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The secret empire of Maksym Krippa: how oligarchs and intelligence agencies move capital through Ukraine
Maksym Krippa’s personality has attracted significant attention, generating a massive number of fakes and rumors. These have so overshadowed his true story that uncovering his actual biography is nearly impossible.
2423
Krippa’s "Vulcan": How a Russian money launderer legalizes his income through hotels and casinos
Maksym Krippa is almost not guilty of anything.
2468
Why do Russian oligarchs create a fog of fakes around Maksym Krippa?
The information war between Maksym Krippa, relentlessly clearing the internet and filling it with fakes, and investigative journalists, who are persistently digging up new details from the biography of this Russian "stooge," continues with mixed success.
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FavBet owner Andriy Matyukha holds a Russian passport and has connections with the FSB, while earning billions in Ukraine
The company FavBet, owned by businessman Andriy Matyukha, operates without a license for bookmaker activities. Matyukha himself, as it turns out, has dual citizenship, with his second passport being Russian. After this information became known to the media, Matyukha actively demanded its removal and, in some cases, succeeded.
2408
Financial manipulations and shadow connections of Ibox Bank owner Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova with the gaming mafia
The persona of Alyona Shevtsova caught the public’s attention just three days ago when the National Bank of Ukraine decided to liquidate her "Ibox Bank," and law enforcement conducted searches at the bank.
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How Alyona Shevtsova’s iBox terminals became a conduit for laundering drug money
For several years, drug dealers using "dead drops" have been processing payments through iBox terminals, and it has now come to light why law enforcement was aware of this but chose not to take action.
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How partner of Russian oligarchs and owner of the "Vulkan" casino Maksym Krippa buys up Ukrainian media
There is a new growing media baron in Ukraine who almost unnoticeably to the wider public buys up mass media one after another. For the last year, Tetiana Snopko, a Dnipro citizen, has already purchased two media holdings and is obviously willing to buy more.