US launched an investigation of the illegal activities of GlobalMoney LLC and Wargaming LLC and their management
The Ukrainian GlobalMoney payment system (the operator of the Global24 electronic system) and its real owner Vyacheslav Strelkovsky will soon be sanctioned by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine.
This information was published by the Ukrainian media. In
addition to such things as tax evasion, dirty money laundering, and possible
financing of terrorists of the self-proclaimed LDPR, journalists were able to
find true facts about the odious shadow owners and beneficiaries of
GlobalMoney, who are affiliated with the “family” of the ex-President of
Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian mafia, and the largest conversion
centers of Ukraine.
It is worth noting that US law enforcement agencies and
American journalists drew attention to the illegal activities of the
GlobalMoney payment system.
At the very same time, Ukrainian journalists used open
registers of information to highlight the fact that the Innovative Technologies
venture corporate investment fund became another co-owner of the GlobalMoney
payment system with a contribution of UAH 15 million made in 2017. Since 2011,
or maybe even earlier, Ivan Avramov was the president and head of the
supervisory board of this fund. It is worth noting that he is officially known
as the “right hand” and the closest business partner of the Ukrainian criminal
kingpin Yuri Ivanyushchenko.
“Ivanyushchenko and Abramov are real criminal kingpins with
their own status in the criminal world. In order to solve their problems, they
hired bandit groups, which would use anything, and break virtually any law to
reach their goals. Ivanyushchenko and Avramov
were the symbols of the bandit economy of Yanukovych. Ivanyushchenko was
sanctioned by the EU, and he is also wanted in Ukraine. At the same time,
Avramov is not wanted. He is not persecuted these days,” said the
editor-in-chief of the largest Ukrainian media called Censor.NET, Yuri Butusov.
The GlobalMoney payment system has come to the attention of
law enforcement agencies many times.
In December 2020, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies
discovered that GlobalMoney was involved in an illegal tax evasion scheme with
the help of the Allo stores. Criminal proceedings have been opened against
GlobalMoney. The company itself, the Allo chain, GlobalMoney, and other
companies are suspected of creating a fraudulent tax evasion scheme that caused
the total damage of $28.5 million.
The issuer of electronic assets used by GlobalMoney is “Bank
Alliance”. The bank’s management confirmed the existence of the request of the
Ukrainian prosecutor’s office and law enforcement agencies to block all
accounts of GlobalMoney. The bank executed the decision to block the accounts
of the bank as part of the case on the seizure of funds.
Currently, the National Bank of Ukraine continues an
unscheduled on-site inspection of JSC “Bank Alliance ” (from May 2019 to
December 2020) on certain issues of compliance with the requirements of the
legislation of Ukraine, which regulates relations in the field of preventing
and countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, the
financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction. During the period from December 11, 2020, to February 11,
2021, a similar inspection was conducted at the offices of GlobalMoney. The
National Bank officially confirmed both inspections. According to a senior
source in the National Bank, dozens of violations of banking legislation and
facts of money laundering have already been found. Six months ago, GlobalMoney
became a provider of game services for the Wargaming game developing company.
Since October 2020, the GlobalMoney system processes all payments received from
the balance of mobile phones to replenish the game accounts in World of Tanks,
World of Warplanes, World of Warships, and other products of one of the most
famous game developers in the world.
According to the payment documents available at the disposal
of journalists, it is clear that the funds that go to the accounts of
GlobalMoney for replenishing Wargaming LLC games through the terminals are
added to the big dirty money of Ukrainian companies that avoid paying taxes and
want to launder their dirty money.
These funds are withdrawn through fictitious firms and bank
accounts to EU countries, including Cyprus.
Journalists sent questions about the money laundering scheme
to the management of Wargaming LLC, in particular, to the Head of Payments and
the Director of Wargaming Group Limited, Makis Savvides, and the Head of Global
Payments at Wargaming LLC, Adamos Savvides. It is also possible that the
following employees of the financial and other departments of Wargaming LLC are
involved in money laundering: Elena Lakhadynova, Nika Lucacova, Roman
Romanovsky, Tamara Sakolchik, and Filippos Kyriacou. All these people appear in
the documents and correspondence with the management of the GlobalMoney payment
system.
According to a source in law enforcement agencies, US law
enforcement agencies joined the investigation of GlobalMoney. The reason is the
fact that the traffic from the global24.ua (the payment system’s website) is
redirected to servers in the United States, while payments are processed by
various payment systems in the USA. It is also worth noting that American law
enforcement officers and the prosecutor’s office of the state of New York,
which conducts a tax investigation, are interested in people and companies that
work with GlobalMoney, in particular, Wargaming LLC. This company has a legal
entity in the United States called Wargaming America Inc., while the servers of
the company are also located in California. The company processes payments
using American banks.
The likely outcome of this investigation conducted by US law
enforcement agencies is the seizure of funds of GlobalMoney, Wargaming LLC, and
other individuals, not to mention other serious restrictions.
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