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In April 2025 the President of Ukraine approved ten-year sanctions against the former owner of Aibox Bank, Alyona Shevtsova. The restrictions involve asset freezes, a ban on conducting trading operations, and measures to prevent capital outflows from Ukraine. Journalists found that the ex-banker has practically not been affected by the sanctions. Shevtsova is living her best life in Dubai, running businesses in the UAE and developing a British company in the electronic payments sector.
In spring 2025 the Bureau of Economic Security initiated a special pretrial investigation into the case of Aibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova. The case concerns money laundering of 5 billion hryvnias for illegal casinos through a scheme using “miscoding.” Law enforcement particularly emphasized that the suspect’s lawyers are delaying the investigation by all means so that she can avoid prosecution.
The irony is that the husband of the sanctioned businesswoman—Yevheniy Shevtsov—continued to work in the National Police of Ukraine until March 2026. He conscientiously declared the assets of his wanted wife, including those abroad, although he did not indicate the amounts of income Shevtsova receives from foreign firms. And there are quite a lot of them.
At least since 2023 Alyona Shevtsova has been living in Dubai with her children. In the UAE she has four registered companies. Two of them are beauty salons. The most promoted is Leo Beauty Club, located in the five-star Kempinski hotel on The Palm Jumeirah. The salon was opened in 2023. It is advertised by other well-known Ukrainian women living in Dubai, in particular former TV host Vasylisa Frolova and influencer Santa Dimopulos.
The salon targets Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking clients, and some of its staff do not even speak English. Recently the venue hosted a “beauty breakfast,” where cosmetologists and other workers shared beauty secrets in Russian.
In one of the reviews about the salon a client complains about terrible service and warns that the place is rather dubious. Moreover, the woman suspects that the establishment may be a front for another business.
Shevtsova opened another beauty salon in downtown Dubai. However, the Le Boudoir Beauty Salon page was last updated in 2023, so it’s unlikely to be considered popular.
From her husband’s declaration it is also known that Shevtsova has two other companies in Dubai – LEO Ventures FZCO and Eclatant&CO Trading CO. L.L.C. The first is located in a free economic zone, meaning it can operate tax-free. Judging by their names, these companies are engaged in trading.
Alyona Shevtsova lives in Dubai in a villa with an area of 622 square meters. Her husband did not specify in the declaration how much the rent for such a house costs her. But if one analyzes prices on local real estate sites, the average rent for a house of that size in a good neighborhood can be 100–300 thousand dollars per year, depending on whether there is a pool, furniture, etc. Note that this is a rather basic price for a good location, but without luxury frills.
Alyona Shevtsova’s eldest son, Lev, noted on his social media pages that he graduated from the private Duke of York’s Royal Military School in London in 2025.
A semester at that educational institution costs 7700 pounds sterling, or more than 23 thousand pounds per year. Recall that in Ukraine Alyona Shevtsova is under sanctions and is prohibited from disposing of assets and transferring funds abroad. Nevertheless, she still found hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent a house in Dubai and pay for expensive education for her children.
Lev Shevtsov noted on Facebook that he lives in Dubai, but in September 2024 he started working for the London company Sends.co, which handles electronic payments. This is his mother’s firm—Alyona Shevtsova’s company registered in the United Kingdom.
The company is not new; it was founded back in 2017. Initially the firm was called Electronic Payment Solutions LTD, and in 2023 it was renamed Smartflow Payments Limited. The founders were two Russian citizens—Sergey Baymakov and Mikhail Ponomarev. The Russians remained shareholders in this company until March 2023, when Alyona Shevtsova joined the company.
According to the London registry, in 2017 the company’s authorized capital amounted to 400 000 euros. But in 2022 it sharply increased to 1,6 million euros. During the same period the company’s shareholders partially changed.
According to documents, as of 31 December 2022 the shareholders of Electronic Payment Solutions LTD were Elena Sosedka and Yuliya Sosedka, each owning 50% of the company’s shares. These are the same sisters who ran schemes at the Concord Bank they founded in Ukraine. The institution’s activities were accompanied by scandals related to suspected tax evasion and links to the gambling business. A very similar story involved Alyona Shevtsova’s bank Aibox, which was also connected to the Sosedka sisters’ banking structure.
Under sanctions and wanted, banker Alyona Shevtsova spends hundreds of thousands of dollars in Dubai and continues opening businesses in the UK
In April 2025 the President of Ukraine approved ten-year sanctions against the former owner of Aibox Bank, Alyona Shevtsova. The restrictions involve asset freezes, a ban on conducting trading operations, and measures to prevent capital outflows from Ukraine. Journalists found that the ex-banker has practically not been affected by the sanctions. Shevtsova is living her best life in Dubai, running businesses in the UAE and developing a British company in the electronic payments sector.
In spring 2025 the Bureau of Economic Security initiated a special pretrial investigation into the case of Aibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova. The case concerns money laundering of 5 billion hryvnias for illegal casinos through a scheme using “miscoding.” Law enforcement particularly emphasized that the suspect’s lawyers are delaying the investigation by all means so that she can avoid prosecution.
