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The son of former Head of the Presidential Administration Ihor Raynin opened a chain of restaurants in Warsaw. The establishments’ manager turned out to be a person connected to sanctioned individuals and the gambling business. Service and advertising at the main of these venues are conducted in Russian, and waiters often may not receive their wages.
This is reported by the Antikor portal.
The company Inspector gastro group was registered in January 2023 in Poland’s capital, Warsaw. The co-founders are Anatolii Raynin and Kateryna Onatska. Anatolii is the son of the former Head of the Presidential Administration during Petro Poroshenko’s presidency, who later defected to the now-banned party Opposition Platform — For Life.
Anatolii Raynin moved to Poland before the full-scale invasion. In 2021 he published photos with his future business partner Kateryna Onatska. The pictures make it clear they are a couple.
Raynin Jr. uses a social media handle that abbreviates to the surname of the world’s most famous drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar. Under the same name, Anatolii Raynin opened his first restaurant in Warsaw. The venue’s rating on the well-known site Tripadvisor is 2,9, which indicates an extremely unsatisfactory atmosphere.
In 2022 there was a large-scale brawl at the restaurant “Escobar.” The news spread widely on social media, and at that time the first comments appeared alleging that employees were not being paid their wages and were effectively being exploited.
Later Raynin and Onatska opened the restaurants Inspector lounge, Canoe lounge, Senator and prepared to open Ambassador by Inspector.
Inspector lounge was considered the flagship restaurant. It was the most promoted on social media and the most popular. The entire advertising campaign was conducted exclusively in Russian, despite the fact that the eatery is located in the heart of the Polish capital.
On social media you can find many comments stating that employees at Raynin’s establishments are systematically not paid. Over the past month at least two videos appeared in which workers say management feeds them promises of imminent payment, but they never receive the money, and the manager even blocked them on social networks.
According to Polish registries, the chairman of the board of Inspector gastro group is Rakhman Rasulzade.
A person with the same name in 2014 was involved in a criminal case in Ukraine concerning a forged Azerbaijani passport. The investigation found that when crossing the Ukrainian border Rasulzade presented a document with stamps of previous visits to Ukraine that turned out to be fake. The suspect pleaded guilty and reached a plea agreement, paying a fine.
One of the forged stamps in Rakhman Rasulzade’s passport was placed when crossing the Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi checkpoint. That is the hometown of both Anatolii Raynin’s family and his partner Kateryna Onatska’s family.
As of autumn 2026, Kateryna Onatska Shakroivna was a co-founder of LLC Zelenyi furhon-2011 together with her brother Roman Kopaliani, mother Olena Kopaliani and uncle Khuta Ambrosovych Kopaliani. The company engaged in freight transport but is now in the process of liquidation. Its director and signatory was Dmytro Onatskyi.
Kateryna Onatska’s brother Roman Kopaliani was a co-founder of LLC Factorial Complexity until 2016. The company is involved in computer programming as well as game development and is still operating today. And this is not the only gaming link in the chain of interconnected companies and individuals.
Kateryna Onatska’s father Shakro Kopaliani once worked at the Kharkiv Car Repair Plant, which belonged to the group of the former Naftogaz head Oleh Dubyna. Among the plant’s shareholders until 2009 was the Russian Tverskoy Wagon Repair Plant.
Rakhman Rasulzade’s social media page indicates he is a co-founder of Inspector lounge. From comments by affected employees of the group’s establishments it is known that they communicated with him regarding the outstanding debts.
He was also presented in December 2025 as a patron of a chess tournament in Ukraine.
The event organizer is Oleksandr Dovzhenko, known as the founder of the advertising agency Enter Esport, which specializes in esports and influencer marketing. Dovzhenko is also the manager of the esports team LeoGaming, which in 2023 rebranded as L&G. In 2024 the team changed its name again and became Leo Team.
The main sponsor of the team LeoGaming was the payment system Leogaming, associated with the notorious iBox Bank. The bank was suspected of large-scale money laundering of funds from the gambling business totaling approximately 5 billion hryvnias. The structure was closed in 2023, exactly when Anatolii Raynin began developing the restaurant business in Poland, and at the same time Rakhman Rasulzade was appointed chairman of the board and linked to LeoGaming.
Co-owner of iBox Bank was Aliona Shevtsova (Dehryk), against whom sanctions were imposed by the National Security and Defense Council.
In December 2024 Aliona Shevtsova commented on the rebranding of the Leo Team as a co-founder.
In April 2025 law enforcement detained the director of a department of iBox Bank, Iryna Tsyhanok. The arrest took place in Poland. The woman is a suspect in a criminal case about laundering 5 billion hryvnias, in which Aliona Shevtsova is being “sought.”
Aliona Shevtsova ‘‘left traces’’ not only in Ukraine. From a letter by the Polish prosecutor’s office sent to Ukraine, it appears that funds in the amount of 2.5 million euros were received into accounts belonging to Shevtsova and her sister opened at BNP Paribas Polska SA, likely obtained illegally. The sender is listed as the company Max express LLC registered in Georgia. The money was sent from British accounts.
Max express LLC was sanctioned by Ukraine’s NSDC in 2023 together with Aliona Shevtsova’s Leogaming. The restrictions were imposed as part of efforts to combat the illegal gambling business.
In comments about Anatolii Raynin’s restaurants many write online that, likely, this business was opened to launder funds. One can also read that guests were often asked to pay in cash or cryptocurrency.
On 7 October 2026 a message appeared on the Inspector lounge page that the venue is closing permanently. All previous posts were deleted, and consequently the comments under them.
Anatolii Raynin’s restaurant business in Warsaw began to actively develop in 2023, precisely when Aliona Shevtsova’s iBox was shut down over large-scale money laundering from the gambling business. At that time Rakhman Rasulzade was brought in to manage the restaurant business, and he is connected to Shevtsova by a single handshake. Later the banker’s main accomplice was caught in Poland, and it turned out that funds from the illegal gambling business, placed on sanctions lists, passed through Polish banks. Too many coincidences, too many Ukrainian surnames and too many criminal cases that could very well be links in the same chain.
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