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400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
After the death of the well-known crypto trader Kostiantyn Hanich, who was known under the pseudonym Kostya Kudo, legal disputes with creditors began around his estate. At the same time, law enforcement is investigating the activities of the crypto-education project Cryptology Key associated with him, and the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) added the brand to its list of potentially dangerous SCAM projects.
This is reported in a Telegraph article.
At present, at least four lawsuits are known, two of which claim amounts reaching 400 thousand dollars. To prevent assets from disappearing before the proceedings conclude, the court imposed a seizure on a share of an apartment, bank accounts, a Lamborghini Urus and a Ferrari 296 GTB that are part of the inheritance.
This is an important finale to the story of a person who sold the public the image of a successful trader and mentor. But the debt drama around Kostya Kudo is only the most visible fragment of a larger picture. Alongside private investments there was the school Cryptology Key, which earned money on expensive courses, promoted its own tokens, built an international “facade” in London and came under the scrutiny of several state authorities.
This story shows why the info-business becomes dangerous when charisma substitutes for a license, displays of luxury substitute for reporting, and personal trust in a guru substitutes for legal guarantees.
Creditors come after the estate
On social media, Hanich presented himself as someone who understands the market better than others: trading, expensive cars, confident forecasts and access to supposedly special knowledge. Some clients did not limit themselves to training or consultations but also transferred real funds or stablecoins (from English stablecoin — a general term for a type of cryptocurrency whose rate is pegged to fiat money) to Kostiantyn for trading on exchanges.
Court materials indicate that relationships were formalized as “investment agreements.” Under them Hanich undertook to conduct speculative operations on exchange markets and share profits. The problem with this model is obvious: the investor effectively hands money to a specific person, and instead of bank supervision, risk insurance or transparent reporting receives a contract backed only by the trader’s reputation.
After Hanich’s suicide, which occurred against the backdrop of a massive crypto market crash and the simultaneous loss of investor funds, this arrangement collapsed. Some “partners” went to court trying to recover lost funds from the heirs — Kostiantyn’s parents, Halyna and Taras Hanich, and his ex-wife Anastasiia Klimova.
At this time, at least four civil claims from creditors are in the court register:
Tetiana Chemicheva demands the return of 296 874 USDT (equivalent to almost 300 thousand U.S. dollars) under two investment agreements;
Ivan-Vladyslav Kirkach is suing for 100 thousand dollars;
Two more debt recovery claims were filed by Mykola Khatmullin and Oleksandr Lysenko, but the amounts of their claims are unknown.
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400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
Civil claims do not prove fraud by themselves, and under the Civil Code of Ukraine heirs are liable for the deceased’s debts only to the extent of the value of the inherited property. Court documents show that Hanich’s official estate turned out to be rather limited: it is estimated at approximately 600 thousand U.S. dollars. It includes 1/5 shares of an apartment in an ordinary nine-story building on Pivnichna Street in Kyiv, modest cash deposits in JSC “Universal Bank” and two supercars — a Lamborghini Urus and a Ferrari 296 GTB. So these funds will scarcely be enough to pay creditors who went to court.
However, media outlets have suggested that the deceased guru’s real obligations could amount to 30–60 million dollars (!). How investors will recover these funds is an open question. Perhaps the answer was in Hanich’s own statements about the alleged theft of access to his main crypto wallet by unknown persons. Where these millions actually ended up and whether they existed at the time of Kostya Kudo’s death remains a mystery.
The school that sold more than just knowledge
Contrasting with the investment agreement scheme, Kostiantyn Hanich’s crypto school — Cryptology Key — continues to recruit students. The project, founded in 2022, still actively sells courses priced from 700 to 1500 USDT (effectively 700–1500 U.S. dollars, or the equivalent in hryvnias 29–62 thousand UAH). For these amounts newcomers are promised to be taught to “read” the market, spot the movement of large players, find liquidity and use technical tools to forecast price.
On one hand, the school operated without an educational license and hid behind a fictitious partnership with the West Ukrainian National University, as court documents state. The educational institution officially informed in response to a request that it has no relation to the trading school.
