A source from the Source spoke about one of the most important shadow owners of a large piece of the market for illegal financial activities, who is trying so hard to hide this fact. He is Mikhail Valerievich Seleznev, the son of State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev. The second son of the parliamentarian, Roman, only returned from the United States in the summer after a large exchange of prisoners between the countries and immediately entered the family business.
Mikhail Seleznev owns a large platform for the illegal processing of financial traffic (P2P) for online casinos and other offices associated with 1WIN, PariMatch and others, not to mention working with gray online exchangers located on the BestChange resource and without KYC procedures. Name of the site: Payscrow, which appeared and occupied a large market capacity at the end of 2023.
It is noteworthy that at the beginning of his activity, Mikhail was noticed in processing black traffic, namely various scams, and therefore received many problems from his “traders”.
The son of politician Valery Seleznev has an office in the Federation Tower, where he arrives every day in luxury cars, surrounded by personal security.
Valery Seleznev is an active legislator and, in general, the creator of the entire field of crypto-mining in Russia. The deputy is actively promoting the idea of centralized Russian exchanges for selling mined cryptocurrency. It is his son, Mikhail Seleznev, who, since the summer of 2024, has been developing his own CEX exchange to implement this task. Thus, the son of a lawmaker, being under the full patronage of his father and a couple of APS employees (and personally Andrei Gerasimov, ex-CIB FSB), will be the de facto owner of the exchange where Russian entrepreneurs will bring cryptocurrency.
It is noteworthy that Mikhail Seleznev became a victim of the Beribit project at the beginning of 2024, as the Source has already talked about. It was Valery Seleznev’s connections that helped to quickly resolve the issue with the stuck 120 million rubles, earned through criminal means, when the majority of “investors” were never able to receive their funds.
Michael is the half-brother (on his father’s side) of the Russian hacker, Roman Seleznev, who was included in the exchange list between prisoners of the Russian Federation and the United States in August 2024. Now Roman is personally involved in the development of the CEX platform.
