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After journalists uncovered the true beneficiaries of Cosmobet and the Russian trace behind the gambling business, a large-scale cleanup operation began on the Internet: investigative publications and all hints that could lead to the key figures of the construct increasingly disappeared from search results.
Therefore we are releasing the material again, which apparently is being erased from the Internet to hide those who control Cosmobet through nominal owners and offshore structures.
He appeared from nowhere—and began disappearing just as quickly. A young IT specialist with no notable past suddenly turned out to be the beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar casino. His footprints in the registries are being erased, his biography disappears, and glossy legends take their place. This is not merely a game for money. It is a story about how in the Ukrainian gambling market systems for concealing Russian capital operate.
When the Cosmobet brand appeared on the Ukrainian gambling market, it seemed like a project of a new generation: an attractive website, a license, heavy advertising, and a young “tech expert” at the top—Mykhailo Zborovskyi. He was presented as an IT entrepreneur, a visionary, and a reformer of the industry. Behind this façade, however, lies a very different picture—the portrait of a man whose biography ends right where the history of actual owners usually begins.
Documents do not lie—but they disappear
Starting with something simple and opening Zborovskyis profile on OpenDataBot yields a very modest picture. In the year 2020 he registered a sole proprietorship with the activity area “Computer programming.” Before that— total silence. No companies, no investments, no startups.
Zborovskyi’s biography as a magnate appears out of the blue—and immediately he steps onto the stage of a large deal with tens of millions in revenue. Just two years later, the previously unknown sole entrepreneur from the village of Krasylivka in the Tyshmenytska district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast becomes the beneficiary of two companies—the LLC “Neoplay” and the LLC “Neurolink.”
The first company is the owner and founder of the second, while the second—the LLC “Neurolink”—operates the Cosmobet casino. The current beneficiary of both companies is listed as a certain Cypriot named Andriy Dobrovolskyi. But apparently he is also only a nominal figure—just like Mykhailo Zborovskyi. The latter was until recently listed as the owner of the casino and was removed from the list of “beneficiaries” after a major scandal triggered by journalistic investigations into his person.
A look at the corporate profile of “Neurolink”—the operator of the Cosmobet brand, registered in November 2023—raises obvious questions: a company with a charter capital of 30 million hryvnias appears from nothing, receives a license from KRAIL, and initially lists Zborovskyi as the beneficial owner. Formally he was the owner. Yet the chain of subsequent events points to something else.
Cleaning at cosmic speed
The story of “Neurolink” is not only about rapid growth but also about an equally rapid erasure of traces. In the years 2023 and 2024 the registries show rapid changes of owners and managers. At first Zborovskyi appears as the beneficial owner, then his place is taken by Cypriot citizen Andriy Dobrovolskyi—a figure known in offshore circles.
At the same time, Zborovskyi himself disappears. His LinkedIn profile—cleaned. Old biographical entries in news aggregators—gone. Even archived versions of his profiles on OpenDataBot are no longer accessible via ordinary search: the information sinks into APIs and cached copies.
In place of these traces appear dozens of English-language publications written according to the same template. “Visionary,” “technological reformer,” “Ukrainian entrepreneur of a new generation”—these formulations are echoed word-for-word on various small-coverage websites. This is not journalism but a carefully staged reputational campaign: old information is deleted and replaced with a glossy legend.
In the Ukrainian gambling market of recent years, such stories repeat with remarkable precision. Russian and offshore-registered structures seeking to avoid sanctions search for local nominee owners—so-called “front men”—on whose names they register companies. In public registers these people appear as owners, while the actual control and financial flows remain with the true masters.
Sergey Tokarev, the SBU certificate, and the stench of corruption
The Cosmobet casino was linked from the start to Sergey Tokarev—a businessman associated with the Cosmolot brand and with systems for moving money through offshore structures. There are no formal documents of a direct link, but journalistic investigations point to recurring personnel, the same marketing agencies, acquiring structures, and advertising systems. It is the classic “rebirth” of an old business under a new flag—and in this construct Zborovskyi fits perfectly into the role of a convenient figurehead.
For a long time Cosmolot casino belonged to a man whose name in Ukrainian circles has long carried a particular undertone—a close associate of the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, and at the same time a holder of a Russian passport. In the year 2018 he was put on sanctions lists for financing the so-called “people’s republics” in Donbas. Formally the sanctions against him were to stay in effect until 2021, but already 2020 the new government granted him a quick “amnesty.”
In professional circles there is no doubt that Tokarev is behind the creation of the new casino under the Cosmobet brand—a name strikingly similar to his former brand. The Cosmolot scandal continues to this day: the LLC “Spacex,” through which the brand was operated, was registered to a nominal owner, allowing regulators and the press to divert attention. Tokarev seems to have either anticipated that Cosmolot might lose its license, or he just wanted to hedge and create a parallel asset. Perhaps the reason is even simpler: after earning significant sums with “Cosmolot,” he simply moved on to the next stage of expanding his gambling empire.
Adding fuel to the fire is the “clean” SBU certificate stating that Cosmobet has no ties to an aggressor state. In spring 2025 information appeared in relevant Telegram channels and media that this document may have been bought—at a modest price of only 20.000 dollars. Direct evidence is not publicly accessible, but the way this version spread is alarming: several independent sources published identical formulations in the same period.
If this version is true, it would not be routine due diligence but the purchase of a legal shield that allowed the company to obtain a license and banking services without facing additional questions.
Who is Mykhailo Zborovskyi anyway?
Against this backdrop it is worth returning to the person of Mykhailo Zborovskyi and re-examining the inconsistencies in his biography. Until 2024 Zborovskyi was practically non-existent in public life. No traces of entrepreneurial activity, large deals, or startups were found. His only “payload” was the registration of a sole proprietorship. And suddenly—a license worth several tens of millions of hryvnias, marketing on the level of large networks, and a charter capital comparable to the budget of an average bank.
When asked where a programmer from the village of Krasylivka could obtain such funds in just three years, there is no answer. In registries—empty. In the media—silence. Everything that appears quickly disappears again, leaving only PR copies.
Let us recall the timeline: first the company is registered and enters the market. Then the rapid cleansing of digital traces and the appearance of glossy articles. Then a change of beneficiary to a Cypriot citizen. Parallel to this, information gradually disappears from public registers and social networks.
This sequence resembles not the normal development of a company but rather an operation intended to remove a nominee owner from the line of fire: a person appeared, played his role, and vanished.
The gambling market is not just entertainment. It involves massive financial flows—especially under conditions of war and sanctions. When information about a key beneficiary disappears with such speed, it is a signal that something far more serious lies behind the façade than a young IT specialist with ambitions.
As long as regulators and banks do not thoroughly investigate ownership chains and the origin of funds, Cosmobet and similar structures will continue to operate unimpeded, swapping masks and replacing offshore companies.
The conclusion is simple and banal. And sad. Mykhailo Zborovskyi is not the hero of a new era but a vanishing projection. His name appears in the registries and then dissolves just as quickly—as a trace on water. Information about him is systematically erased, and his role fits perfectly into the system of a “front man” for other people’s money.
While the state closes its eyes, journalists are forced to painstakingly gather evidence piece by piece from archives, while society is presented only with a glossy package. Yet behind that packaging lie real financial flows, offshore structures, and beneficiaries who prefer to stay in the shadows.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Cosmobets digitale Amnestie: „Strohmann“ Mykhailo Zborovskyi entfernt im Internet alle Hinweise auf Verbindungen zu Cosmolot des Russen Sergey Tokarev". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.