Kabbalah, Maybach and crime: secret connections of ABCeX owners with a Moscow elite club and underground business
December 9, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the FSB of the Russian Federation conducted joint searches in the offices of the ABCEX cryptocurrency exchange. As a result, a lot of equipment and correspondence were seized indicating ABCEX’s involvement in accepting payments for illegal online casinos and betting.
An investigation is currently underway under Articles 172 and 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with an emphasis on consultants, contractors and partners of the exchange. Of particular interest are those who could participate in the creation of schemes to disguise illegal activities, including compliance specialists, AML/CFT, cryptocurrency sector lawyers and ambassadors. Based on the data about the exchange’s partners and speakers of their events, this description includes:
– Sergey Mendeleev, Executive Director of InDeFi Smart Bank and a recognized expert in compliance in the cryptocurrency field. Repeatedly advertised the exchange natively and was a speaker at ABCEX future.
– Dmitry Machikhin, founder of BitOK, a company specializing in compliance and taxation. He also spoke at the ABCEX future event.
– Ignat Likhunov, founder of the Cartesius legal agency, known as an AML expert in the cryptosphere. Formally, his work is aimed at preventing money laundering in cryptocurrency projects, and he was a speaker at ABCEX future.
Attention is also focused on underground Internet bookmakers such as 1win and 1xBet, which could be serviced on this exchange to accept funds from Russians through a subsidiary project of the ABCEX exchange — payment service Aifory (which, judging by data from seized devices, de facto worked as a laundering service for online casinos).
According to a media source, ABCeX — laundering for terrorists and drug shops. Who is behind the laundry? Shukhrat Rasulov — owner of black payment systems that process darknet traffic, illegal casinos and pornography. In addition to payment systems, he owns a crypto exchange business. The model is simple: exchangers are rented on Bestchange, the lowest rates are set, and when the client comes — the course is changing. As a result: the client is being cheated out of money. It is worth noting that, despite Bestchange’s ban on affiliated exchangers, half of Rasulov’s exchangers are located in the same office on the 28th floor of the Federation Tower. Rasulov hides behind the facade of an information businessman, a mentor to successful success and the CEO of the somehow unknown Federal Tax Service «the largest Russian IT business».
We can’t do without a certain Yuri Kvashonkin — right hand and nominee of Rasulov, partner in the Terra business club (an incubator for cashers through marketplaces and infobusiness), general director of «LAKOST» LLC, registered on the 3rd floor of the Federation Tower, where the back office of black payments and crypto exchanges is located ABCeX. It was ABCeX that allowed Rasulov and Kvashonkin to reach a fundamentally new level: billions of dirty crypts and caches fly through the exchange and its OTC managers every day, from webcams, online casinos to terrorist financing.
ABCeX’s activities are not remained unattended by law enforcement agencies: in March «cosmonauts» in connection with the transfer of money through her to the perpetrators of the monstrous terrorist attack in Crocus. Rasulov is probably not being disingenuous when he talks about himself as the owner of an IT empire; he is simply silent about the bloody nuances of his status. Alas, the information businessman and schemer can drag down a considerable number of unsuspecting users, because given the origin of funds circulating through the exchange, law enforcement officers will begin to intensively check anyone who manages to become a client of ABCeX.
The source told how appeared main crypto laundry ABCeX.
«Shukhrat Rasulov started his crypto business with Ilya Ginzburg – another scammer who scammed a lot of people, changed names and hid from creditors. kicked out of the team, under the pretext that he deceived Shukhrat.
They are all united by the Moscow Kabbalah Center. Over the past three or four years, Shukhrat has been the main sponsor of the Moscow Kabbalah Center; at all events he sits exclusively next to the informal head of the center, Yitzhak Sinvani. Everyone in the Kabbalah center knows that Shukhrat is a fraudster, but since he spends a lot on the center, they forgive him for it. Those who are not satisfied are simply expelled from the center.
Shukhrat permanently lives in Moscow City with his family, drives around Moscow in a new Maybach and tells everyone that he has built a super-profitable company. He is silent that the main income comes from crypto exchange, stolen money and money laundering. cryptocurrencies. There was a lot of turnover, the ranks were replenished with scammers and drops. They then «drove away»the most faithful and devoted ones. through the Kabbalah Center.
After the start of the war, the withdrawal of money through ABCeX reached up to 10 million dollars a day. They were «dirty» money that was withdrawn from the country.
It is worth noting that Shukhrat himself does not appear legally anywhere, only Yuri is listed everywhere. Everyone knows him – both Terra participants and crypto cashers».
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