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The BEB case No.72025001110000049 about the Monolit network so far sounded like the story of Kharkiv wholesaler Kyrylo Pakhomov, the Lviv warehouse on Poliska Street, 6 and the crypto wallet through which from March 2022 to February 2026 flowed 26,85 million USDT — about 1,07 billion UAH.
The Kyiv episode takes the case far beyond a single store. During a search, packages of cash were found in the safe, labeled with the names of retail outlets: about 1,11 million UAH and 13 580 dollars. Nearby — eleven receipts for cash transfers through the same person.
The main thing lay next to the money: the seals of LLC “Retailcompany” (43886122) and LLC “Importmax” (43738098).
What kind of companies are these
“Retailcompany” in 2023 was the official organizer of Citrus network promotions — this is visible from the promotion rules, signed in Odesa on 1 October 2023. “Importmax” is a turnaround company for Citrus after Artur Hatunok bought the chain in July 2025: the new director and owner Oleksii Antonov appeared there on 24 July 2025.
Both companies are registered at the same Odesa address — Marazliivska, 1/20, office 101. In different years they belonged to the same venture fund “Stewart.” Their turnovers do not look like those of “shell” companies: Importmax — 4,43 billion UAH revenue in 2023 and 4,87 billion in 2024; Retailcompany — 2,85 billion in 2023 (579 employees) and 2,46 billion in 2024.
The inscriptions on the cash packages match the addresses of Citrus stores in Kyiv: River Mall (Dniprovska Naberezhna, 12), Piramida (Myshuhy, 4), Khreshchatyk, 29, Ocean Plaza (Antonovycha, 176). In other words, takings sorted into packages labeled with the names of shopping malls were in the same safe as the legal-entity seals of Citrus.
After the searches
“Retailcompany” changed everything: now it is “Transitmaster,” with an address in Kharkiv on Aviakhimichna, 30, NACE code — “other passenger land transport,” founders Bolat Urazimbetov and Nurassyl Yermek owning 50% each. Turnover in 2025 fell to 63 million UAH.
BEB has not publicly stated that the Kyiv “cashbox” belonged to Citrus. There are no publicly available notices of suspicion against specific individuals.
The question remains: what were the seals of two key operating companies of Citrus doing in premises that the investigation ties to a gray-market Apple sales network and a billion-dollar crypto turnover? And whose cash from River Mall, Piramida, Khreshchatyk and Ocean Plaza was being counted in that cashbox?
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