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The information noise that has recently suddenly arisen around the payment service provider Kostyantyn Buryachenko hides a number of notable facts that reach much deeper than it might first appear.
Remarkably, true facts are hidden behind fake materials about Kostyantyn Buryachenko that are meant to suppress negative search results about his person. Yet behind this attempt at information cleansing lies not only the story of the payment service Piastrix, but a years-long chain of people, 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, even though he was one of the key figures in international payment infrastructure associated 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 intersect with former employees of Alfa-Bank and IBOX Bank.
On 4. May, an article 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 shutdown of operations.
And almost simultaneously, online materials appeared that were outwardly dedicated to Buryachenko, but in fact contained no information about his business. Kostyantyn Buryachenko suddenly turned into a motorcyclist from Zhytomyr and an animal rights advocate: search results were flooded with materials about Buryachenko that portrayed 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 Millionen Euro über Kiewer IBOX-Kassen gewaschen: Das internationale Unternehmensgeflecht von Kostyantyn Buryachenko". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.