Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov supply the Ukrainian army with billions through Empayre and Dmitry Punin’s Pin-up online casino

Read on to learn how Aleksey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov supply the Ukrainian army with billions through Empayre.сom in exchange for a luxurious life in the heart of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and beyond its borders…

Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov are the owners of Empayre.com and affiliated Calypso Group (Calypso Pay) and Gate.Express

As we reported earlier, remaining in the shadows, the main swindlers and swindlers Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov, who created an entire organized crime group (OCG), for 6 years, from 2018 to 2023, thoroughly went through a number of Russian banks with their high-risks and NPOs, as a result of which all of them, without exception, had their licenses revoked by the Central Bank.

But the most important thing is that the main income of the swindlers Korneev and Mannanova is formed by servicing the largest Ukrainian online casinos, which contribute billions of hryvnia to the budget of Ukraine to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and now we will prove everything

As we mentioned earlier, Alexey Korneev, together with Ruslan Mannanov, are the main beneficiaries of their company Empayre.com and its affiliates Calypso Pay and Gate.Express. Empayre.com, in turn, is an online payment provider and payment gateway, as can be seen primarily from the Empayre company website.

The ownership of Alexey Korneev and the fact that he is the founder of the Empayre company is confirmed in a number of the following publicly available facts:

• His LinkedIn profilewhere affiliation with the companies Empayre.com and Gate.Express was indicated, as we mentioned from previous investigationsKorneev hastily deleted this mention after the release of our investigations, leaving only Calypso Pay
• A company of the same name registered in the UK – Empayre LTD, where the main beneficiary is Alexey Korneevwith residence in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and registration address: Moscow, Volzhsky Boulevard 13, apartment 228/229. As follows from our previous investigationbut is indicated as a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis – Kittitian.
• direct affiliation
  empayre.com directly to two other companies Korneev and Mannanova – Gate.Express and directly Calypso.finance. All three sites link to the same Canadian Calypso Pay LTD license linked to the site Calypso.financebased on the Canadian MSB (Money Services Business) registry, link is not registryat the very bottom of the register you can enter Calypso Pay and see the result.
• Mention of Alexey Korneev as the Founder of Empayre according to RB.RU (link here)and the Founder of the Calypso company according to Forbes.ru (link here). It is noteworthy that the website of the financial service Humo – humo.world is currently unavailable, but is said to work in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and the UAE. By the way, the name of the Humo service strangely coincides with the name of the Humo payment system involved in the chain of money withdrawal through Uzbek and Russian partners of Oktobank, which cooperates with the Vavada casino and with the already familiar Pin-UP. Excerpt from the article: “Financial experts called Oktobank the largest international “laundromat” through which the bank’s Russian partners, Sberbank and Transcapitalbank, launder money. In addition to the casino, Uzbekistan’s Kapitalbank participated in the money withdrawal chain, Humo payment systemUzcard processing, UzNex crypto exchange and others. The entire scheme was led by Dmitry Lee, head of the National Agency for Advanced Projects.”. Link to article. Coincidence? … I don’t think.. Below we will see this again.
• Korneev’s football team called Empayre with T-shirts in the brand of the Empayre.com website and its logo, and the entire team is members of his criminal group and the denominations of his companies in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) CARDON, SOFT RADAR, BLOCKCHAIN ​​ANALYTICS – Alexey Vaneev, Dmitry Sazonov, Viktor Ablin, Potapov Stanislav (link here). The only ones missing are Ruslan Mannanova and Igor Kogan, apparently their football didn’t work out.

Thus, there is absolutely no doubt that Alexey Korneev belongs to Empayre.com.

Let’s move on, the most interesting things are ahead…

Empayre.com Alexey Korneeva and Ruslana Mannanova exclusively serve all Russian traffic of the Ukrainian online casino Pin-up

So, through the analytics service similarweb.com which we used in previous investigationwe analyzed the Internet traffic of Empayre.com in more detail. Service Similarweb.com is an absolutely reliable source is a public company traded on an international exchange with a turnover of more than $218 million (link to Wikipedia).

