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Companies linked to Netpeak and Artem Borodatiuk that worked and paid taxes in Russia for years are scrubbing the internet of Russian traces
Despite public statements about a complete break with Russia, entities connected to Artem Borodatiuk and Netpeak Group continued to operate in Russia for years and to fill the aggressor country’s budget with taxes. Russian legal entities “Netpik” and Ringostat paid millions of rubles even after 24 February 2022, and the service is still used on almost a third of its sites in Russia. After investigations, attempts are being made to hide traces of these ties.
We publish the material in full — to show exactly how the Ukrainian IT business remained in the aggressor’s orbit.
Despite Netpeak Group’s public statement of 9 March 2022 that it would completely cease working with clients from Russia and Belarus, Russian legal entities connected to the company continued to operate for a long time. One of them — the former LLC “Netpik” — was renamed after 24 February and was liquidated only in January 2023. Over its years of operation it transferred more than 23 million rubles to the Russian budget. Another legal entity associated with the Ringostat service continued to pay taxes in 2022–2025. At the same time, according to BuiltWith, Ringostat is still used on almost every third site of its client base in Russia.
StopKor analysts examined open sources and analyzed official registry data. They uncovered a number of facts that may signal an incomplete exit of Borodatiuk’s structures from the Russian market after 24 February 2022.
Netpeak Group is a group of more than 25 IT companies, founded and led by CEO Artem Borodatiuk. According to LIGA.net, as of last year its clients included well-known Ukrainian and international businesses: monobank, Samsung, Uber, Peugeot, and others.
Meanwhile, in July the Telegram channel of the detective bureau Absolution Leaks published a series of posts drawing attention to the history of Artem Borodatiuk’s business cooperation with Russian companies before 2022, as well as to the public image of the entrepreneur as a member of the Presidential Council for Business Support.
Notably, Artem Borodatiuk himself publicly confirms membership in the Presidential Council for Business Support and emphasizes that Netpeak Group’s cooperation with the state is pro bono — he said this in an interview with the Kyiv Post in April 2025. That removes questions about the mere fact of proximity to the authorities — it is public and not hidden.
But that does not remove a separate question, which is very important for society during a full-scale war: did the business structures connected to Borodatiuk really fully sever ties with the aggressor country’s market, as was officially declared?
"We stopped working with Russia": the statement of 9 March 2022
On 9 March 2022 Netpeak Group publicly announced that the agencies Netpeak and Inweb had stopped cooperating with clients from Russia and Belarus, and that the services Serpstat, Ringostat, Netpeak Software and AcademyOcean had frozen accounts of users from the aggressor countries — according to the company’s official statement, which also quoted AIN.ua. This statement became the starting point for fact-checking.
Despite the above statements about leaving Russia, a key Russian entity of the group appears to have shown surprising vitality. This is indicated by a number of legal and financial “traces.”
Trace No. 1: an accredited Netpik branch that operated in Russia since 2012
The public registry of the Russian Federal Tax Service for accredited branches of foreign legal entities contains a record of the Branch of LLC “NETPIK,” which operated in Russia from 27.04.2012 to 27.04.2015 and was headed by Dmytro Pyskariev. The Russian presence format was recorded as “branch of a foreign legal entity,” and the foreign entity was listed as the Ukrainian LLC “NETPIK” (code 37184690).
The data are confirmed by the official registry of the FTS of the Russian Federation and FTS open data. This is very important in the context of what followed.
A separate record was found for another legal entity, LLC “CONSULT PROFESSIONAL” (TIN 7717793878). Analysis of Russian registries revealed an illustrative detail: on 21 April 2022 — two months after the start of the full-scale invasion — the company changed its name from LLC “NETPIK” to its current name.
Rebranding or an attempt to mask a likely Ukrainian origin of the business in order to preserve a presence in the aggressor’s market?
This legal entity was liquidated only in 30.01.2023 — that is, almost a year after Netpeak Group’s statement about ceasing operations in Russia. The data are confirmed by company cards on RBC Companies and in the SPARK-Interfax database.
According to financial data from the FTS open registries, summarized on reputation.ru and list-org.com, this company increased revenue from 413 thousand rubles to over 109 million rubles in the 2014–2021 years, and total net profit for the reporting period exceeded 32,8 million rubles. The company paid at least 23,127 million rubles in taxes and mandatory payments to the Russian budget in 2017–2022, of which 9 054 rubles were paid in 2022, already during the full-scale invasion (data for 2022 come from the FTS open data archive package).
The sum is not that large by IT industry standards, but the fact remains: a company connected to a Ukrainian entrepreneur continued to exist and was registered as a taxpayer to the aggressor country’s budget for almost a year after the start of its full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
Notably, according to the Russian resource ALLSEO, the company with the Netpeaik.Ru website for a long time listed the group’s founder, Artem Borodatiuk, as its general director.
Trace No. 2: Ringostat and its Russian “double”
The most sensitive discovery concerns the product Ringostat — a call-tracking and end-to-end analytics service that Netpeak/FRACTAL publicly positions as its own Ukrainian development.
