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Cosmobet leak: four casinos and one Russian with a Romanian passport.
There are two online casinos in Ukraine with nearly identical space-themed names — Cosmolot and Cosmobet. The first is run by the company Spaceix, the second by Neurolink. The names weren’t hard to come up with: SpaceX and Neuralink are two of Elon Musk’s best-known companies. In short, they approached Musk’s legacy creatively: they didn’t build rockets or neurointerfaces, but they copied the names almost without error. Both casinos have at different times been linked to a Russian citizen who obtained a Romanian passport, named Sergey Tokarev.
Outside Ukraine there is another Cosmolot and another Cosmobet. Formally they belong to different companies and have no relation to the Ukrainian casinos. That fact doesn’t stop four casinos from using two identical names. There are also no brand lawsuits between them, which makes running an international business somewhat easier.
Cosmolot has a fairly long history: it was once one of the best-known illegal online casinos in Russia and Ukraine. After gambling was legalized in Ukraine, the casino obtained a license through the company Spaceix. Then a British investor, Arnulf Damerau, appeared in 2024 and his company Nevada Gaming Holding announced the purchase of a controlling stake in Cosmolot and plans to take the casino to the international market. After that — a blank spot: in 2026 the European Cosmolot suddenly ends up registered to Avaroncore Holding from the British Virgin Islands. Who stands behind it and how the brand got there is unclear, since the British Virgin Islands exist precisely for cases like this, and so far nobody, unfortunately, has hacked them.
But Curaçao was hacked. And there the second protagonist of this story — Cosmobet — was discovered. If Cosmolot’s chain ends in the British Virgin Islands, the international Cosmobet’s chain goes through Curaçao, the Marshall Islands, and several other jurisdictions, and all the documents are prepared by Colombian lawyers — thankfully not Colombian agronomists.
The international Cosmobet is run by Santeda International B.V., registered in Curaçao, previously called Onyxion B.V. Since September 2019, 100% of the company was owned by Georgian citizen Onise Chimakhidze. Moreover, Santeda was closely connected with Georgian UpGaming: its employees, corporate addresses, and gaming contracts transferred to the company appear in the documents.
On 29 May 2026, Chimakhidze transferred all Santeda shares to Chinese citizen Xianbo Wei (Xianbo Wei). From that moment Wei became the sole owner and ultimate beneficial owner of the company operating the international Cosmobet.
As a result there are four formally independent casinos: two Cosmolot and two Cosmobet. The owners of the identical brands do not demand that each other change their name, shut down a site, or explain in court who owns the name. It’s possible all four businesses really are completely independent and simply get along extraordinarily well with their neighbors.
Some will say this still doesn’t prove a common owner. Others will say that Sergey Tokarev, after his run-in with the illegal “Kosmolot” and “Vulkan,” which was accompanied by criminal cases and sanctions, has simply become very good at hiding his tracks.
The full set of documents on Santeda International B.V — here.
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