Ibox Bank of Alena Degrik-Shevtsova “laundered” almost 5 billion hryvnia by an underground online casino
The security service, together with the BEB, exposed a large-scale scheme in Kyiv for the illegal laundering of money received by the shadow gambling business. A year after the start of a full-scale conflict, the attackers “laundered” almost 5 billion hryvnia. According to law enforcement sources, we are talking about IBOX BANK.
About it informs in Telegram SBU.
According to the investigation, the owners and top management of one of the commercial banks in Kyiv were involved in organizing the transaction. To implement the criminal scheme, they created more than 20 controlled companies that opened accounts in the specified financial institution.
Players of underground online casinos used the details of these companies to deposit money to replenish their accounts. At the same time, the “purpose” of the payment indicated payment for non-existent goods and services. From each transaction, the organizers of the transaction had their own “interest”, which they cashed out through affiliated commercial structures.
Based on the collected evidence, three bank officials, one of whom is its co-owner, were informed of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 2 Art. 203-2 (illegal activities of organizing or conducting gambling, lotteries);
- Part 3 Art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime).
The issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided. The investigation continues to establish all the circumstances of the crime. The sanction of the article provides for punishment of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Let us recall that in March 2023, the National Bank revoked the license of a financial institution controlled by the defendants. Comprehensive activities were carried out in cooperation with the National Bank, the State Tax Service and the State Financial Monitoring Service under the procedural leadership of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
As reported, earlier the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Tax and Customs Policy, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, announced the involvement of IBOX BANK and Ukrgasbank in schemes for the gambling business to bring about 10 billion hryvnias of turnover per month into the shadows. The very next day after this statement, the head of Ukrgasbank, Andrey Kravets, wrote a letter of resignation from his position at his own request, allegedly due to deteriorating health, and the National Bank fined the state-owned Ukrgasbank 64.62 million.
Let us remind you: the shareholders of IBOX BANK are Vladimir Drobot (73.92% of shares) and Alena Shevtsova (Degric) (24.98% of shares).
As you know, Alena Shevtsova’s name is associated with a series of criminal scandals surrounding illegal gaming, tax evasion and money laundering on an especially large scale. Experts point out that Ukraine has, in a short period of time, become the “capital” of illegal gaming throughout the entire post-Soviet space.
Alena Shevtsova (previous last name – Degrik) is a notorious participant in the payments market, beneficiary and head of the Leogaming Pay PS. Her financial partners by 2021 are investment banker Vadim Gordievsky (9%) and US citizens Viktor Kapustin (9%) and Yuri Kaplun (20.5%).
“IBOX BANK” is headed in key positions by people who previously worked with the Shevtsovs. For example, Svetlana Garmash, a member of the bank’s board of directors, is the treasurer at Ibox and controls payments for the gaming business, and previously worked at FC Leogaming LLC. One of the heads of the bank’s security service, Alexander Lukashenko, who until 2019 headed the department of supervision over the implementation of NPU laws.
Her husband, Evgeny Shevtsov, is officially the richest police officer. Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police. In his declaration for 2020, in the “Income” section, he reported that his family earned more than 90 million hryvnia last year, and in the “Monetary assets” section, the total amount was another 94 million hryvnia.
Thus, Evgeny Shevtsov’s own income is indicated in the declaration in an amount quite decent for his position – 412 thousand hryvnia per year. The wife seems to have earned everything else for the family.
Alena Shevtsova’s impunity until 2020 is explained precisely by the official position of her new husband, who literally launched a war against journalists and public activists who exposed his wife for dirty deals.
The scale of this criminal business is such that at various times, gaming was “protected” by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, and later Denis Monastyrsky preferred “not to notice”; today this is done by Minister Igor Klimenko, who is well aware of which of his colleagues from the National Police exercises operational control over the criminal syndicate.
The international mafia structure (with centers in Kiev and Moscow), which is involved in this criminal process, is literally destroying the State of Ukraine, since the very existence of this transnational criminal organization is impossible without corruption of state institutions – the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, and possibly officials persons Office of the President.
It is noteworthy that today criminal gaming in Ukraine is carried out by structures from the orbit of Igor Kolomoisky, the main beneficiary of the “Zelensky team” coming to power. Which only imitates the fight against Kolomoisky’s organized crime group, himself and his criminal structures.
