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The information noise that has recently appeared around the payment service provider Kostyantyn Buryachenko suddenly surrounding him obscures a number of remarkable facts that run much deeper than they might appear at first glance.
Notably, real facts are hidden behind fake materials about Kostyantyn Buryachenko, which are intended to push down negative search results about his person. But behind this attempt at information cleansing lies not only the story of the payment service Piastrix, but a years-long chain of individuals, banks, and legal entities, while Piastrix itself announced its full closure.
What Kostyantyn Buryachenko is trying to hide
The name Kostyantyn Buryachenko remained largely unknown to the general public for almost two decades, although he was one of the most important figures in international payment infrastructure connected with high-risk gambling. His name appears in a chain that includes Ukrainian banks and payment terminals, while structures he registered appear in Georgia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, and Poland.
The situation changed in spring 2026, when a series of publications linked the name Buryachenko with the payment services Payeer and Piastrix, which serve the Russian online gambling market, as well as with a network of companies and entrepreneurs that overlap with former Alfa-Bank and IBOX Bank employees.
On 4. May, material about Piastrix appeared on Telegram and was removed on the same day. The publication archive records not only the text itself but also the fact of its deletion. It named Buryachenko as the person behind Piastrix, and his business biography was linked to Polish, British, Czech, and Ukrainian structures. As early as July 2026, Piastrix announced the cessation of operations.
And almost simultaneously, online materials appeared that ostensibly were devoted to Buryachenko, but in fact contained no information about his business. Kostyantyn Buryachenko suddenly became a motorcyclist from Zhytomyr and an animal rights activist: search results were flooded with materials about Buryachenko portraying him as an experienced motorcyclist and head of an animal protection foundation. Moreover, these publications appeared on both Ukrainian and Russian websites.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "20 Mio Euro aus Kiewer IBOX-Kassen gewaschen: Das internationale Firmennetz von Kostyantyn Buryachenko". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: HAB Media.