25.02.2025
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Cybercrimes
NBU, Ministry of Finance, and BES on Degryk-Shevtsova’s Knees: Who is Covering Up Corruption Schemes Involving Billions?
Ukrainians were cheated out of more than UAH 250 million. And this is only the approximate amount of funds that belonged to Parimatch’s clients and were blocked on the company’s accounts due to the NSDC sanctions.
Although Parimatch continues to operate in Ukraine through its duplicate projects Gorilla (gorilla.ua), Beton (beton.ua), VIPhouse31.com, 11dudebet.com, and stawkibet1.io, no one is going to return the funds to Ukrainians.
According to the Security Service of Ukraine, Parimatch continues to operate through offshore companies, including Ericius Investments Limited and Parimatch United Investments Limited. Each of these companies is owned by Russian citizens, including Ekaterina Belorusskaya, the daughter of Eduard Schwindlerman, who is the actual founder of Parimatch. He also actively worked in the territory of the so-called “DPR” and “LPR,” which casts serious doubt on his pro-Ukrainian activities in Ukraine and internationally. Back in 2017, in the framework of the proceedings 42017000000002925, the SBU reported about USD 350 million of money laundered by criminal means. As of 2025, this amount has increased hundreds of thousands of times and already amounts to several million.
For a long time, Parimatch managed to legalize its funds through cooperation with a number of banks and payment institutions in Ukraine, such as Ibox Bank, co-owned by Alyona Degryk-Shevtsova and Ihor Kolomoisky, and Leogaming Pay, which was supervised by the aforementioned Degryk. In 2023, the NBU revoked the license of Ibox Bank on the grounds of “systemic violation of financial monitoring requirements”, after which it was liquidated.
During its operation, Ibox Bank managed to conceal more than UAH 7.5 billion of transactions with FC Leogaming Pay and became the subject of a dozen criminal proceedings related to servicing illegal online casinos, illegal withdrawal of funds, and corruption.
As of now, some of the criminal proceedings have been closed, while others are still under investigation. Well, as in “under investigation”: like everything else in our country involving money bags, the cases are registered in the Unified State Register of Court Cases, but are slowly moving either towards disintegration or closure.
For example, representatives of the BES, the Prosecutor General’s Office and a judge of the Lychakiv District Court of Lviv have been trying to close the personal proceedings of Degryk-Shevtsova – №72023000500000071 for a long time, and cancel the search for the businesswoman.
In particular, on November 5, 2024, Judge Yuriy Bilous of the Lychakiv District Court of Lviv canceled the resolutions of the BES detectives of 02.05.2024, 14.05.2024 and 27.08.2024 to suspend the criminal proceedings in the case of Degryk-Shevtsova. This resulted in the cancellation of the state and international search for Shevtsova and the expiration of the maximum pre-trial investigation period.
Moreover, on January 30, the same investigating judge Bilous began the process of canceling Shevtsova’s suspicion, which will result in the closure of the case and even a possible recovery of moral damages from the state in her favor.
And although the Prosecutor General’s Office has already changed the jurisdiction by transferring the case to another court, we expect the same manipulations.
According to our sources, the State Bureau of Investigation (42023000000001384) and the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office (7202314000500000071) are also investigating. But how effective are they?
Over the years of Shevtsova’s active presence in the financial market of Ukraine, it has become clear that not only law enforcement officials, such as the head of the BES Perkhun, who makes decisions in favor of the woman’s businesses and refuses to consider complaints against her, have long been dancing to her tune. But also senior officials of the NBU, the Ministry of Finance, and CRAIL. This also explains why Degrik has not yet been sanctioned for helping to legalize assets in favor of Russia and financing Russian casinos.
And while Shevtsova was able to reach an agreement with the above-mentioned persons, in response to the materials we sent and the media coverage that did not allow the judges to suspend the proceedings against the woman, the owner of Ayboks ordered a wave of paid posts on a wide range of telegram channels, similar to the attack that was recently carried out against the former banker of Bank Melnyk. Channels with an audience of millions: Insider, Ukraine Online, Ukraine Now, Advocate of the Right, and All-Seeing Eye all posted similar posts that allegedly “exposed the venality of Non-Stop.”
“For $500, Non-Stop was ready to accuse Ibox Bank of fake ties to Russia and Medvedchuk,” the article read. But are Degreek’s ties to Russia a fiction? Didn’t Ayboks allow a list of casinos and bookmakers with Russian origins to withdraw funds to Russia? And where is the fact that we were paid “$500 for the accusation”? Where are the receipts or transaction confirmations?
In addition, it is a pleasure for us to expose pro-Russian figures, so we expose their connections and influence and connections within Ukraine for free, not for the $500 offered by the provocateur Drozd.
Interestingly, screenshots of the correspondence were actively circulating online a year ago. At that time, such disclosure was made in favor of and at the request of the same Medvedchuk and his partner Stolar. And a year ago, we analyzed every message where, among other things, there was not a single word about prepayment, invoices or estimates from our side. We have never asked for money in advance for publishing articles on our media platforms or starting a case study.
Non-Stop’s public activities are not about paid publications like Insider, Ukraine Online, Ukraine Now, Lawyer of Law, All-Seeing Eye, but about real exposés and investigations by a team of lawyers, analysts and marketers who, of course, want to be rewarded for the work they have already done, not for a fictional planned project. And if we are offered funding after the project is completed, we do not refuse. After all, any time, effort, and work of lawyers, installers, and designers should be compensated – and any media outlet, NGO, or company will tell you that.
In our exposés, we don’t focus on just one person, political force or company – we investigate different areas, cities and officials’ activities. We do not depend on USAID grants, oligarchs or the like. NGO “Non-Stop” is about independence and not being subordinate to beneficiaries.
We thank Shevtsova for the free advertising on the largest media platforms in the country and the hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in our PR. For us, this is just a new audience, publicity and spreading the name of Non-Stop to the masses, and for you, it is wasted money and tarnished reputation… once again.
And if you need legal assistance, coverage of the problem or in-depth research of the issue by lawyers, analysts, managers – professionals – please contact us. NGO “Non-Stop” will conduct its own unique research, and not copy posts one by one, like sales telegram channels, which also charge thousands of dollars for this.
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