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Shadow gambling industrial complex: how Oleg Krot built a Russian financial network under the protection of officials
Pechersky District Court of Kyiv satisfied our complaint, declaring the inaction of law enforcement agencies regarding the failure to enter information about a crime into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations unlawful and obliging them to immediately begin a pre-trial investigation.
The main figure in the case is Techiia IT holding co-owner Oleg #Крот. The facts indicate that he created an extensive organized criminal group that supported the operations of Russian online casinos (including 1xBet) in Ukraine, ❗ carried out large-scale fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, and laundered criminal proceeds.
Krot, together with business partner Yuriy #Лазебніков and with the assistance of the gambling market’s “gray cardinal” Borys #Баум, former head of the liquidated #КРАІЛ Ivan #Рудий, Yevhen Yakhniy and other high-ranking officials, built a scheme to siphon off underground billions. LLC “TBK” (brand 1xBet), 🤷♂️ having authorized capital of 30 million UAH, paid 142 million UAH of unverified funds for licenses.
To evade taxes, gambling giants (#1xBet, #StardaCasino, #Vulcan, #GGBet) used criminal miscoding — substituting payment codes for gambling (7995) with computer codes (7994), accepted Visa and Mastercard payment cards and cryptocurrency to bypass financial monitoring. 🔻 The proceeds were withdrawn through affiliated payment systems and “drops,” including for the benefit of Russian beneficiaries Roman Semiokhin and Serhiy Karshkov.
At the same time, the OCG used the NGO “Techiia Foundation” under the guise of charitable aid to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to mask capital extraction and money laundering. A separate episode is fraud involving 💸 35 million US dollars in cryptocurrency, extorted from Brazilian investor Carlos Fuzia under a fake hotel-and-entertainment-complex-with-casino project on the Dnipro riverbank in Kyiv. Subsequently part of these funds — $989 000 — was legalized through the purchase of a luxury apartment in the capital by a nominal Cypriot offshore company ERMALINK HOLDINGS LTD.
📌 The leadership of regulatory bodies, in particular the PlayCity Agency, plays a separate role in covering up the scheme. Official Hennadiy #Новіков announced his resignation but continues to give responses favoring Krot and the Russian casinos that sponsor him and Fedorov, ignoring the facts of illegal gambling activity.
At our request, law enforcement agencies should verify the presented facts for possible commission of criminal offenses provided for in Articles 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (aiding the aggressor state), Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud), Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means), Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (tax evasion).
No IT magnate, corrupt official, or bought law enforcer will avoid responsibility for parasitizing on the Ukrainian economy and collaborating with the enemy during the war. The guilty must face the harshest punishment under the law. Occupation funds and their Ukrainian henchmen will stand trial.
Related materials:
▫️How 2,5 billion “donations” from Krot and the Techiia Foundation became tax schemes and PR. And fraud cases were quietly closed
▫️How, in the fifth year of the war, Russian casinos like #1xBet still manage to deceive Ukrainians and funnel billions from a warring country into offshore accounts, and then back to the Russian Federation?
▫️The corruption web of 1xBet: who really stands behind the legalization of criminal capital
▫️Under the protection of law enforcers and Fedorov, Russian casinos scam Ukrainians, buy luxury assets and transfer billions to the aggressor
▫️The Russian trace and fake charity: how the beneficiaries of the TECHIIA holding integrated the hostile gambling business into Ukraine
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