The struggle for financial flows of the gaming industry in Ukraine does not subside: Alena Degrik-Shevtsova against Sosis
While in Ukraine there is a full-scale conflict with the Russian Federation, in Kyiv there is its own “war” for the distribution of financial flows from the gaming industry. Alena Degrik-Shevtsova vs. Sosis: has the fight reached a new level? What is going on?
Last year, with the start of a special military operation, all the local schemers became discouraged and lay low, wondering what to do next. If you paid attention, then the scammers even stopped calling the phones of Ukrainians. In other words, even fraudulent call centers stopped working.
But this calm did not last long. When it became clear that no one had captured Ukraine “in three days”, and the country continues to live on, and will obviously prosper after its victory over the enemy, the hidden schemers “revived” as well. And the struggle for financial flows in the gaming industry has reached a new level of absurdity in the division of money for gamers.
So, at the end of June last year, a very scandalous material was published on the Luxembourg Herald website under the title “Ukraine must close Firtash’s bank, from which hundreds of millions of euros were stolen“.
Literally in a day, this article was translated and snapped up by Ukrainian media of various levels, ranging from serious media to all sorts of information dumps. The resonant material dealt with the Ukrainian bank “Alliance”, which is allegedly on the verge of collapse due to major frauds of the management and the beneficiary of this credit institution. Moreover, the anonymous author of the article accuses the infamous oligarch Dmitry Firtash of large-scale fraud, who distilled simply astronomical amounts of money through the accounts of this bank.
It is noteworthy that the management of the mentioned bank categorically refuted what was written in the material of the Luxembourg Herald, but there is a nuance. Not all published information has been refuted.
It is worth noting that the aforementioned foreign site among Ukrainian journalists is mentioned as a fake information resource, with the help of which “rotten” compromising evidence has been repeatedly thrown into the information field. But at the same time, the representative of the bank “Alliance” Y. Frolova also keeps silent, insisting that the article is complete nonsense. Everyone is probably wondering why?
The scandalous article clearly states that the clearing bank, as well as the issuer of electronic money of the GlobalMoney payment system, which regularly pops up in criminal proceedings, is precisely the same Alliance.
In the unified judicial register, GlobalMoney is in most cases mentioned in connection with illegal drug trafficking, and pushers actively use the electronic wallets of this payment system. By the way, we are talking about a huge number of litigations – over 11 thousand …
The material also mentions that the terminals of this payment system could enjoy and pro-Russian terrorists in order to carry out repeated financial transactions on the territory of ORDLO.
Actors in the “war” for the financial flows of the gaming industry in Ukraine
So, the batch here is planned to be non-childish. Many are fighting for appetizing financial flows. We are talking about “family” matters, in addition, there is a shadow of the criminal authority and accomplice of the Russians, Yura Enakievsky. Let’s figure it out.
1. Bank “Alliance” – originally from Donetsk. The same Yura Enakievsky (Yuri Ivanyushchenko) is directly connected with him – an ally of the fugitive “legitimate”.
The bank is known for a huge pile of court cases (about 11.5 thousand court documents in the Unified Register, as can be seen from the scan above), financial fraud for many billions, as well as money laundering. Depositors massively could not return their own deposits, rumors of bankruptcy. Scandals just go wild…
In general, there is a lot of information about this in the public domain, so we will not delve into it.
In 2015, Alexander Sosis became the new owner and beneficiary of the bank.
The GPU is sure that in 2017-2018 this bank was the tool of Firtash’s companies for large-scale theft from Naftogaz in the amount of at least 4 billion.
2. GlobalMoney. At the end of 2020, law enforcement officers accused this payment office of money laundering in conjunction with Alliance Bank. Moreover, it was also about Donbass and Crimea not controlled by Ukraine.
As many media have already written earlier, GlobalMoney is indeed involved in the financing of Russian terrorists in the Donbass.
And also, as mentioned above, these two scandalous organizations are involved in the criminal activities of drug dealers. In particular, through the bank “Alliance” transactions were repeatedly carried out to pay for drugs. The media has all this information.
But that’s not all. The National Police of Ukraine exposed the Alliance Bank and GlobalMoney in a powerful scheme. As it turned out, these two offices for the period from 2019 to 2020 brought 6.5 billion hryvnias to Russia …
If we talk about those who are associated with the GlobalMoney payment system, then, in fact, a lot of very scandalous characters are involved here:
– Oleksandr Tyutyun, one of the co-founders, either Ukrainian or Israeli;
– Sergey Gvardeytsev, Belarusian IT businessman;
– Sergey Dyadechko, ex-vice-president of Rodovid Bank;
– Ivan Avramov, business partner of Yura Enakievsky;
– Alexander Dubikhvost and Varvara Shults, shareholders of Parfait;
– Yuriy Kolobov, a member of the group known as the “Yanukovych Family” (V. Schultz is Kolobov’s mother, A. Dubikhvost is a godfather);
– Vladimir Karpov and Konstantin Tveritin are the owners of GlobalMoney LLC as of July 2022 (now only Karpov is the owner and beneficiary).
And this is far from the whole list… We will not delve into all the resonant and compromising nuances now, since investigative journalists have repeatedly written about this. Read more about how all these characters are tied into this scandalous topic, read on link.
The key thing in all this is that the gambling market has become extremely crowded for all these personnel and not only for them. And the events that are taking place around these two offices, namely the Alliance Bank and the GlobalMoney payment system, are a vivid example of this.
3. And who is the key competitor of all this aforementioned brethren?
It’s really interesting, who, in addition to the already mentioned “heroes”, is still eager to get a big jackpot from the gaming industry? According to independent media, the fierce competitor of these characters is the founder of the Leogaming Pay financial company, as well as the international payment system LEO. Alena Shevtsova.
As a number of media wrote, this young lady is waging an information war against the Alliance and GlobalMoney.
Degrik-Shevtsova created her office “Leogaming Pay” back in 2013. Over the years, her business gradually developed, but at the same time it also acquired scandalous fame. In particular, we are talking about criminal proceedings.
As the media wrote, during 2016 to 2020, she and her husband, as well as business partners Viktor Kapustin and Vadim Gordievsky, managed a dozen companies, most of which were among those involved in criminal proceedings. The topics of litigation, that is, the articles of the Criminal Code are as follows: fraud, money laundering, as well as fictitious business.
Further – more: Shevtsova has a pocket “Ibox” bank, and later – a network of payment terminals “iBox”. By the way, we think it makes no sense to remind about recent scandals and financial fines of ibox… Again, there is a lot of information in the public domain.
Scandals have been spinning in the information field for years. According to foreign media, the cash flows of Ukrainian gamers regularly go to the accounts of Russian illegal online casinos through Ms. Shevtsova’s Ibox Bank.
As a result, the gaming zone is now simply overwhelmed, and the “light” to the topic is added by the information that the popular Forbes publication writes that Shevtsova has brought her “IBOX BANK” to the top ten most profitable banks. Only here there is one important nuance here – this pretentious material was custom-made …
The struggle for financial flows of the gaming industry in Ukraine does not subside: Alena Degrik-Shevtsova against hzikhidtidekrt Sosis
To be continued.
