The largest special confiscation in history: based on the materials of the SBI, the court has seized into state revenue UAH 2.6 billion from online casino Pin-Up and over UAH 200 million that was obtained from the management of seized funds

The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv applied a special confiscation, seizing UAH 2.6 billion from a company, operating in Ukraine under the brand of the online casino «Pin-Up».

This decision was made due to the materials of the SBI investigation in cooperation with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine.

The court also approved the agreement between the prosecutor and the accused - the director of the online casino «Pin-Up».

He was sentenced to five years with a three-year suspended sentence for conducting business activities in cooperation with the aggressor state (Part 4 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), participation in a criminal organization (Part 3 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); intentional tax evasion in especially large amounts (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); legalization of property obtained by criminal ways (Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and forgery (Part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

As part of the investigation into the activities of this online casino, the Bureau in cooperation with prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General revealed facts of aiding and abetting of the company's representatives to the aggressor state.

In particular, the SBI documented the online casino's ties with representatives of the russian federation and entities sanctioned in Ukraine, as well as established financial flows to fill the aggressor's budget and support activities related to armed aggression against Ukraine.

The employees of the State Bureau of Investigation conducted a set 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 caused by the use of the services of this online casino.

The investigation also established that the persons associated with the online casino conduct their business activities on the territory of the so-called «Luhansk People's Republic», thus filling the enemy's budget.

In addition, the person, who directly controls the activities of the online casino, after the start of the full-scale invasion, financed the veterans of the so-called «special military operation».

It was established by the SBI during the pre-trial investigation, that online casino continues its activities on the territory of russian federation and russian web resources.

Preliminary, within the framework of the proceeding, based on the collected evidence, the Chairman and a member of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries were served notifications of suspicion on the facts of aiding the aggressor state and illegal possession of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues without the purpose of sale, as well as on the facts of aiding the aggressor state.

The owners of the online casinos were also served notifications of suspicion.

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