And the picture came out simply amazing – we received absolutely reliable information that as of August-September 2024, it was Empayre.com that serviced payments from Russians in favor of the largest Ukrainian online casino Pin-up and its mirrors for several billion rubles. And he continues to do this at the moment.

Unfortunately, SimilarWeb in its free version provides analytics only for the last 3 months, but according to information from former colleagues of Korneev and Mannanov at RBK Money, VRbank (Fintech bank), Gate.Express, Calypso and Empayre have been servicing in different configurations for several years now Pin-up.

You can check all the information yourself, just register on Similarweb.com (you may need a VPN), activate the Trial version for free for 7 days, add the website empayre.com and go all the way from Empayre to the main website of the Pin-up online casino banned in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and its mirrors, as we did below in steps.

Step 1 – Analyze the Empayre.com website:

According to the analysis of the Empayre.com website, we see the following:

• 90% of traffic to Empayre.com for August – September 2024 comes from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) – screen 1.2
• Total visits – 343 thousand people for two months – screen 1.1, these are all people who made payments during the period – August – September 2024.
• The main source of traffic for Empayre.com is the website pin-up68a.com – this is nothing more than one of the mirrors of the Pin-up online casino, banned in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) – screenshots 1.3, 1.4.

When going to the section Incoming trafficwe see the same picture – all the traffic on Empayre.com comes from the Pin-up mirror – pin-up68a.comscreenshots 1.5, 1.6.

Now let’s move on to site analysis pin-up68a.com and we see the following picture:

Step 2 – Analyze the site pin-up68a.com:

Based on the analysis of the website pin-up68a.com, it is clear that this is a mirror of the Pin-up online casino banned in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism).

We see the following in detail:

• The number of visits to the site is simply huge – 2.1 MILLION peopleand of this only for August 2024 – 1.8 million people – screenshot 2.1, 2.2.
• 100% of traffic on the Pin-up mirror comes from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) – screen 1.3, which means all traffic to the site consists of Russian citizens.
• Go to the Outgoing Traffic section and open the See more outgoing links link (links where all these people go after visiting the Pin-up mirror).

And here is the real proof that the company Empayre.com, owned by Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov, services payments from Russian citizens in favor of mirrors of the Ukrainian online casino Pin-up, banned in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)

We see a link between the mirror site pin-up68a.com and Empayre.com:

In screenshots 2.6 and 2.7 we see that all the traffic of users of the Pin-up online casino mirror is pin-up68a.com:

• Firstlyall traffic is 100% of visitors from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)
• secondly and here is the most important thing!!!site payment traffic is linked to the Empayre payment form – checkout.empayre.comthis is exactly the payment form of Empayre.com, everything is obvious here.

Those. when a user on an online casino website clicks the button “pay”, “make a deposit”, “replenish your account”, etc., he is redirected to this form to make a payment and on this form selects one of the methods: Va, Mastercard, Mir and other cards, UZcard, Humo and even Beeline and Tele2, as you will see later.

Almost all casino deposits go through Va, Mastercard, Mir bank cards, and all these transactions go through P2P and droppers, since there are simply no other schemes left, such as wallet-based ones, due to the wholesale revocation of licenses from NPOs.

But there is a nuance – an agreement is needed with the acquiring bank and with the acquiring department so that they turn a blind eye to the substitution of the MCC code for the volume of transactions of several billion rubles per month, in this case, the guys have no problems with MTS Bank or Gazprombank, they have their own people there , such as Zhurav Max, which was mentioned earlier.

This is direct evidence that the payment provider Empayre.com, owned by Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov, processes all Russian payment traffic from mirrors of the Pin-up online casino banned in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism).

The following steps will show that all mirrors processed by Empayre are directly connected to the main Pin-up online casino.