Law enforcement agencies, which must fight illegal gaming, also imitate activities in this area.
The security service, together with the BEB, exposed a large-scale scheme in Kyiv for the illegal laundering of money received by the shadow gambling business. A year after the start of a full-scale conflict, the attackers “laundered” almost 5 billion hryvnia. According to law enforcement sources, we are talking about IBOX BANK.
About it informs in Telegram SBU.
According to the investigation, the owners and top management of one of the commercial banks in Kyiv were involved in organizing the transaction. To implement the criminal scheme, they created more than 20 controlled companies that opened accounts in the specified financial institution.
Players of underground online casinos used the details of these companies to deposit money to replenish their accounts. At the same time, the “purpose” of the payment indicated payment for non-existent goods and services. From each transaction, the organizers of the transaction had their own “interest”, which they cashed out through affiliated commercial structures.
Based on the collected evidence, three bank officials, one of whom is its co-owner, were informed of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 2 Art. 203-2 (illegal activities of organizing or conducting gambling, lotteries);
- Part 3 Art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime).
The issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided. The investigation continues to establish all the circumstances of the crime. The sanction of the article provides for punishment of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Let us recall that in March 2023, the National Bank revoked the license of a financial institution controlled by the defendants. Comprehensive activities were carried out in cooperation with the National Bank, the State Tax Service and the State Financial Monitoring Service under the procedural leadership of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
As reported, earlier the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Tax and Customs Policy, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, announced the involvement of IBOX BANK and Ukrgasbank in schemes for the gambling business to bring about 10 billion hryvnias of turnover per month into the shadows. The very next day after this statement, the head of Ukrgasbank, Andrey Kravets, wrote a letter of resignation from his position at his own request, allegedly due to deteriorating health, and the National Bank fined the state-owned Ukrgasbank 64.62 million.
Let us remind you: the shareholders of IBOX BANK are Vladimir Drobot (73.92% of shares) and Alena Shevtsova (Degric) (24.98% of shares).
As you know, Alena Shevtsova’s name is associated with a series of criminal scandals surrounding illegal gaming, tax evasion and money laundering on an especially large scale. Experts point out that Ukraine has, in a short period of time, become the “capital” of illegal gaming throughout the entire post-Soviet space.
Alena Shevtsova (previous last name – Degrik) is a notorious participant in the payments market, beneficiary and head of the Leogaming Pay PS. Her financial partners by 2021 are investment banker Vadim Gordievsky (9%) and US citizens Viktor Kapustin (9%) and Yuri Kaplun (20.5%).
“IBOX BANK” is headed in key positions by people who previously worked with the Shevtsovs. For example, Svetlana Garmash, a member of the bank’s board of directors, is the treasurer at Ibox and controls payments for the gaming business, and previously worked at FC Leogaming LLC. One of the heads of the bank’s security service, Alexander Lukashenko, who until 2019 headed the department of supervision over the implementation of NPU laws.
Her husband, Evgeny Shevtsov, is officially the richest police officer. Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police. In his declaration for 2020, in the “Income” section, he reported that his family earned more than 90 million hryvnia last year, and in the “Monetary assets” section, the total amount was another 94 million hryvnia.
Thus, Evgeny Shevtsov’s own income is indicated in the declaration in an amount quite decent for his position – 412 thousand hryvnia per year. The wife seems to have earned everything else for the family.
Alena Shevtsova’s impunity until 2020 is explained precisely by the official position of her new husband, who literally launched a war against journalists and public activists who exposed his wife for dirty deals.
The scale of this criminal business is such that at various times, gaming was “protected” by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, and later Denis Monastyrsky preferred “not to notice”; today this is done by Minister Igor Klimenko, who is well aware of which of his colleagues from the National Police exercises operational control over the criminal syndicate.
The international mafia structure (with centers in Kiev and Moscow), which is involved in this criminal process, is literally destroying the State of Ukraine, since the very existence of this transnational criminal organization is impossible without corruption of state institutions – the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, and possibly officials persons Office of the President.
It is noteworthy that today criminal gaming in Ukraine is carried out by structures from the orbit of Igor Kolomoisky, the main beneficiary of the “Zelensky team” coming to power. Which only imitates the fight against Kolomoisky’s organized crime group, himself and his criminal structures.
Law enforcement agencies, which must fight illegal gaming, also imitate activities in this area.