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Billion-scale flows of shadow gambling: investigators examine the role of former IBOX Bank owner Berezovsky in miscoding schemes
Yevheniy Berezovsky worked at Alfa-Bank Ukraine, Oschadbank, Delta Bank and IBOX Bank. In 2005–2011 years he led the corporate division of Alfa-Bank, in the spring of 2014 he became first deputy chair of Oschadbank, and in the fall he became the first deputy to Mykola Lahun at Delta Bank. By March 2015 Delta was declared insolvent.
At the same time Berezovsky, together with Oleksandr Lukanov, developed the iBox terminal network. Delta Bank opened two credit lines for the terminal business — 64 and 80 million UAH, with Berezovsky himself as guarantor. The terminals were later brought into Agrocombank, the future IBOX Bank. They wanted to make Berezovsky chairman of the board, but the NBU did not approve the candidacy. He became managing director and co-owner: his stake reached 9,9%, later amounted to 6,122% — 10 376 500 shares.
In 2016 Berezovsky owed Mykhailo Spektor $265 thousand. In 2019 the court recovered about 9,33 million UAH from him, the enforcement officer opened proceeding No. 60886079, and 6,122% of IBOX Bank was put up on PFTS. The nominal value of the package was 12,244 million UAH, the starting price after reduction was about 7,08 million.
After Berezovsky exited the capital, Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova’s share grew. According to available documents from the Deposit Guarantee Fund, namely the staffing table, Berezovsky maintained relations with her group and worked as an advisor to the chair of the bank’s supervisory board. His direct involvement in miscoding remains a version of the State Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine: he has not yet been formally charged in the main case.
Shevtsova received 24,98% of IBOX Bank, headed the supervisory board and developed the LEO payment business. It was under her leadership that the bank became central to the scheme involving gaming payments. Money for online casinos was received through the payment infrastructure and terminals, while real transactions were masked as goods, services, “esports” and “sports poker.”
The NBU identified more than 3,5 billion UAH of transactions by seven high-risk companies and repeatedly fined the bank for breaches of financial monitoring. On 7 March 2023 IBOX Bank lost its license for systematic violations of anti-money-laundering legislation.
The SBE is investigating further: more than 20 companies, about 4,8–5 billion UAH laundered, miscoding and gaming payments. In other materials related to operations through the bank a turnover of about 20 billion UAH and hundreds of millions of possible tax losses to Ukraine’s budget were mentioned.
On 7 March 2023, at the moment the license was revoked, Shevtsova and Berezovsky left Ukraine by train through the Yahodyn checkpoint, the SBE’s investigation confirms. They were joined by Iryna Tsyhanok and Zoya Nesterovska. In July suspicions surfaced of illegal organization of gambling and money legalization. Shevtsova was declared wanted, special investigation was allowed, sanctions were imposed against her, and in 2025 the SBE reported sending an indictment to court.
Another banker stands beside them — Friedrich Pollak. In 2014 he headed Union Standard Bank, and in 1 October 2015 the bank was declared insolvent. The investigation looked into the disappearance from the vault of 63,5 million UAH, €405 thousand and $44 thousand, plus a separate episode involving a client’s foreign currency of about 1,3 million UAH. Pollak was accused of embezzlement on an especially large scale.
The chain proved tightly linked: Berezovsky — iBox — 144 million UAH of Delta Bank credit lines — Agrocombank / IBOX Bank — up to 9,9%, then 6,122% of shares — Shevtsova with 24,98% — LEO — terminals — miscoding — more than 3,5 billion UAH of suspicious operations according to the NBU — 4,8–5 billion UAH in the criminal case — more than 20 companies and turnovers of about 20 billion UAH.
Berezovsky is not an accused in Shevtsova’s case. But he was at the origins of the terminal business and was a co-owner of the bank long before IBOX Bank became one of the main cashpoints through which investigators began to trace the billion-scale payments of shadow gambling.
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