Step 3 – Analyze the sources of traffic to the mirror site pin-up68a.com

We go to the section Top Referring websites (Main sources of traffic, where the traffic to pin-up68a.com comes from) for the mirror pin-up68a.com – Top Referring websites, wait for See more referrals (screen 3.1) and see the following:

• Screenshot 3.3 shows that the sources of traffic for the pin-up68a.com mirror are other Pin-up casino mirrors, There are more than 20 mirrors in total
• We take into analysis two mirrors pin-up51p.com and pin-up05a.com, which also receive 100% of incoming Russian traffic and it is from these mirrors that redirects are made to the mirror pin-up68a.com, connected to the payment gateway checkout.empayre.com

What the analysis of the mirror site pin-up51p.com shows:

We go to the section Top Referring websites (Main sources of traffic, where the traffic to pin-up68a.com comes from) for the mirror pin-up68a.com – Top Referring websites, wait for See more referrals (screen 3.1) and see the following:

• Site audience – 43 thousand peoplescreen 3.5
• Of these 100% are Russian citizensscreen 3.6
• Mirrors pin-up51p.com and pin-up68a.com cross-function as a source of Russian traffic for each other, screen 3.7.
• For the pin-up51p.com mirror, the source of traffic is more than 25 more mirrors.

This is what the website of the mirror itself looks like, pin-up51p.com.An important note – in order for the site to open, you need to log in through a VPN, for example, from the countries of Serbia, Thailand, South Africa, Indonesia.

• Assortment of the mirror site pin-up51p.com – Casinos, Lotteries, Sports betting, children’s casinos
• Accepting payments of all types – including the already familiar Humo, UZcard, Ukrainian Piastrix, even Beeline and Tele2. I wonder if these companies Beeline and Tele2 know that their accounts are used to pay for illegal online casinos?
• Party to the User Agreement is Carletta NV with registration number 142346 and business address: Dr. Henri Fergusonweg 1, Curacao. Postal address: Chuchubiweg 17, Willemstad, Curacao. Carletta NV has license No. OGL/2024/580/0570, which is issued by the Curacao Gaming Control Board. BWI Black-Wood Limited is registered and incorporated under the laws of Cyprus; registered address: Panagioti Toumazou, 37 Epkopi, 4620, Limassol, Cyprus. Carletta Limited is registered and incorporated under the laws of Cyprus; registered address: Riga Feraiou, 7-9 Lizantia Court, Office 310, Agios Omologites, 1087, Nicosia, Cyprus, acting as paying agents for the parent company Carletta NV
• Let us remind you that the main beneficiaries of Carletta NV are the Ukrainian businessmen we mentioned Igor Zotko, Maria Ilyina, its frontman Dmitry Punin and Alexander Riddick, who own the completely official Ukrainian online casino Pin-up, which we will talk about later.

And here is what people write about these companies on the Internet – about the company BWI Black-Wood Limited and about the company Carletta NV.. As we can see from the reviews, this is a pure scam, and the injured party is an ordinary Russian citizen.

There is no doubt that this is a mirror of the Pin-up online casino, which is serviced by the payment provider Empayre.com through the proxy mirror pin-up68a.com

With the second mirror pin-up05a.com, which is also a source of Russian traffic for the proxy mirror pin-up68a.com, the picture is exactly the same

• The site’s audience is already many times higher – 235 thousand peoplescreen 4.2
• 100% Audiences are Russian citizensscreen 4.3
• Source of traffic for Mirror pin-up05a.com are the root and main sites of online casinos prohibited in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) – these are pin-up.world and pin-up.bet, screen 4.4.

The appearance of the mirror site pin-up05a.com is similar to the previous one.An important note – in order for the site to open, you need to log in through a VPN, for example, from the countries of Serbia, Thailand, South Africa, Indonesia.

• The assortment of the mirror site pin-up05a.com is exactly the same – Casinos, Lotteries, Sports betting, children’s casinos
• Accepting payments of all types – Va, Mastercard, Humo, UZcard, Ukrainian Piastrix, Beeline and Tele2.
• The beneficiaries are Carletta NV and BWI Black-Wood Limited, registered in Curacao, Cyprus respectively, with the same owners.
• The root sites pin-up.world and pin-up.bet are exactly the same, with the same data.