Whereas “Netpik,” judging by the indicators, was likely being prepared for closure, another group project — the call-tracking service Ringostat — on the contrary showed financial growth. Its activities in Russia, according to the Fractal site, were provided by LLC “Performance Profi,” later renamed LLC “CONSULT PLUS” (TIN 7708393658).
According to List-Org, the historic founder of Russian LLC “Consult Plus” (formerly “Performance Profi”) from 28.01.2021 to 22.03.2023 was Dmytro Pyskariev — the same person who earlier headed Netpik’s Russian branch.
The product with the details of this Russian company (TIN 7708393658) was historically hosted on ringostat.com, as seen from an archived copy of the contacts page on Netpeak.ru and the profile on fractal.partners.
This Russian legal entity continued financial activity after 2022. According to official FTS registries (2022, 2023, 2024), the company transferred at least 5,07 million rubles to the Russian federal budget and funds in 2022, and in total for 2021–2025 paid no less than 9,718 million rubles.
Revenue and requisites data also match the company card on B2B.house: the legal address of the company until December 2023 was the same Ulansky Lane in Moscow that appears in descriptions of the Ringostat project on Russian niche sites eto-razvod.ru and resize-web.ru. This company was liquidated only in 14.05.2025.
Such sums are hard to write off as “frozen accounts.” This is likely a sign of large-scale commercial activity in the heart of the aggressor country. Moreover, one of the group’s key top managers, Dmytro Pyskariev, remained an official founder of “Consult Plus” with a 100% stake until 22 March 2023. This contradicts public statements about a complete severing of ties with Russia in February–March 2022.
Additional analysis of links around LLC “CONSULT PLUS” shows that there are related Russian companies with typical risk signs: companies seemingly set up to legalize funds, having short lifespans, liquidated or removed from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities due to unreliable information, having minimal staff, self-ownership of shares, frequent changes of participants, and combinations of incompatible OKVEDs. In this network appear IT/software companies (ADJAIL, ONLINE DEALER), companies trading computer/electronic equipment (MAGNETIK, ALTEK) and companies in video surveillance/security systems (VIDEOGLAZ CENTER).
Accordingly, we assume that the activities of all these companies could also have contributed to filling the Russian budget.
Trace No. 4: 29,3% of Ringostat sites are from Russia, as of 2026
StopKor analysts also checked the purely technical trace — independent of any corporate documents. According to the international site-technology analysis service BuiltWith, as of 2026 Ringostat is used by 1701 “live” sites, and BuiltWith classifies 498 of them as Russia — about 29,3% of the entire base, the second-largest Ringostat market after Ukraine. Practically every third site with the Ringostat script is Russian.
This is also confirmed by the technical trace: connection codes to script.ringostat.com were found, in particular, on the sites sharlot.ru, expertproperty.ru and omnicomm.pro. In addition, the product has working integrations with CRMs most popular on the Russian and CIS market — Bitrix24 and amoCRM/Kommo, which is described in detail in the service’s knowledge base: integration with Bitrix24 and integration with amoCRM.
Notably, in 2024 Ringostat publicly urged Ukrainian clients on its site to abandon those CRMs as “Russian or disguised as neutral” — meaning the product is technically configured to work with the same market that the company publicly warns others about.
The Cyprus circuit: who could benefit?
The corporate structure of Artem Borodatiuk’s businesses is branched and, according to YouControl, includes legal entities in Ukraine, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland, the UK and Kazakhstan.
Particular attention should be paid to the Cypriot AB Digital Horizon Syndicate Limited (registration number HE 451879) — according to the Cyprus Companies Register, its director is Anna Rossidu and its secretary is Pantelis Vorkas.
The law firm Michael Vorkas & Partners, associated with the company secretary, publicly lists working with Russian corporations and wealthy Russians (Russian HNWI) among its practice areas.
Anna Rossidu appears as a nominal director in hundreds of companies in both the Ukrainian and Russian markets — a common Cypriot service model that is not a crime in itself but can create an opaque picture of the real beneficiaries.
What does this mean from a legal perspective?
The detected combination of circumstances — historical presence in Russia, late liquidation of related Russian legal entities, continued tax payments to the aggressor’s budget after 24.02.2022, and an active technical presence of the product in the Russian market — requires qualified legal evaluation.
If it is confirmed that structures within Artem Borodatiuk’s orbit after 22 February 2022 indeed continued doing business in Russia and filling its budget with taxes, such actions may have signs of grave crimes against the foundations of Ukraine’s national security:
Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Assistance to the aggressor state) — due to support of Russia’s economic potential;
Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Financing actions committed with the aim of changing Ukraine’s borders);
Art. 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Financing terrorism) — since taxes are paid into the budget of a state recognized as a sponsor of terrorism;
Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Legalization of proceeds obtained by criminal means) — due to use of convoluted offshore schemes.
We emphasize: this is only a preliminary editorial assessment based on facts discovered by our analysts, not a suspicion or accusation — only competent law enforcement and oversight bodies may state the presence or absence of a crime, and even more so the guilt of specific persons, based on the results of an investigation of the uncovered facts.
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