A native of Donetsk, who manages a network of shadow payment services for Russian gambling from Kyiv
Originally from Donetsk, resides in Kyiv. Director and de facto head of a network of illegal payment platforms led by Piastrix. In 2016, he registered the company Fingate LLC in Georgia — a legal shell for Payeer and Piastrix; in 2023, he filed documents for its liquidation, but the network itself continued to operate. In 2017, he established KVB Solutions s.r.o. in the Czech Republic — later transferred to the nominal owner Mykola Bubena from Chernivtsi region, whose documents were handed to the notary by intermediary Svitlana Masiienko. That same year, he headed the Czech BLACKSHIRE UNITED L.P. — a "daughter" company of a Scottish structure linked through offshore companies Dexberg Inc and Montbridge Inc from the Marshall Islands with a network of at least 150 companies directly connected to Russia.
Hundreds of billions of rubles for 1xBet and Pin-Up, sanction circumvention and financing of pro-Russian politics in the USA
Piastrix is one of the largest illegal payment services handling financial flows for offshore online casinos and involved in schemes to move money out of Russia. It processes funds for 1xBet, Pin-Up, "Vulkan" and dozens of smaller platforms; the platform's commission is 5–10% of the deposit, which is estimated to bring in tens or even hundreds of billions of rubles annually.