The SBI served notifications of suspicions to beneficiaries and online casino management of the aiding the aggressor state

The employees of the SBI served notifications of suspicions to the beneficial owners and top managers of the online casino of laundering russian money.

As part of the investigation into the activities of the commercial structure that had been licensed to organize gambling on the Internet, in cooperation with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, the facts of complicity of its representatives to the aggressor state were revealed.

In particular, the connections of this online casino with representatives of the russian federation and russian capital, as well as with sanctioned entities in Ukraine, have been documented. The business was also operated under the cover of the entities that are under the jurisdiction of the State Bureau of Investigation.

The employees of the SBI carried out a large range of procedural measures, including technical ones, with the involvement of relevant experts, who confirmed the negative consequences for the combat capability of the Defense Forces of Ukraine because of the use of the services of the online casino.

Within the framework of the investigation, it was established that persons related to the activities of the online casinos conduct their business activities in the territory of the so-called "luhansk people's republic" thus filling the budget of the aggressor state. They are financing the power bloc, the military-industrial complex of the russian federation, as well as the armed aggression against Ukraine.

In addition, the person who directly controls the activities of the online casinos, after the start of the full-scale invasion, financed veterans of the so-called "special military operation". It is the online casino that continues to operate in russia and russian web resources.

On the basis of the collected evidence, notifications of suspicions under Article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were served to the actual beneficial owners of the online casino on the facts of aiding the aggressor state, as well as the persons associated with its activities, in particular the director and owner of the trademark and domain name.

Currently, the State Bureau of Investigation, together with other authorized bodies, are taking measures to recover the seized assets and transfer them to the state revenue in accordance with the norms of sanctions legislation.

The court has satisfied the request of the SBI and the Office of the Prosecutor General about the transfer to the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) more than UAH 2.6 billion (this is the total amount of arrested funds, including account profitable financial transactions) that were seized from the accounts of the online-casino that is associated with representatives of the aggressor state.

At the same time, the defendants even made illegal and unsuccessful attempts to lift arrests from the assets transferred to ARMA.

By the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated November 05, 2024 No. 1088-p, the purchase of the bonds of the domestic state loan " Military Bonds" by ARMA was approved. It should be made at the expense of the funds mentioned above, in the amount of UAH 2 billion. Moreover it has to be noted that those bonds have already been working to support our defense capability and economy.

Procedural guidance is provided by the Office of the Prosecutor General.