nasyrova beaten and blinded.

Her civil lawyer, Paul Prestia, has put the city on notice that Nasyrova is planning to sue.

The lawsuit will charge that a female correction officer stood by as the group of rival inmates beat Nasyrova, first in a shower area and then near a TV area.

As of last week, “she still has not had a specialist come and see her” in hopes of saving her sight, Prestia said.

City Department of Correction Spokesman Jason Kersten said, “This individual is being regularly visited by medical staff and is being afforded the same dietary options as any other person in custody.”

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