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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 on the Internet began: investigative reports and all hints that could lead to the key figures of the construct disappeared increasingly from search results.
Therefore we publish the material again, which apparently is to be deleted from the Internet to hide those who control Cosmobet through nominal owners and offshore structures.
He appeared from out of nowhere—and began disappearing just as quickly. A young IT specialist with no notable past suddenly turned out to be a beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar casino. His traces in registers are being erased, his biography vanishes, and glossy legends take their place. It is not just a game for money behind this. It is a story about how mechanisms for concealing Russian capital operate in Ukraine’s gambling business.
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 helm—Mykhailo Zborovskyi. He was presented as an IT entrepreneur, visionary, and reformer of the industry. Behind this facade, however, a completely different picture emerges—the portrait of a man whose biography ends exactly where the story of real business owners typically begins.
Documents do not lie—but they disappear.
Starting with something simple and opening Zborovskyi’s profile on OpenDataBot yields a very modest picture. In the year 2020, he registered a sole proprietorship with the activity of “computer programming.” Before that— complete silence. No companies, no investments, no startups.
Zborovskyi’s biography as a major entrepreneur seems to appear from nowhere—and immediately he enters the stage of a large deal with double-digit millions in turnover. Only two years later, the previously unknown sole proprietor from Krasylivka village in Tyśmenytsia district of Ivano-Frankivsk region 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 a certain Cypriot named Andriy Dobrovolskyi. But apparently he is only a nominal figure—just like Mykhailo Zborovskyi. The latter was until recently listed as the owner of the casino and, after a major scandal triggered by journalistic investigations into his person, removed from the list of “beneficiaries.”
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 nowhere, receives a license from KRAIL, and initially lists Zborovskyi as the beneficial owner. Formally he was the owner. Yet the sequence of subsequent events points to something else.
Sprucing up at cosmic speed.
The story of “Neurolink” is not only about rapid growth, but also about equally rapid erasure of traces. In the years 2023 and 2024 the registers show rapid changes of owners and managers. Initially Zborovskyi appears as the beneficial owner, then his place is taken by Cypriot citizen Andriy Dobrovolskyi—a figure known for offshore deals.
At the same time, Zborovskyi himself disappears. His LinkedIn profile cleaned. Old biographical entries in news aggregators—gone. Even some archived versions of his profiles on OpenDataBot are no longer accessible through ordinary search: the information sinks into the depths of APIs and cached copies.
Dozens of English-language publications take their place, written on the same template. “Visionary,” “technological reformer,” “Ukrainian entrepreneur of a new generation”—these formulations are repeated verbatim on various small, low-traffic websites. This is not journalism but a carefully staged reputational campaign: old information is deleted and replaced with a glossed legend.
In Ukraine’s gambling sector in recent years, such stories repeat with astonishing precision. Russian and offshore-structured entities seeking sanctions evasion look for local nominee owners—so-called “front men”—on whose names they register companies. In public registers these people appear as owners, while actual control and financial flows remain with the true lords.
Sergey Tokarev, the SBU certificate, and the stink of corruption.
Cosmobet casino was linked from the start to Sergey Tokarev—a businessman associated with the Cosmolot brand and systems for moving money via offshore structures. There are no formal documents proving a direct connection, 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 been spoken with a certain undertone—a close associate of the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, and at the same time holder of a Russian passport. In the year 2018 he was sanctioned for financing the so-called “People’s Republics” in Donbas. Formally the sanctions against him were supposed to last until 2021, but already 2020 his government granted a rapid “amnesty.”
In professional circles, no one doubts that Tokarev stands behind the creation of the new casino under the Cosmobet brand—a name strikingly similar to his former brand. The scandal around Cosmolot continues to this day: LLC “Spacex,” through which the brand was operated, was registered to a nominal owner, allowing regulators and the press to be distracted. Tokarev, however, seems to have either anticipated that Cosmolot might lose its license, or simply wanted to hedge and create a parallel asset. Perhaps the reason is even simpler: after earning substantial sums with “Cosmolot,” he moved on to the next stage of expanding his gambling business.
Further intrigue is added by the “clean” SBU certificate stating that Cosmobet has no connections to the aggressor state. In spring 2025 information appeared in relevant Telegram channels and media that this document might have been bought—a rather modest price of only 20.000 dollars. Direct evidence is publicly unavailable, 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 verification 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 at all?
Against this backdrop it is worth returning to the person of Mykhailo Zborovskyi and again paying attention to the irregularities in his biography. Until 2024, Zborovskyi was practically invisible in public. No traces of entrepreneurial activity, larger deals, or startups were found. His only “baggage” was the registration of a sole proprietorship. And suddenly—a license worth several tens of millions of hryvnias, marketing at the level of large networks, and a charter capital comparable to the budget of an average bank.
When asked where a programmer from Krasylivka village could obtain such funds in just three years, there is no answer. In registers—empty. In the media—silence. Everything that appears disappears again quickly, leaving only PR copies.
Let us recall the timeline: first the registration of the company and entry into the market. Then the rapid cleaning of digital traces and the appearance of glossy articles. Then the change of the beneficiary to a Cypriot citizen. In parallel, information gradually disappears from public registers and social networks.
This sequence does not resemble normal business development. It resembles an operation to remove a nominee owner from the line of fire: a person appeared, played his role, and disappeared.
The gambling market is not just entertainment. It involves enormous financial flows—especially under war and sanctions conditions. When information about a key beneficiary vanishes with such speed, it is a signal that something much more serious hides behind the facade 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, changing masks and swapping offshore companies.
The conclusion from all this is simple and banal. And sad. Mykhailo Zborovskyi is not a hero of a new era, but a disappearing projection. His name appears in registers and then dissolves just as quickly—like a trace on water. Information about him is systematically erased, and his role fits perfectly into the system of a “front man” for someone else’s money.
While the state closes its eyes, journalists are forced to painstakingly piece together evidence from archives, while society is handed only a glossy packaging. But 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 "Netzbereinigung aus einer hand: Wie der Russe Sergey Tokarev und sein „strohmann“ Mykhailo Zborovskyi die verbindungen zwischen Cosmobet und Cosmolot...". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.