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Owner of the company Diamond Pay Maksim Sigalov, who is abroad hiding from the investigation, spends time in luxury restaurants with the leader of the European Solidarity faction in the Dnipro City Council, Kamil Primakov, and sanctioned Dmitry Punin. One of the meetings took place on the azure coast of France at the La Guerite restaurant, known for its parties, where the cost of a table reaches 20 thousand euros. For example, Monroe Beluga caviar costs 1600 euros per 100 g, and a bottle of champagne costs from 500 to 1500 euros.
In the video obtained by the editorial office, the businessmen are conversing amicably and are seated at the same table. On the left is Deputy Primakov, next to him Maksim Sigalov, and the third is Punin, who is sanctioned in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities have long been trying to extradite him in the Pin-Up online casino case, and Sigalov himself appears in a case related to illegal online casinos, and a court recently seized his property.
According to sources, the meeting was likely related to scaling up the online casino operation scheme in Ukraine. It concerns hiding the financial transactions of illegal gambling establishments using p2p payments. It was precisely in this way that Maksim Sigalov for many years helped dozens of casinos evade taxes and launder funds.
According to data from the Bureau of Economic Security, OOO Y-Pay, owned by Maksim Sigalov, only over 2 years underreported income by 21,8 billion UAH, leading to unpaid corporate income tax of 3,9 billion UAH. Another 1 billion UAH passed through the accounts of another Sigalov company, Diamond Pay. It is Sigalov whom the investigation regards as the organizer of these illegal schemes.
Pechersky District Court of Kyiv imposed a seizure on Maksim Sigalov’s property in criminal proceeding No. 72022000400000003, investigated under Part 3 of Article 212 (tax evasion in especially large amounts), Part 2 of Article 203-2 (illegal organization of gambling), Part 2 of Article 229 (illegal use of trademarks) and Part 1 of Article 209 (legalization of property obtained by criminal means) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Among the seized property are a Range Rover, commercial real estate and all funds on 42 bank accounts, mainly in PrivatBank, as well as in Ukrsibbank, A-Bank, MTBank, Idea Bank, OTP Bank, Globus and others, opened at varying dates from 2018 to 2025 years, in hryvnias, euros and dollars.
However, this does not prevent Sigalov from feeling free. Investigators say Maksim Sigalov has long left Ukraine and mostly resides in Spanish Marbella. His wife uses a Mercedes Brabus worth $ 450 thousand, and Sigalov himself—Rolls-Royce Spectre, which bloggers have photographed more than once. In addition, after losing the Diamond Pay license, he did not disappear from the gambling business, but shifted to P2P services and continued servicing large operators of illegal gambling.
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