The irony is that the husband of the sanctioned businesswoman—Yevheniy Shevtsov—continued to work in the National Police of Ukraine until March 2026. He conscientiously declared the assets of his wanted wife, including those abroad, although he did not indicate the amounts of income Shevtsova receives from foreign firms. And there are quite a lot of them.
At least since 2023 Alyona Shevtsova has been living in Dubai with her children. In the UAE she has four registered companies. Two of them are beauty salons. The most promoted is Leo Beauty Club, located in the five-star Kempinski hotel on The Palm Jumeirah. The salon was opened in 2023. It is advertised by other well-known Ukrainian women living in Dubai, in particular former TV host Vasylisa Frolova and influencer Santa Dimopulos.
The salon targets Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking clients, and some of its staff do not even speak English. Recently the venue hosted a “beauty breakfast,” where cosmetologists and other workers shared beauty secrets in Russian.
In one of the reviews about the salon a client complains about terrible service and warns that the place is rather dubious. Moreover, the woman suspects that the establishment may be a front for another business.
Shevtsova opened another beauty salon in downtown Dubai. However, the Le Boudoir Beauty Salon page was last updated in 2023, so it’s unlikely to be considered popular.
From her husband’s declaration it is also known that Shevtsova has two other companies in Dubai – LEO Ventures FZCO and Eclatant&CO Trading CO. L.L.C. The first is located in a free economic zone, meaning it can operate tax-free. Judging by their names, these companies are engaged in trading.
Alyona Shevtsova lives in Dubai in a villa with an area of 622 square meters. Her husband did not specify in the declaration how much the rent for such a house costs her. But if one analyzes prices on local real estate sites, the average rent for a house of that size in a good neighborhood can be 100–300 thousand dollars per year, depending on whether there is a pool, furniture, etc. Note that this is a rather basic price for a good location, but without luxury frills.
Alyona Shevtsova’s eldest son, Lev, noted on his social media pages that he graduated from the private Duke of York’s Royal Military School in London in 2025.
A semester at that educational institution costs 7700 pounds sterling, or more than 23 thousand pounds per year. Recall that in Ukraine Alyona Shevtsova is under sanctions and is prohibited from disposing of assets and transferring funds abroad. Nevertheless, she still found hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent a house in Dubai and pay for expensive education for her children.
Lev Shevtsov noted on Facebook that he lives in Dubai, but in September 2024 he started working for the London company Sends.co, which handles electronic payments. This is his mother’s firm—Alyona Shevtsova’s company registered in the United Kingdom.
The company is not new; it was founded back in 2017. Initially the firm was called Electronic Payment Solutions LTD, and in 2023 it was renamed Smartflow Payments Limited. The founders were two Russian citizens—Sergey Baymakov and Mikhail Ponomarev. The Russians remained shareholders in this company until March 2023, when Alyona Shevtsova joined the company.
According to the London registry, in 2017 the company’s authorized capital amounted to 400 000 euros. But in 2022 it sharply increased to 1,6 million euros. During the same period the company’s shareholders partially changed.
According to documents, as of 31 December 2022 the shareholders of Electronic Payment Solutions LTD were Elena Sosedka and Yuliya Sosedka, each owning 50% of the company’s shares. These are the same sisters who ran schemes at the Concord Bank they founded in Ukraine. The institution’s activities were accompanied by scandals related to suspected tax evasion and links to the gambling business. A very similar story involved Alyona Shevtsova’s bank Aibox, which was also connected to the Sosedka sisters’ banking structure.
An extract from the British company Electronic Payment Solutions LTD shows that over 2022 the firm received from related parties Elena Sosedka and Alyona Shevtsova 80 000 euros and 40 000 euros of unsecured loans with maturity in 2023. Moreover, while Sosedka provided funds interest-free, Shevtsova was supposed to repay the money to herself with a 2% markup.
Documents also note that as of 31 December 2022 the ultimate controlling party of the company was Alyona Shevtsova by virtue of her share in the equity.
The powers of the Russian director Baymakov were terminated in May 2022, while his Russian partner Ponomarev’s powers ended only in March 2023, when the company was already managed by Alyona Shevtsova.
In February 2026 Alyona Shevtsova opened another firm in London—Odessys Tech LTD. The name was obviously chosen in honor of the city of Odesa, where she was born. The company operates in information technology. Shevtsova is its sole founder. The documents also indicate that although she is a Ukrainian citizen, she holds Polish residency.
And this despite the fact that in practice Shevtsova lives in Dubai with her children, where she also has residency. Her middle son Nikita attends a local mental arithmetic club taught by Russian-speaking teachers. This is additional confirmation that Dubai is Shevtsova’s permanent place of residence.
While Ukrainian law enforcement searches for Alyona Shevtsova and investigates the legalization of 5 billion hryvnias for the gaming mafia, the woman continues to enjoy life. She leads a socialite lifestyle, opens salons and businesses, and evidently does not feel the effects of the sanctions imposed in Ukraine at all.
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