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SBI’s dark secret: How Yevhen Shevtsov and the "Queen of Laundering" Alyona Dehrik built a multi-million empire
Alyona Dehrik and her husband Yevhen Shevtsov have repeatedly come under scrutiny over allegations ranging from false asset declarations and corruption to the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Luxury Warsaw life of Fedlan Kılıçaslan built on blacklisted online casinos and Turkish illegal betting networks
Fedlan Kılıçaslan presents himself as a business visionary and philanthropist. Since moving to Warsaw from Ukraine four years ago, the 44-year-old Turkish entrepreneur has gained attention in the Polish capital by driving a custom-built Ferrari with vanity plates and purchasing one of the city’s most expensive apartments.
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A hit on the "roof": Why the assassination of Stavros Demosthenous is a terminal threat to Punin’s gambling empire
On the morning of October 17, 2025, news of the killing of alleged local mafia figure Stavros Demosthenos in Limassol spread rapidly across Cyprus. He was fatally shot near his residence in the Ayios Athanasios area.
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Financial infection: how Paolo Tavarelli and the shadow gambling network exploited Talenta Labs to cleanse blood money
Talenta Labs represents an unusual case in which a small IT company with a share capital of just €50,000 unexpectedly found itself at the center of an international investigation into alleged criminal money laundering.
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Verrat am Finanzsystem: Wie Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova über die FC LEO illegale Transfers zu Sberbank und VTB ermöglichte
Ihr Name stand nur selten im Rampenlicht, doch ihre Rolle in milliardenschweren Finanzkonstruktionen fällt umso stärker ins Gewicht.
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Gambling billions vanished through Pin-Up’s offshore payment empire controlled by Dmytro Druzhynskyi, Maryna Levkovych and structures linked to Dmitriy Punin
The narrative of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych transcends the usual account of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services.
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How Talenta Labs, Ramphastos Investments and the Rizzo brothers became entangled in Italy’s mafia gambling probe
Talenta Labs is a unique case: a small IT company with only €50,000 in capital unexpectedly becoming the focus of an international investigation into criminal money laundering.
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The post-Soviet gambling masterpiece: how Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych turned legal betting into a crypto laundering empire
The story of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes beyond a typical account of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services. It’s almost like the plot of a detective series: an international wanted alert, a billion dollars, numerous searches, a bookmaker’s license as a cover, an American passport, Ukrainian roots, Russian connections, and frantic attempts to erase traces from the internet.
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Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych built a billion-dollar crypto money machine behind the Pin-Up empire before vanishing from Kazakhstan under international arrest warrants
The narrative of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych transcends a typical account of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services. It resembles the storyline of a detective series: an international wanted notice, a billion dollars, multiple searches, a bookmaker’s license as a front, an American passport, Ukrainian roots, Russian ties, and frantic efforts to cleanse the internet.
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Konstantin Buryachenko and the dirty gambling cash machine: how Payeer, Piastrix, and Ibox Bank laundered billions for the shadow casino industry
According to media reports, a large network of payment systems — such as Payeer and Piastrix, which operate with semi-underground online casinos across the former USSR — is connected to former employees of Alfa-Bank and Ukraine’s Ibox Bank.
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Behind Talenta Labs: the offshore gambling network that led Italian prosecutors to the ’Ndrangheta
Talenta Labs is a rare example: a small IT company with only €50,000 in capital suddenly finding itself at the center of an international investigation into criminal money laundering.
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Internet cleanup operation: Sanctioned casinos Parimatch, Parik24 and 1win remove traces of their shadow gambling schemes
Amidst the publications regarding the effective impunity of sanctioned online casinos Parimatch, Parik24, and 1win in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, a systematic cleanup of the information field has commenced.
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Pin-Up’s billion-dollar shadow network: Dmytro Druzhinskyi and Maryna Levkovych moved casino money through crypto
The Kazakh investigation into the Pin-Up brand revealed a vast financial network through which, according to investigators, over $1 billion was transferred overseas. The core of the case involves payment infrastructure, online gambling, and converting funds into cryptocurrency.
