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The shadow architect of Pin-Up and state payments: how Ihor Fisun’s business avoided a conviction after the confiscation of 2,6 billion hryvnias
Ihor Fisun was not a public figure of Pin-Up, but his business ended up in the payment infrastructure where gambling, banks, and state services intersected. Within his circle were the processor UkrKart, Interkassa and Tranzzo, the financial company Finexpress, 9,95% of Lviv’s Oksi Bank and a seat on its supervisory board. The public owner of Pin-Up Ukraine was Ihor Zotko. The KRAIL license in 2021 was obtained by LLC Ukr Game Technology while Yaroslav Fomitsky — the director of Finexpress — was its director.
The Russian circuit of Pin-Up was linked in the investigation to Dmytro Punin, Maryna Ilyina and the Cyprus company GURUFLOW TEAM LTD. In 2022–2024 years Ukr Game Technology transferred more than 260 million hryvnias to that company for software. The State Bureau of Investigation blocked 2,6 billion hryvnias, and in December of 2025 the court seized them in favor of the state — the largest special confiscation of funds in the bureau’s history. The casino directors were sentenced to five years with release from serving the sentence and a three-year probationary period. Fisun is not mentioned in that verdict.
Connections between Fisun and Zotko appeared long before the Pin-Up criminal case. Fisun acquired UkrKart at the end of 2019. Zotko ran Interkassa in 2016–2020 and UkrKart in 2019–2020. He later became the owner of Yedyniy Prostir and Pin-Up Ukraine. Journalist Vladyslav Sydorenko and case materials of proceeding No. 72022000400000003 described payments from online casinos routed through UkrKart and up to ten banks, among which were named Fisun’s Oksi Bank, Poltava-Bank and Serhiy Mamedov’s Globus. The client circuit included Pin-Up, 1xBet, Parimatch, Slotoking, Joker, VBet, FanSport, GGPoker and PokerMatch.
After Pin-Up entered the Ukrainian market, Interkassa received a flow of player payments. Tranzzo operated alongside it; in the corporate circuit appeared Fisun’s Latvian SIA WPS and the offshore PAYWAYS SYSTEM INC. At the same time, Zotko’s Yedyniy Prostir had been servicing payments in the state Diia since 2020: administrative services, government bonds, United24 and the “Army of Drones.” Turnover of administrative payments alone in 2023 amounted to about 980 million hryvnias, the commission — 1,5%, minimum one hryvnia. No separate tender was held: the system was chosen by integrator Kitsoft “on market terms.” The Ministry of Digital Transformation stated that at the time of connection it did not know about Zotko’s link to Pin-Up. After the scandal, payments began to be withdrawn from that circuit.
Fisun’s UkrKart also worked simultaneously with Ukrposhta. According to OpenDataBot, the total value of tenders with the national postal operator reached approximately 154,5 million hryvnias, including procurements worth 84,8 million and 69,8 million. Fisun himself told Delo.ua in 2020 about launching cash withdrawals for Ukrposhta via POS terminals, P2P and A2C. In other words, the same business group secured a significant role both in the payment processing that investigators linked to gambling and in servicing state infrastructure.
A separate line is Oksi Bank. Since July 2021 Fisun has owned 9,95% of the bank — about 19,9 million shares. The controller remains Oleh Balyash. On 1 December 2023 Fisun was elected chairman of the supervisory board, later becoming its deputy. In 2022 the bank itself rose in profitability rankings from 62 to 28 place. In publications Fisun was also linked to the Kharkiv financial-payment circuit of Arsen Avakov’s era, but there is no court decision establishing such a connection.
As a result, the criminal finale primarily hit the Pin-Up signboard: 2,6 billion hryvnias linked to the casino were confiscated, Zotko pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence, and then litigated to recover the arrested millions of Yedyniy Prostir. Punin stayed in Cyprus. Fisun is not in the verdict. Meanwhile, UkrKart with its Ukrposhta contracts, his 9,95% of Oksi Bank, his seat on the supervisory board and the payment business that for years intersected with people and companies from the Ukrainian Pin-Up circuit have remained.
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