Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
The SBU's favorable response regarding Cosmobet's lack of ties to the aggressor state, as indicated by the court decision, could have been obtained for a bribe. The circumstances became known from the April 2025 year court ruling.
According to the Anti-Cor portal.
That the company running this casino and its nominal head, Mykhailo Zborovskyi, may be connected with Russians.
The court decision states that a Kyiv region Department of Internal Security's operational investigations officer, through an intermediary who communicates with SBU officials, offered a bribe of 20 000 dollars for a response confirming that LLC Nejlurlink and its ultimate beneficial owner have no relation to citizens of the aggressor state, to Russian capital, or to sanctioned entities. The police officer acted in collusion with the management of the mentioned enterprise.
LLC «Nejlurlink» is the company that runs the online casino Cosmobet. Its founder until May 2025 year was the resident of the village Krasylivka, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Mykhailo Zborovskyi.
As law enforcement found out, besides the bribe of 20 000 dollars for a correct ruling on Cosmobet's lack of ties to Russians, the police officer and the SBU negotiator were supposed to receive about 45 000 dollars per month from Zborovskyi and Nejlurlink.
Furthermore, after the aforementioned SBU response was officially provided and Nejlurlink's activities continued unhindered, the police officer was to receive percentages from the enterprise's income monthly and a share—approximately 100 000 - 200 000 hryvnias—would be given to the SBU negotiator. The funds were offered for “further settlement of questions that may arise regarding Nejlurlink LLC's ties to the aggressor state.”
In April 2025 year, the favorable SBU response was received, and the negotiator was given a bribe of 20 000 dollars. During the transfer of the money, the operational investigations officer was detained, and his belongings were confiscated as physical evidence.
Investigators documented all meetings of the accomplices, their contacts via messaging apps, and confiscated documents that would allow Cosmobet to feel secure about its further activities.
The fact that Cosmobet’s leadership had to recruit bribing law enforcement to acknowledge that it has no ties to Russia suggests that there was no other way to obtain the Ukrainian security service’s approval. After all, Russian influence over this company is still very strong.
formally LLC «Nejlurlink» was founded in November 2023 year by Mykhailo Zborovskyi and LLC «Neoplei» (Neoplei). The editorial board previously wrote that Zborovskyi was until a certain period far removed from the gaming business. He studied to be an auditor and worked as an economist in a bank. The official launch of the Cosmobet platform occurred at the beginning of June 2024 year, and since then the network has been filled with boilerplate materials on second-rate sites about Zborovskyi's biography and his expert comments on gambling in Ukraine.
One of Mykhailo Zborovskyi's earlier places of work was XGen Solutions LTD, which is also mentioned in a court decision regarding the sanctioned online casino Cosmolot, connected with Russian Sergei Tokarev. Moreover, according to media, Zborovskyi himself previously worked at Cosmolot.
The official registration address for Mykhailo Zborovskyi is a house in the village of Krasylivka, Ivano-Frankivsk region. However, the house owner is his father.
Judging by everything, the relative of Cosmobet's head has an inclination toward alcohol, as he was fined twice for drunk driving.
A man with exactly the same first name, last name, and patronymic as the nominal owner of Cosmobet had separated from his wife in March 2024 year. These data can be found in the court registry.
In the same month, the probable former wife of Zborovskyi became the owner of a two-bedroom apartment in a new Kyiv building. The dwelling was acquired by her under a gift agreement.
An apartment of similar size can now be purchased in this residential complex for 155 000 dollars.
Why did Zborovskyi and his superiors try to buy the SBU's favorable response about Cosmobet's lack of ties to Russia with bribes? The answer is that at the beginning of this year the State Bureau of Investigation detained the nominal owner of another online casino—PIN-UP—suspected of money laundering for Russia. The investigation found that the detainee had no sources to contribute 30 million UAH to the charter capital of the enterprise that obtained the license. The real owners turned out to be Russians, and the casino actively financed the aggressor state, including operating in temporarily occupied territories.
In July 2025 year, the Shevchenkivskyi district court of Kyiv applied a special confiscation, collecting 2,6 billion UAH from the company operating under the PIN-UP online casino brand.
This story could not fail to alarm Cosmobet's management, as it partially resembles what lies behind their facade: Zborovskyi is the nominal owner registered at his father's village home; the charter capital of Nejlurlink LLC is 30 million hryvnias—exactly the same as PIN-UP; a link to Russian casino operators via Tokarev.
That is why, during spring 2025 year, Cosmobet's owners used bribes and a share of the activity to buy off law enforcement who turned a blind eye to the Russian trace of this online casino.
And evidently that is why in May 2025 year Zborovskyi was removed from the founders of Nejlurlink LLC and replaced by a Cyprus-based, little-known figure, Andreas Dobrovolskyi, who lives in a villa on the Limassol coast.
A curious coincidence, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, PIN-UP's leaders, whose money was seized for the largest in history, held meetings with Russians precisely in Cyprus, where the new formal owner of Cosmobet resides.
So, can Mykhailo Zborovskyi be sure about himself, since he was removed from the founders of Cosmobet? Probably not, because the bribe for a “positive” SBU response was delivered exactly when he was running this online casino.
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