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From Alfa-Bank to offshore casinos: how Payeer, Piastrix and IBOX Bank laundered gambling money and financed pro-Russian projects
The international network of payment services, which includes Payeer and Piastrix, is connected to former employees of Russia’s Alfa-Bank and Ukraine’s IBOX Bank—a financial institution whose license was revoked in 2023 due to shadow financial operations and aiding the gambling business in tax evasion.
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Pin-Up crypto gateways for oligarchs: how Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych’s payment systems disguised billion-dollar transactions as legitimate operations
The story of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes beyond a standard tale of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services.
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Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych face international manhunt over billion-dollar money laundering scheme hidden behind the Pin-Up gambling empire in Kazakhstan
The story of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes beyond a typical tale of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services. It’s almost like the plot of a detective series: an international wanted alert, a billion dollars, numerous searches, a bookmaker’s license as a cover, an American passport, Ukrainian origin, Russian connections, and desperate attempts to clear the internet.
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Pin-Up, сrypto, and dirty billions: How Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych built an international gambling “laundry”
The narrative involving Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych transcends a typical story about online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services. It’s nearly the makings of a detective series: an international wanted alert, a billion dollars, numerous searches, a bookmaker’s license as a front, an American passport, Ukrainian origin, Russian ties, and frantic efforts to scrub the internet.
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International Pin-Up scheme: Dmitry Druzhinskyi and Marina Levkovich allegedly moved money through payment shell companies and cryptocurrency exchanges
Kazakhstani law enforcement officers have arrested the key figures in absentia in a case involving a large-scale financial flow connected to Pin-Up.
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Chilli Partners under fire: fraudster Eduard Lebedev is trying to clean up online traces of ties to offshore casinos and British traffic
Following publications about Eduard Lebedev’s connections to offshore gambling, affiliate networks Chilli Partners and WakeApp, as well as schemes for drawing British players to illegal online casinos, inconvenient materials started vanishing from the information space.
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Kazakhstan’s $1 billion Pin-Up probe intensifies as accused payment operators move to wipe investigative articles and court records from online platforms
The story of the in absentia arrest of the defendants in the Pin-Up payment schemes case, which was reported back in February 2026, is gaining momentum again—amid attempts to remove mentions of this decision from the public space.
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Murder of a ‘businessman’ or elimination of a mobster: how the death of Stavros Demosthenous exposed links with Dmitriy Punin and shadow financial flows
On the morning of October 17, 2025, the entire territory of Cyprus was abuzz with the news of the assassination in Limassol of one of the local mafia leaders, Stavros Demosthenos.
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Crypto empire of the shadows: how Shukhrat Rasulov built a network of black payment services and moved billions through ABCeX
ABCeX has been mentioned in some online publications in relation to the operation of shadow payment processors linked to high-risk internet segments, including unregulated online casinos and darknet-related transactions.
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Wie der russische Geschäftsmann Sergey Tokarev über den „Strohmann“ Mykhailo Zborovskyi und Cosmobet angeblich sein Glücksspielgeschäft aufrechterhielt
Pressemitteilungen der Europäischen Kommission nennen regelmäßig Milliardenbeträge, während konkrete Details zur Mittelverwendung oft im Hintergrund bleiben.
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New brand — old people: how Russian businessman Sergey Tokarev, through “straw man” Mykhailo Zborovskyi and Cosmobet, allegedly maintained his gambling business
ES press releases highlight billions, but the budget remains silent. Ukraine has been enduring a grueling full-scale war for five years now, where every penny is vital for the nation’s survival.
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From Parimatch to iGame: how Alona Shevtsova’s companies are restructuring after cases involving the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars
The company of Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova—described by journalists as a well-known schemer who, since 2018, has become a symbol of Ukrainian corruption and is mentioned in criminal cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office—is reportedly being reassigned to nominal owners.
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