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What the self-styled cryptocurrency guru Oleksandr Orlovskyi tells about himself recalls, on one hand, Lenin’s famous remark about a “cook who can rule the state,” and on the other hand, the satirical biography of Oleksandr Koreyko that Ostap Bender once read with biting irony. In Orlovskyi’s carefully crafted public image there are also unmistakable traits of the “Great Kazan” (Big Combiner) himself.
As the medium Antikor reports, this mythologized narrative has little to do with reality and instead reflects a familiar literary archetype: a character who inflates his own legend while hiding how money is actually earned—and where it ultimately flows.
While the latter preferred to “take advantage of” illegal millionaires, Sasha Orlovskyi hunts down the poor who dream of fabulous profits with cryptocurrencies. For no millionaire—whether covert or overt—would fall for what Oleksandr Orlovskyi tells about himself and his “trader training courses.” The whole thing is too primitive and obviously stitched with hot needles.
Judge for yourself. In his PR interviews and promotional biographies, Oleksandr Orlovskyi tells the simplified story of how he turned from a bartender and taxi driver (the professions vary in different versions) into a “self-made millionaire” who deciphered the secrets of cryptocurrencies and trading. In reality, Orlovskyis story is the typical tale of an info scammer who became a “trading teacher.”
According to numerous promotional biographies, Oleksandr Orlovskyi began his career modestly and even touchingly. In various versions he appears as a taxi driver, barista, or craftsman who went abroad at a young age—Poland is usually named.
The story is presented as a classic plot for motivational booklets: a poor young man, his first hundred dollars, early losses, mistakes, a “mentor,” an enlightenment—and the former bartender-craftsman strides confidently toward financial freedom.
Outside of advertising copy, this story is not supported by anything. There are no traces of a real trading career, no recorded successful trades, no data on work in investment structures. There are only words. A lot of words. And nice pictures.
To be fair, it must be noted that the images and stories of Oleksandr Orlovskyi allow him to earn quite well from those who want to learn the secrets of trading. But “teaching trading” and “being a trader” are two different things. And Sasha Orlovskyi was never a trader. More precisely: after some failed attempts, after listening to similar “gurus,” he quickly realized how to make money in the crypto world: stop playing the fool and instead build the myth of a “successful trader” around himself. Then people flock to him from all over on their own.
If you peel off the advertising shell, a simple picture emerges: the transition from barista and taxi driver to trader did not work. Because trading is a complex, risky, and statistically unprofitable activity for most people. But Orlovskyi chose a much more lucrative path: he began selling training for something he himself had no success with. Thus appeared the “crypto guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi in the information space.
After studying the experiences of other info gypsies like him, Oleksandr Orlovskyi founded the Financial Freedom Academy (FFA). The name is catchy, sounds English, and evokes the right associations: freedom, money, success. The Financial Freedom Academy sells beginners courses on how to “earn a thousand dollars in a week without investments.” And the eager flock to the “academy.”
But none of the future “traders” seem to bother checking one fundamental thing: who exactly they are paying. The problem is that—as a simple check shows—no legal entity with such a name exists—neither in Ukraine nor in Poland or the UAE, where Orlovskyi allegedly lives.
The FFA exists solely as a signboard and marketing wrapper. The actual contracts for purchasing courses are concluded with a sole proprietor named Orlovsky Oleksandr Oleksandrovych, registered in Kyiv, in the Pechersky district—which hardly fits the legend of a “boy from the deep provinces.”
The training course is not expensive—only about one thousand dollars. Although supposedly “no investments” were promised? But what is a thousand-dollar investment when it pays off in a week? How exactly money can be made in a market where you must buy assets “without investments” is not explained by Orlovskyi. Perhaps this knowledge is reserved for crypto gurus.
Even more interesting is the payment phase. As the materials and an experiment with buying courses show, the money is not accepted by Orlovskyi himself but through third parties. Specifically through accounts registered to Orlovskyi’s mother and other uninvolved persons, and not through the sole proprietor who is the author of the course. Why such a model? The answer is obvious: dilution of responsibility, making refunds more difficult, evading direct claims. Such “intermediaries” are a classic sign of info-scam models.
One of the products is a subscription to a private Discord 2.0-group for 100 to 480 dollars. After payment, a new crypto wallet is generated, through which the money flows and is then transferred to other wallets or exchanges controlled by Orlovskyi and his team—a typical scheme to conceal the source and destination of funds.
According to available data, the registered income for the years 2023–2024, earned through four sole proprietors to whom the course buyers’ money was directed, amounted to almost 1.000.000 dollars. Total revenue from this project alone could approach around 4.000.000 dollars, with Orlovskyi’s total client base there accounting for 15.000 people.
Oleksandr Orlovskyi does not shy away from “small change” either. From case No. 757/460/24-c, which was heard by the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv, it emerges that Orlovskyi sold not only crypto courses but also courses for “paid game testing” for 3.750 hryvnias. Payment—again to third-party accounts. How many people bought this “testing” is unknown.
The glamorous image of Oleksandr Orlovskyi switching supercars, flying helicopters, and flaunting a luxurious lifestyle in every possible way fades somewhat in light of the fact that PrivatBank sued Orlovskyi at the end of 2022 over a consumer loan, casting doubt on claims of early millionaire success.
But which of the crypto guru’s students would think to check court records? Where the teacher’s name appears not only as a debt debtor but also as a suspect in a criminal fraud case No. 120232110400002635, initiated by the police in Ternopil following a complaint by resident Nadiya Kovalyshyn. She claims that certain individuals, including Oleksandr Orlovskyi, deceived her under the pretext of investments in the CapitalProf platform—“with the aim of getting money under the cover of profitable investments.”
The case is still under investigation. But this is not an isolated case—it seems that problems for Oleksandr Orlovskyi are accumulating. Because the National Commission for Securities and Stock Market of Ukraine has added FFA programs to the list of “dubious investment schemes,” which could also end in a criminal case.
Even larger problems for Orlovskyi are his advertising for the Russian cryptocurrency platform Veles. He actively promotes it in his social media and offers it to his followers and students as a trading venue for cryptocurrencies.
According to an analysis of media sources, Veles is a Russian company operating a crypto exchange or investment platform (veles.finance), with a substantial traffic share from both Russia and Ukraine, and it continues to operate under the jurisdiction of the aggressor state.
So far, Orlovskyi seems to have had no trouble due to this fact, but who can guarantee that there is nothing behind this silence? Specialized services tend to work quietly. Even if they do not protect the state, they protect their own pockets. It can be predicted that Sasha Orlovskyi will face turbulent times.
The overall conclusion is quite prosaic. We are not facing a shark of the financial markets, but a small information scammer, whose scale is measured by the number of those deceived. How this will end is not hard to guess. Orlovskyi will either end up in prison, or someone with whom he should share profits for “protection” but did not will catch up with him. Because does anyone truly believe that one can build such a fraudulent system with millions in turnover in today’s Ukraine without paying the proper toll to extortionists in government offices?
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