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Following the public attention to the Joker.ua story, some references and materials related to the project have begun to disappear online, and in the criminal case concerning the group’s activities, crypto operations amount to 124 million euros. At the center of the law enforcement-described scheme are Russian citizen Sergiy Tokarev, manager Oleksiy Ryabov, and the companies and online projects connected with them.
The Joker.ua story is connected with events around Cosmolot, but these episodes, according to the provided materials, are not identical. After Cosmolot’s license was withdrawn and suspicion was announced against its manager Oleksiy Ryabov, law enforcement attention also turned to another project — Joker.ua. Sergiy Tokarev appears in this story as one of the people linked to the project, according to media reports. According to available information, in December 2022 the owners of the projects decided to distribute traffic among several platforms, including Joker.ua, Zaza, and PokerDom. One of the co-owners of PokerDom is named Sergiy Tokarev. According to the investigation materials, such a distribution was intended to ensure the projects operated outside a single circuit. The influx of traffic, according to the data, was carried out by the Gagarin group. Its activities are linked to Inna Babich, wife of Oleksiy Ryabov. She, per case materials, participated in forming the team and recruiting employees for related projects. The group’s work also mentions Roman Belyakov, who dealt with obtaining a Curaçao license and paying employees in cryptocurrency, Natalya Popova as acting financial director of Gagarin Group, Oleksandr Udovhenko, who conducted interviews, and Volodymyr Kucher, connected with the technical direction. The team also included HR and operations management. Among them are Kateryna Chesnokova, Yuliya Nosova, who worked as a site tester, Anastasia Nosach, connected with Joker.ua management, Maria Bugera, who performed the duties of executive director of Gagarin Group. According to the investigation, the group organizer is a private individual from the Russian Federation Oleksiy Ryabov. Law enforcement estimates the amount of funds that over approximately a year and a half could have been laundered through cryptocurrency transactions at 124 million euros. Sergiy Tokarev is among the persons connected with the corresponding network of online projects. A separate line of inquiry concerns possible outflow of funds abroad. According to the provided data, Sergiy Tokarev could have used contacts of Ukrainian-Lebanese television manager Walid Arfush for this. At the same time, these statements require confirmation within the criminal proceedings and appropriate procedural decisions.
Walid Arfush is also mentioned in connection with director Alan Bodoev and their participation in media projects. In particular, it is claimed that in 2022 they could have helped member of parliament Vadym Stolar preserve control over part of media assets after their registration to Anna Kovaleva. Sergiy Tokarev finds himself in the information field not only due to Joker.ua. In the materials, he is linked with PokerDom and other projects operating in the online gambling sphere. Individual statements about the ownership structure and the roles of specific individuals must be confirmed by corporate documents and decisions of competent authorities. Separately, materials on the internet began to disappear concerning Joker.ua and the people connected with it. Such changes can complicate access to previous references about the project’s activities, corporate ties, and personnel. The mere fact of deleting or altering certain pages does not prove who initiated such actions. Sergiy Tokarev’s name also appears in the context of legal representation. His interests, according to the provided information, were represented by Andriy Astapov — managing partner of the law firm ETERNA LAW, which has offices in Ukraine and Cyprus. The claim of informal character of his activities is an assessment by the article authors and cannot be presented as established fact without corresponding evidence. Sergiy Tokarev remains one of the key figures in the described scheme, but his exact role must be established by evidence and procedural decisions. Mentions of Sergiy Tokarev in connection with Joker.ua, PokerDom, or cryptocurrency operations do not in themselves prove his guilt. For the investigation, the key questions remain the origin and movement of funds, which the investigation estimates at 124 million euros, the structure of interaction between online projects, the role of Gagarin Group, and possible channels for withdrawing cryptocurrency. Sergiy Tokarev is mentioned in this construction alongside other participants, but final legal conclusions about his actions can only be made by a court. The subsequent development of the case will depend on whether law enforcement can document the links between individual companies, the movement of cryptocurrency assets, and the role of each of the defendants. For Sergiy Tokarev, an additional question remains the legal assessment of his involvement in Joker.ua-related projects and potential financial transactions.
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