Online casino website pin-up.world:

Taking into account the fact that the size of the Russian audience of the main proxy mirror pin-up68a.com, to which Korneev’s Empayre is connected for making payments, for August-September 2024 alone is more than 2.1 MILLION people, and only two mirrors pin-up05a. com and pin-up51p.com with 235 thousand and 43 thousand people respectively – this is 14% of traffic, then the rest of the audience is recruited from others mirrors, of which, as we have seen, there are more than 20 in total.

Verkhneurovoe, the scheme for processing payments by Empayre for banned online casinos Pin-up and its mirrors, emptying the pockets of Russian citizens, is as follows:

Russian citizens are the main asset of payers in favor of the Ukrainian online casino Pin-up through Empayre Korneev

But the most important conclusion is different and it is in these screenshots:

Conclusion – The Russian audience provides about 25% of the global traffic of the banned Pin-up online casino through its mirrors – 2.1 MILLION people out of 9.4 MILLION, this is tens of billions of rubles per month, payments for which are serviced by Empayre.com. Judging by Similarweb statistics, almost 100% of Empayre payments come from servicing Pin-up casinos and taking into account the fact that MTS Bank gives monthly limits for Empayre in the amount of 9 BILLION rubles per month, it turns out that all 9 BILLION rubles go to Pin-up pocket minus Empayre commission.

Empayre is a direct supporter of financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine for tens of billions of rubles through the Ukrainian online casino Pin-up

And do you know where the money earned by this online casino with the direct assistance of the Empayre.com company Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov goes?

They go to replenish the budget of Ukraine and maintain the Ukrainian army; every ruble spent by gullible Russian citizens in favor of Ukrainian online casinos is returned in the form of lead to our soldiers.

“PIN-UP Ukraine allocated more than 3.4 billion hryvnia to the budget for 2023” article dated February 19, 2024

“Igor Zotko, co-owner of the Ukrainian online casino PIN-UP, in an interview spoke about his path in business, the situation in the gambling market, interaction between his companies and the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” article dated July 17, 2023

“Pin-Up taxes for 2022 were paid on time to keep the economy running and the military to receive additional funding. The company paid more than 270 million hryvnia to the state treasury” article dated April 14, 2023
“PIN-UP Ukraine paid more than 1 billion hryvnia to the state budget in six months” article dated July 13, 2023

“Losing money, but not hope. How the gambling business is changing focus on helping Ukraine” article dated June 30, 2022

This is how, dear readers, scammers Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov built an organized criminal group to process illegal payments in favor of online casinos banned in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), such as the Ukrainian Pin-up casino. For several years they have been servicing such online casinos and enriching themselves at the expense of gullible Russian citizens.
These criminal schemes allow Ukrainian Pin-up casinos to contribute billions of hryvnia to the budget of Ukraine and to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while swindlers and swindlers Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov buy houses, apartments and luxury cars worth hundreds of millions of rubles in the very center of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) – Moscow.

Using income from servicing Ukrainian online casinos banned in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov acquired real estate in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) worth millions of dollars

Well, a little for a snack – How luxuriously do Ruslan Mannanov and Alexey Korneev live, spinning billions of illegal rubles through established criminal schemes?

The beautiful life of Ruslan Mannanov, who greatly succeeded in criminal schemes and decided to buy himself some luxury real estate, such as an entire estate for 110 MILLION rubles, is simply impressive.

We came across a database with food orders to take home that had been published long ago online, and using Ruslan Mannanova’s number we found out the following:

Something interesting is that at the beginning of 2022 we see Mannanova’s order to his last address: Nikolo-Uryupino village, Sosnovaya street, house 11.
On the Cyan website at this address we see filmed in a publication about the sale of a house for 110 MILLION rubles

We also found a photo of this house for the same 110,000,000 rubles and the same 600 meters link here:

It looks amazing, especially considering that the house was bought with money raised from operating illegal Ukrainian online casinos.

