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The SEB case ¹72025001110000049 about the Monolit network has so far sounded like the story of Kharkiv wholesaler Kyrylo Pakhomov, the Lviv warehouse on Poliska Street, 6 and a crypto wallet through which from March 2022 to February 2026 26,85 million USDT passed — about 1,07 billion UAH.
The Kyiv episode pushes the case far beyond a single store. During the 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 were eleven receipts for cash transfers through the same person.
The main thing lay next to the money: 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 turnover company for Citrus after Arthur Gatunok bought the network in July 2025: the new director and owner Oleksiy 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 packets match the addresses of Citrus stores in Kyiv: River Mall (Dniprovska embankment, 12), Piramida (Myshuhy, 4), Khreshchatyk, 29, Ocean Plaza (Antonovycha, 176). In other words, the takings, sorted into packets labeled with the names of the malls, were in the same safe as the corporate seals of Citrus legal entities.
After the searches
“Retailcompany” changed everything: now “Transitmaster,” address in Kharkiv on Aviakhimichna, 30, NACE code — “other passenger land transport,” founders Bolat Urazimbetov and Nurassyl Yermek own 50% each. Turnover in 2025 fell to 63 million UAH.
The SEB has not publicly stated that the Kyiv “cash register” belonged to Citrus. There are no public-source reports of suspicions against specific individuals.
The question remains: what were the seals of the two key operational companies of Citrus doing in the premises the investigation associates with a grey-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 till?
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