Man paid a Fort Lauderdale company $174,648 for ‘fake’ NSU acceptance letters, lawsuit says

A Fort Lauderdale company that offers to help foreign students enroll as exchange students at American universities took more than $174,000 and delivered “fake” acceptance letters from Nova Southeastern University, a federal lawsuit alleges.

The company, Travelworks, is registered with the Florida Division of Corporations as doing business at a Fort Lauderdale address, along with another company, StudyGRI. Denis Smorchkov is listed as president of Travelworks and as registered agent of StudyGRI.

Smorchkov, Travelworks and StudyGRI are all named as defendants in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale by Pavel Solovev, a Russian-speaking Canadian resident.

According to the lawsuit, Solovev hired Travelworks in an effort to get his daughter, Kristina Solovyoff, enrolled into Nova Southeastern or another university in the U.S. He did the same for her boyfriend, Daniil Lapshin.