A network of online casinos with a turnover of billions of hryvnias has been uncovered in Ukraine
The Office of the Prosecutor General has uncovered a large-scale criminal organization that operated a network of illegal gambling platforms generating billions in profits.
The organizers of the scheme turned out to be Russian citizens who used IT companies under their control to operate at least five gambling websites.
Some of these online casinos had previously operated within the legal framework, but after their licenses were revoked, the perpetrators did not cease their activities.
They created mirror sites under the same brands and continued to accept bets from Ukrainian users in violation of the law.
To conceal financial flows, the organizers used payments exclusively in cryptocurrency, specifically in USDT stablecoins.
Players transferred funds directly to the operators’ digital wallets, which allowed them to avoid bank monitoring and taxation.
The subsequent laundering of dirty money took place through a complex chain of international transactions.
First, the assets were accumulated in the accounts of a fictitious company in Estonia, after which they were transferred to controlled offshore companies in various jurisdictions around the world.
According to the investigation, the total amount of laundered funds exceeds the equivalent of 5 billion hryvnias.
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