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The Kalmykov family and three women are on trial for crypto exchange tax evasion of 71 million UAH.
Hundreds of thousands of euros and kilograms of silver found in safes
At the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kharkiv, since 2023 the court has been hearing a case about an organized group that, according to investigators, exchanged cash for crypto without a license and without paying taxes.
Defendants
✔️Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Kalmykov
✔️Serhii Oleksandrovych Kalmykov
✔️Artem Oleksandrovych Kalmykov
✔️Tetyana Volodymyrivna Morozova
✔️Valeriia Valeriivna Bezpiata
✔️Olena Oleksandrivna Babenko
Proceeding No. 12020100020004627 opened 28 October 2020: organized group, tax evasion, money laundering. Separately, the materials also include Case No. 12022100020004232 from December 2022 with the same composition regarding the search for a person who fled abroad.
What they are charged with
The investigation of the Darnytsia Police Department of Kyiv describes the scheme as follows. In 2017 the two organizers assembled a group for exchange sites like master-change. People sent hryvnia, foreign currency, or crypto to participants’ cards. Those then laundered the funds further — without customer identification, without a financial services license, and without personal income tax and military levy.
In 2018 two more operatives were connected, in 2019 another one. An economic expert assessment calculated the underpayment to the budget for the years 2017–2020: 71,05 million UAH.
The prosecutor writes they invested the proceeds in apartments, land, and precious metals.
A second branch — "rearrangements" through ha
A separate part of the materials concerns sites like bit-exchanger ru and dealings with Yandex.Money, WebMoney, QIWI, Wallet One. These systems are under RNSB sanctions and in the sight of the National Bank of Ukraine. Cash, according to investigators, was accepted and dispensed at exchange network locations in Ukraine, abroad, and in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk. Some offices hid behind the details of companies with an NBU license.
Coordination, investigators attribute to a native of Sakhnovshchyna in Kharkiv region and a native of Sloviansk. The Kyiv office, according to the materials, was run by a relative from the same Sakhnovshchyna.
What was seized from safes and apartments
In individual safes at Ukrsibbank in Kharkiv, Constitution Square, 26:
safe No. 057 — 316,5 thousand euros;
safe No. 058 — 300 thousand dollars and another 330 thousand euros.
In the home of one organizer of the Kharkiv office: over 51 thousand dollars, hundreds of euro banknotes, small rubles, three one-kilogram bank silver bars of 999 fineness and 1 151 bar weighing 250 grams. Plus nine cards.
In another Kharkiv residence: 55,4 thousand dollars, 1,5 thousand euros, 60 thousand UAH, 13 twenty-pound notes, a stack of Apple and Asus laptops, a crypto wallet, flash drives.
At an exchange office in a first-floor lobby they seized cash in several dozen currencies at once: 78,5 thousand dollars, 3 415 euros, 445 461 UAH, 25 000 rubles, krona, forints, yuan, baht, shekels, yen, francs, tenge.
In the Kyiv client service office of bit-exchanger: 328 silver bars and stacks resembling 40 thousand, 176,53 thousand and 170 thousand dollars plus 19 thousand euros. In the safes of the then-Sberbank — another 1 076 bars and 20 thousand euros. In the rented apartment of the Kyiv office manager — 734 bars of 250 grams each.
The trial has been going for four years
The court accepted the indictment in June 2023. Written evidence has already been examined. Of the prosecution’s witnesses, two were questioned in January 2026. The rest with 19 surnames in the investigation registry did not attend the hearing.
On 24 July 2026 the defense asked to force the prosecutor to finally provide a witness list and ensure their attendance: the case is stalled, equality of the parties is being broken, Article 6 of the Convention on a reasonable time. The prosecutor replied that the list is already in the registry — from one to nineteen, two per hearing.
The court partly granted the defense’s motion. Witnesses were scheduled for 4 and 25 September and 2 October 2026. Attendance was assigned to the Darnytsia District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv. For one witness a summons was ordered through the Darnytsia Police Department.
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