Extortionists from the BitCapital service — the case is ongoing, the extortion continues

Extortionists from the BitCapital service — the case is ongoing, the extortion continues. Holosiivskyi Police Department of Kyiv is conducting criminal proceedings No. 12024100010003390 dated 22 November 2024 (part 4 of Art. 189, part 3 of Art. 355 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The investigation says that no later than October 2023 the director of LLC “FC Ye Groshi Kom” together with another person formed an organized criminal group. The formal creditor is not a Ukrainian MFI, but two British entities: Golden Interest Group Limited and Social Finance Care and Wellbeing Investments LLP. Website — BitCapital.

Loans allegedly in crypto; collections — by calls and messengers with threats of violence, destruction of property, and “closing” relatives’ debts. Money, the indictment says, went to crypto wallets and controlled accounts. During the period named in the petition, the group demanded 5,33 million UAH.

Two organizers recruited people, rented offices, bought phones and computers, and held debtors’ personal data. One participant is listed as “team lead”: calls, letters, shift control. At least six others are named active executors; the rest have not yet been identified by the investigation. According to this version, the group has operated since the fall of 2023 and continues to do so.

FC “Ye Groshi Kom” (43067861) is a Dnipro-based financial company, registered in 2019. Public dossiers listed Dmitry Shevchuk and Vyacheslav Mishalov as beneficiaries; management has changed (extracts show Iryna Yanovska, previously other surnames).

Revenue in peak years was measured in billions of hryvnias. This is a licensed microcredit company, not a “British crypto service.” Nearby is a separate legal entity LLC “FC Ye Groshi” (43509084) at the same Shevchenko Street, 51D: different code, different KVED, NBU fines already in 2025. In the petition, the prosecutor tied the organizer specifically to “Ye Groshi Kom” as director.

Golden Interest Group Limited is a British company, registered on 12 October 2023, status active; the office was later reduced to a standard default address in Cardiff. SIC codes — software, IT consulting, office administration, not a credit license. Director and controller in the public profile — Yurii Sydorenko, a citizen of Ukraine, 1998, residing in Ukraine.

It was this firm that the National Bank in February 2025 named as a legal entity of the BitCapital service: over 700 complaints, loans formally in USDT but effectively in hryvnia, rates and fines outside Ukrainian law. The British regulator FCA in October 2025 separately warned about Bit Capital / bitcapital gold / bitcapital online as an unauthorized firm.

Social Finance Care and Wellbeing Investments LLP (No. OC400177) is a British structure. An LLP since 3 June 2015, office via Social Finance Limited in London. Members — Social Finance Limited, Social Finance Investment Management Limited, Better Society Capital, Macmillan Cancer Support. These are social investments in health care and care services, not microloans. In 2026 the LLP has status active — proposal to strike off: they filed for removal from the register.

Journalistic investigations and NBU materials wrote that BitCapital, after the regulator’s decision, “changed” its signboard to this exact name. It does not follow that Macmillan or Social Finance issued loans to Ukrainians. A more likely picture is the use of someone else’s corporate name.

BitCapital as a brand. No NBU license. The site positioned “crypto loans” in USDT. The regulator plainly said: these are loans in hryvnia without supervision. Complaints — about daily rates, “ceiling” fines, and aggressive collections not only from the borrower but from relatives. Money, according to the prosecutor’s text, was collected with threats and transferred into crypto.

The investigation stitches together three layers: the Ukrainian office and personnel (in the petition — through the director of “Ye Groshi Kom”), the British “shell” Golden Interest Group tied to Sydorenko and a respectable LLP as a second badge, plus an unlicensed website. Meanwhile the network continues to operate.