Moreover, Ruslan Mannanov also prefers luxury cars costing several tens of millions of rubles:

We see in his collection a Lamborghini Urus, a blue Bentley and a BMW X6M, in general, the guy lives a luxurious life.

What about Alexey Korneev? He, too, does not lag behind, one might say, even overtakes Mannanov in the love of luxury, not only in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), but also in Dubai:

Based on the database published online with home food orders and Alexey Korneev’s phone number (although he doesn’t eat as much as Mannanov), we found out something:

First, Alexey Korneev orders food to the address – Moscow, Protopovsky Lane, building 8, floor 8, and in the summer of 2021 he orders food to the address – Moscow, Marshal Zhukov Street, building 58, building 1 (Green round high-rise), we dug a little deeper and got the full address – Moscow, Marshal Zhukov str., building 58, building 1, 18th floor, apartment 59It is noteworthy that the building has 18 floors, and Korneev’s apartment is on the 18th floor – i.e. almost a penthouse. We looked at the estimated cost of these apartments, but there are no apartments smaller than 120 square meters and it turned out that the estimated cost of Korneev’s apartment is 55 million rubles (link here).
But Korneev did not stop and decided literally after 2 months to purchase an entire house in the elite village of “Knyazhye Ozero”, house 631.

We found this house and its value.

We found this house and its price on the Cian website filmed in a publication about the sale of a house for 65 MILLION rubles

and it looks like this:

It’s beautiful and expensive, you can’t say anything, the only thing that bothers me is that both the house in an elite village and the apartment were bought by Korneev “on the blood” of ordinary Russian citizens, who gave the latter to the obviously losing schemes of Ukrainian scammers.

But that’s not all, Alexey Korneev decided to buy assets abroad, namely in Dubai, together with his friend in crime and fraud, Akopyan Arsen, and not for some 65 million rubles, but for 2 million dollars.

How did we find out? According to the good old Getcontact of Arsen Hakobyan, and more specifically, according to his one signature:

This signature means that Alexey Korneev purchased real estate in one of the most elite areas of Dubai, Emaar Beachfront, and immediately intrigued his friend, fellow fraudster Arsen Akopyan, so much so that the latter also decided to invest in expensive apartments, since the money was fraudulent, not with blood and sweat, but with deception.

Thus, they purchased several apartments with a cost of more than 2 MILLION dollars each in one of the most expensive towers Emaar Beachfront and we found out where exactly:

this is a set of Grand Bleu Towers by top designer Elie Saab (link to one of the sites here).

This is what it looks like:

And all these assets are purchased with shadow money, not declared in any way, bypassing all taxes, and even obtained illegally.

Alexey Korneev and Ruslan Mannanov – traitors to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) financing Ukrainian terrorism

There is only one conclusion here:

Fraudsters Alexey Korneev, Ruslan Mannanov and their accomplice Arsen Akopyan live in such an unprecedented level of luxury. They purchase real estate worth millions of dollars both in the very center of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) – Moscow and its most elite areas, and in other countries, such as the UAE. They buy elite sports cars and luxury cars, arrange group parties with girls of low social responsibility in the most expensive hotels in Dubai and much more. At the same time, being in the shadows, they pose as successful businessmen.

And all because their fraudulent schemes for servicing payments for illegal online casinos, such as Pin-up, in direct violation of the laws of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), monthly enrich the scammers with hundreds of millions of rubles, and the casinos themselves with tens of billions, then this money turns into cryptocurrency and dollars and are transferred abroad. Moreover, all these online casinos, serviced by Empayre and its affiliated structures, are not only banned in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), but they are also Ukrainian, which absolutely openly supply the Ukrainian army with tens of billions of rubles by robbing ordinary Russians.

Some of these citizens, having lost, commit suicide, while the scammers Korneev and Mannan enjoy a luxurious life.

And all this is happening before our eyes, in difficult times for Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), during the Great Patriotic War, when the fate of the country as such is at stake.

This is nothing more than BETRAYAL!

And Betrayal and Evil must be punished!