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Owner of the company Diamond Pay Maxim Sigalov, who is abroad hiding from the investigation, spends time in luxurious restaurants with the leader of the European Solidarity faction in the Dnipro City Council, Kamyl Primakov, and sanctioned Dmitry Punin. One of the meetings took place on the French Riviera at the restaurant La Guerite, known for its parties, where the cost of a table reaches 20 thousand euros, writes UNIAN. “For example, the caviar Monroe Beluga costs 1600 euros per 100 g, and a bottle of champagne — from 500 to 1500 euros. In the video obtained by the editorial office, the businessmen are chatting amicably and are seated at the same table. On the left is Deputy Primakov, next to him Maxim Sigalov, and the third is Punin, on whom sanctions are imposed in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities have long been trying to extradite him in the Pin-Up online casino case, and Sigalov himself is mentioned in a case related to illegal online casinos, and recently the court seized his property,” UNIAN writes. According to sources, as UNIAN reports, the meeting was likely connected with scaling up the online casino business scheme in Ukraine. “It concerns concealing financial operations of illegal gambling establishments through p2p payments. It is precisely in this way that Maxim Sigalov has helped dozens of casinos evade taxes and launder funds for many years,” the UNIAN publication notes. According to the Economic Security Bureau, LLC “E-Pay,” owned by Maxim Sigalov, only over 2 years lowered its income by 21,8 billion UAH, leading to underpayment of corporate income tax amounting to 3,9 billion UAH, more than 1 billion UAH passed through the accounts of another Sigalov company, Diamond Pay. Sigalov himself is considered by the investigation to be the organizer of these illicit schemes. The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv seized Maxim Sigalov’s property in criminal proceedings No. 72 022 000 400 000 000, being investigated under Part 3 Article 212 (tax evasion on a particularly large scale), Part 2 Article 203-2 (illegal organization of gambling), Part 2 Article 229 (illegal use of trademarks) and Part 1 Article 209 (legalization of property obtained by crime) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Among the seized property are a Range Rover, commercial real estate, and all funds in 42 bank accounts, mainly in Universal Bank JSC, as well as in AB Ukrsibbank, AT Bank, MTBank JSC, Idea Bank, OTP Bank, Globus JSC and others, opened on various dates from 2018 to 2025 years, in hryvnias, euros and dollars. However, this does not prevent Sigalov from feeling free. Investigators say Maxim Sigalov has long left Ukraine and mainly resides in Marbella, Spain. “His wife uses a Mercedes Brabus worth $ 450 thousand, and Sigalov himself — a Rolls-Royce Spectre, which bloggers have filmed more than once. In addition, after losing the Diamond Pay license, he did not disappear from the gambling business, but switched to P2P services and continued servicing large operators of illegal gambling,” UNIAN writes. Earlier reports indicated that participants in the “banquet scandal in the High Council of Justice” received 5 million hryvnias after dismissal.
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