On the other hand, selling trading courses in itself is not a violation. The problem starts where the educational product creates the illusion of an almost guaranteed path to profit, and the authority of the instructor gradually becomes the basis to entrust him with money or buy an asset he promotes. In other words, people are sold not so much knowledge as a shortcut to success.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
And therein lies the main danger of the info-hustle — the risks hide behind professional jargon, mentors’ nicknames, graduate success stories and photos of expensive cars. If a student starts earning, it’s proof of the method’s power. If they lose invested funds, they’re told they lacked discipline or didn’t follow instructions correctly. In such a system the school always wins because it receives payment for the course regardless of students’ subsequent successes or losses.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
And if the project’s leadership knows how to use the law to its advantage — it ends up with a double benefit. The materials from the BEB case clearly demonstrate this. By the way, the relevant criminal proceeding under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (tax evasion on an especially large scale) was initiated while Hanich was still alive — in May 2025.
During analytical research, detectives concluded that multi-million profits from course sales were split and “scattered” across 29 controlled sole proprietors. This made it possible to conceal the real scale of the info-business, avoid paying 20% VAT and 18% corporate tax, and also to not register real employees.
Preliminarily, the BEB estimated possible unpaid taxes for 2023–2024 years at 70,1 million UAH: 36,8 million UAH of VAT and 33,3 million UAH of corporate tax. This is not a debt definitively established by a court sentence, but a calculation in the pre-trial investigation materials that must be verified by forensic economic expertise. And based on these data the court must determine who is responsible for the violations.
Five tokens of success and an almost zero price
A separate episode in the materials of the Bureau of Economic Security concerns the issuance of tokens — Furmula, Emoji, Water, Rafpaf and Popcorn — whose appearance is associated with the Cryptology Key circle. These coins did not become full-fledged projects with noticeable use or stable demand, and were traded mainly on decentralized platforms where you can create a token and a liquidity pool without checking the issuer’s business model.
According to the investigation’s version, the courses’ audience could be encouraged to buy these assets as promising. To create an illusion of demand, organizers moved funds through a network of controlled transit wallets, artificially buying tokens from themselves and painting cosmic-looking price growth charts.
When trusting students bought coins at peak prices, the scheme creators suddenly pulled liquidity (the supporting capital). In other words, they withdrew real funds from the exchange (accumulated there SOL and USDT), leaving buyers with worthless digital “wrappers.” This mechanic is known as Pump & Dump.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
BEB detectives suspect that the token creators could have made a tidy profit from issuing and selling “air” tokens. They allegedly invested the proceeds in premium real estate and purchases of elite vehicles. The investigation cites as concrete examples of such “legalization” the elite supercars Lamborghini Urus and Ferrari 296 GTB, which, it is known, belonged to Hanich.
However, to reach a final conclusion about these tokens it is necessary to identify their issuers, analyze the wallets and confirm the movement of funds via expertise. And it is these proofs that the BEB must later use as arguments in court.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
By the way, the mentioned tokens can still be found and purchased on decentralized exchanges today. They cost fractions of a cent, and daily trading volumes amount to a few dollars. This means there are no real buyers, the projects are dead, and student assets have depreciated by 100%.
Evolution of the platform: from an anonymous website to a London registration
The educational project Cryptology Key did not have a separate legal entity in Ukraine with the identical name. The platform functioned purely as a brand, and official rights to the trademark “CryptologyKey” (certificate No. 335729, registered 26.07.2023, although the application was filed back in 2021) on paper belonged in equal shares to three key figures: Kostiantyn Hanich (now deceased Kostya Kudo), Vadym Voloshyn and Allan Kurban-Magomedov.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
If Hanich acted as the public face and main speaker of the school, and Allan Kurban-Magomedov still actively maintains a public image on social networks, then their third partner and other project participants preferred to remain in the shadows.
At the same time each had registered companies, NGOs, funds and was simultaneously a sole proprietor. For example, Hanich had an activity code for consulting on informatization and education, Voloshyn’s main activities were “advertising agencies” and “supporting activities in the field of education,” and Kurban-Magomedov’s were “consulting on commercial activity and management.”
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
So, unlike Vadym, Allan is active on social networks; he, like Hanich once did, posts expensive cars and photo reports from closed crypto community meetings. Allan Kurban-Magomedov’s relatives — his parents and sister — are also sole proprietors with similar consulting and IT activity codes.
In parallel with filing the trademark application — in August 2021 — the domain cryptology.school was registered. The site’s technical maintenance is provided by a Ukrainian registrar, although the owner’s registration data are anonymized and network traffic is routed through the American Cloudflare system. At the same time the domain registration term was extended until 15 August 2027.
Apparently, to add solidity to the project, raise training fees and sell courses under the guise of “international qualification,” on 13 August 2024 the organizers registered in London the company CRYPTOLOGY KEY LABS LTD (Company number 15893692).
