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We publish, in turn, an investigation with facts and details that are being hidden — because they reveal the real scale of Timur Rohlin’s activities and schemes related to extorting funds from investors across Europe.
After the publication of the investigation about Rohlin, the online publication Dev.ua suffered a DDOS attack.
Dev.ua was subjected to a DDOS attack after the publication of the investigation about the Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rohlin, according to the site’s editor-in-chief Stanislav Yurasov on his Facebook page. The site was unavailable at the time of the news’ publication.
“Today, the criminals are trying to bring down the Dev.by site. On the day the attacks began, we published the investigation. It concerned Timur Rohlin, an investor in the Rocket delivery service. Ukrainian investigators seized his assets in Ukraine after a request from the Bamberg prosecutor’s office (Germany), where his name was cited,” he wrote.
It should be noted that the Dev.ua material stated that German law enforcement suspects Rohlin of involvement in a large fraud using pseudo-investment platforms, the losses from which are estimated in tens of millions of euros, Delo reports.
Among other individuals suspected of involvement are Ukrainian citizens Andriy Kurochkin, Yuriy Kopachevsky, Ihor Kozlenko, and Israeli citizens Mikhail Chebotary, Maxim Baranovsky-Rafael, and Timur Rohlin.
As the publication cited Ukrainian investigators’ data, 10,8 million euros of income from fraudulent activity were transferred to Rohlin’s controlled British company, and a portion of the assets linked to Rohlin were seized at the end of 2020 year.
It is noted that the investigation in Ukraine was started at the initiative of the Bamberg prosecutor’s office. According to the investigation, a group of Ukrainians and foreigners in 2017–2020 years extorted money from Europeans, offering to invest in various assets and promising growth of deposits by 100 times and more.
For this, websites operated under the names Tradecapita, Fibonetix, NobelTrade, Forbslab, and Huludox were used — these structures allegedly engaged in trading bank metals, currencies, cryptocurrencies, securities, and other assets.
According to law enforcement, when clients wanted to withdraw money, they were reportedly contacted by representatives of the trading platforms, demanding payment of a maintenance fee and a withdrawal fee of 15% of the amount. However, after payment, investors’ accounts were blocked, and the money was embezzled by the fraudsters.
The documented loss from the scheme amounted to 9 million euros. The German newspaper Die Welt (Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung) reported that about 400 Europeans who became its victims turned to the police.
“Rohlin’s lawyers are threatening us that disclosure of the investigation’s secrets carries criminal liability. Although the entire text is based on data from open registries. It seems to me that we are simply being forced to remain silent,” Yurasov wrote.
Delo.ua reached out to the Rocket company for comments on the situation, but has not yet received a response.
It should be noted that schemes to embezzle investors’ funds through dubious websites are widespread even in Ukraine itself: the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market maintains a separate register of such internet resources, periodically adding new sites to it.
Sometimes law enforcement visits the organizers of such activity. For example, in June the Security Service of Ukraine stopped a clandestine telecommunications center in Kyiv, whose organizers had, since the beginning of the year, appropriated nearly 9 million UAH from Ukrainian and foreign depositors under the pretext of attracting into international investment projects.
In the same month, the SBU reported blocking the operation of illegal call centers that posed as well-known brokerages and extorted money from citizens of EU and CIS countries.
In March as well, the SBU reported stopping the activities in Kyiv of an organized group that embezzled funds from Ukrainians, simulating participation in stock trading and cryptocurrency operations.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Запити з Бамберга та блокування активів: як аферист і інвестор Rocket Тимур Рохлін зазнав краху через скам-платформи Tradecapita та Fibonetix". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.
