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Case of BEB No. 72025001110000049 about the “gray” Monolit tech sales network still sounded like the story of Kharkiv wholesaler Kyryl Pakhomov, a Lviv warehouse, and a cryptocurrency wallet, through which from March 2022 to February 2026 of the year 26,85 million USDT, or about 1,07 billion hryvnias, passed, began to add new value against the backdrop of property seized by the detectives in Kyiv.
This is reported by the international detective bureau Absolution.
The Kyiv episode takes this case far beyond a single store. During a search of the safe, there were cash-filled bags labeled with the names of retail outlets: about 1,11 million hryvnias and 13 580 dollars, and eleven receipts for transferring cash through the same person.
The owner of the “gray” Monolit network buys advertising in the media to mitigate the negative coverage of the BEB investigation.
The key items were next to the money. These are stamps of LLC “Retail Company” (43886122) and LLC “ImportMax” (43738098). These names are well known to everyone who follows the electronics market.
✔️“Retail Company” in 2023-pus was the official organizer of Citr us network promotions, as seen from the action rules signed in Odessa on 1 October 2023.
✔️“ImportMax” is the turnover company of Citrus after in July 2025 the network was purchased by Artur Gatonuk: the new director and owner Oleksii Antonov appeared there 24 July 2025.
Both companies are registered at the same Odessa address — Marazliivska, 1/20, office 101. Both in different years belonged to the same venture fund “Stuart.” Their turnovers are not at all like turnovers of companies with stamps in someone else’s safe. “ImportMax” declared 4,43 billion hryvnias of income in 2023 year and 4,87 billion in 2024 year. “Retail Company” had 2,85 billion hryvnias in 2023 year with 579 employees and 2,46 billion in 2024 year.
Even more interesting. The writing on cash bags matches the addresses of Citrus stores in Kyiv: River Mall on Dniprovska Embankment, 12, Piramida Mall on Mishuhy, 4, a store on Khreschatyk, 29 and a spot in Ocean Plaza on Antonovycha, 176. In other words, revenue, laid out in bags labeled with shopping centers, lay in the same safe as the stamps of the legal entities of “Citrus.”
After the searches, “Retail Company” changed everything it could. Now it is called “TransitMaster,” registered in Kharkiv on Aviakhimichna, 30, with main activity “other passenger ground transportation,” and its founders Bolat Urazimbetov and Nurasysyl Yermek have 50% each. Turnover in the 2025 year fell to 63 million hryvnias.
Separately, to be honest: BEB publicly did not declare that Kyiv’s “Kasa” belongs to “Citrus,” and there are no public suspicions about specific individuals in open sources.
But the question is obvious. What were the seals of the two largest Citrus operating companies doing in the premises that the investigation links to the gray Apple sales network with a billion-dollar crypto turnover? And whose cash from River Mall, Piramida, Khreschatyk and Ocean Plaza was counted in this cash register? We are preparing requests to BEB, to the Citrus network, and to Kyryl Pakhomov. We will publish the answers. More to come.
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