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
However, according to the British Companies House register, a certain Artem Yatsenko became the nominal director and majority owner of 50% of shares (50 shares). The rest of the shares were “held” by the trademark owners in Ukraine: Vadym Voloshyn (13%), Allan Kurban-Magomedov (13%), Kostiantyn Hanich (12%) and another “dark horse” Vladyslav Bychkov (12%).
If Bychkov has an indirect connection with the Ukrainian part of the team (registered at the same address either with a relative or a namesake Viacheslav Bychkov — Voloshyn’s partner at LLC “Hrupirowka Fudz”), it has not been possible so far to find traces of Yatsenko in Ukraine. When registering the company in Britain he indicated only a local firm’s address as a service address. This points to the role of a nominee owner.
By the way, later CRYPTOLOGY KEY LABS LTD “moved” to 86–90 Paul Street, London — a well-known location for mass registration of virtual offices, where thousands of shell companies from around the world are registered. And in August 2025 Voloshyn completely zeroed out his share, transferring it to partners. Strangely, this legal “exit from the game” coincided in time with the moment when analysts at the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) were completing the formation of materials regarding the company’s unpaid taxes of 70 million UAH, and only weeks remained before the tragic shot in Hanich’s Lamborghini.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
Currently CRYPTOLOGY KEY LABS LTD is in default of British corporate law. The British register’s website shows a mark about overdue mandatory annual reporting and the initiation of a procedure for compulsory company closure.
Regulator called the project dubious; owners appealed
Another blow to the Cryptology Key project came from the regulator. As early as 18 November 2025 the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) put it on the blacklist of potentially dangerous SCAM projects due to signs of fraud and the absence of any state licenses.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
Obviously not wishing to lose the promoted brand, co-owners of the trademark CryptologyKey — Vadym Voloshyn and Allan Kurban-Magomedov — filed a joint suit against the Commission with the Kyiv District Administrative Court. The decision to open proceedings is dated 10 June 2026.
400 thousand dollars in court and 70 million hryvnias in taxes: after the death of Kostya Kudo creditors demand money, and Lamborghini and Ferrari were seized from the estate
Interestingly, Voloshyn acted as a full plaintiff, despite the fact that in August 2025 he had completely dumped his 13% of shares in London’s CRYPTOLOGY KEY LABS LTD and legally distanced himself from the British corporate layer. Nevertheless, in Ukraine he still officially retains 1/3 shares in the certificate for the trademark “CryptologyKey.”
So now the parties must prove their positions in court: the Commission — the validity of its warning, the plaintiffs — its illegality.
The paradox is that the brand continues to operate as usual. The site works, managers sell new programs, and a potential client may not even know about the NSSMC list, the tax investigation, or the creditors’ claims against the estate of one of the co-founders.
This is the weak spot of state protection against crypto info-business. The regulator can publish a warning, law enforcement can begin an investigation, and the court can consider cases for years. But months or years can pass between the first danger signal and the actual cessation of risky practice. During all that time the project continues to sell trust.
Why info-hustling is never harmless
Info-hustling is often perceived as a form of pushy advertising: a grown person chooses whether to pay for a course. In the financial sphere such indulgence is dangerous. Here the client risks not only the cost of training. After a course they may be guided to the next step — hand money to the mentor, buy a recommended token, or trade on margin.
A closed loop emerges. First the guru demonstrates success and sells knowledge. Then knowledge creates trust in the guru. Trust turns into investment. And when the money disappears, responsibility dissolves among market risk, anonymous wallets, sole proprietors, offshore companies and contracts that do not provide real protection.
That is why the harm from such a business is measured not only by the sums in the criminal case. It includes devalued savings, debts, family conflicts, distrust of the legitimate financial market and the conviction that finding the right mentor is enough to cancel the laws of risk.
The story of Cryptology Key does not yet have a final legal ending. There is no verdict in the tax proceeding, the suit against the NSSMC is yet to be considered, and the creditors’ claims against Hanich’s heirs are still making their way through the courts. Nevertheless, it already demonstrates the cost of a model in which an educational brand, a personal cult and opaque financial operations merge into a single ecosystem.
After the death of the main public figure of this system, his family received the bill. Students were left with courses and tokens, creditors — with lawsuits, the state — with allegedly unpaid taxes. And the site that sold a path to financial freedom continues to accept new clients.
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