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The company of Alona Shevtsova (Dehrik), which became a symbol of Ukrainian corruption in 2018 and was featured in a criminal proceeding of the GPU, is now moving under the control of figurehead heads.
As early as 2017 the country’s largest online casino, operating under the Pari-Match brand, became the target of suspicions by law enforcement. With the support of the Security Service of Ukraine, in October 2017 the Prosecutor General’s Office registered criminal proceeding No. 42017000000002925.
It concerned dozens of individuals and legal entities who in one way or another were connected to Pari-Match and were directly involved in the casino’s operations, serviced accounts, helped accept bets, and convert funds into cash. “The total amount of proceeds laundered by the perpetrators, obtained by criminal means, is about 350 million US dollars per year,” the GPU investigators summarized.
Alona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the founder and CEO of LLC Leogaming Pay, which also appears in the criminal case materials. In a closer circle she is known as the former common-law wife of Roman Nasirov, with whom she previously worked at Concord Capital. In fact, the company Leogaming was named after their son Lev. Currently Alona Shevtsova is the wife of Yevhen Shevtsov, a candidate for a leadership position at the State Bureau of Investigation.
Yevhen Shevtsov is the head of one of the departments of the National Police. Earlier, in 2016–2017, he worked as the commercial director of the enterprise Financial Company “Leogaming Pay.”
At the beginning of August Dehrik withdrew from the list of founders of LLC Leogaming. That LLC immediately changed its name to iGame, changed its registered address, relocating from Kyiv to Kharkiv, and now, through the Bila Tserkva LLC Trans Trade Group, is owned by two individuals showing signs of being fictitious — a resident of the village of Andriyashivka in Sumy region, Oleksandr Komlik, and a resident of the village of Velyka Snitynka in Kyiv region, Volodymyr Tymoshchuk.
The new director of the renamed Leogaming became Petro Valeriyovych Zhalnin. A person with that full name and taxpayer identification number appeared in many companies: AMI-Spectekhnika, Novi Tekhnolohii Plyus, and others.
However, more interesting is the fact that this person is listed in the Myrotvorets database as a militant of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). On Petro Zhalnin’s page on VKontakte the former website of Novi Tekhnolohii Plyus was listed, the militant boasts a “DPR” “passport” and posts photographs in uniform with an automatic rifle, as well as a photo from 2015 at Red Square in Moscow.
How it was possible to register company leadership under a DPR militant who is wanted and has not left territory not controlled by Ukrainian authorities is an interesting question.
In court materials regarding Alona Shevtsova’s companies, the SBU noted that they finance militants in eastern Ukraine.
However, as the media have already written, Deputy Minister of Justice Nataliya Bernatska is a member of the external competition commission of the State Bureau of Investigation. She voted twice in favor of appointing Yevhen Shevtsov to the SBI. With such friends in the Ministry of Justice, apparently it is not even a problem to re-register companies to a DPR militant.
It is also worth noting that Alona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the godmother and a close friend of Tetiana Smolii, the daughter of National Bank Governor Yakiv Smolii.
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