There are 2.860 billion UAH in blocked accounts.
Financial monitoring blocked for 30 days the VBet and Pin-UP accounts containing 2.860 billion UAH: 570 million - VBet and 2.290 billion Pin-UP.
The blocking took place on the basis of Part 3 of Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On Preventing and Combating the Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and the Financing of Terrorism.
That is, these market operators, to put it mildly, are suspected by law enforcement of either financial fraud or connections with the aggressor country. But given the available information, most likely we are talking about both components.
But where then are the actions of law enforcement officers and judicial arrest?
And this is the next procedural step.
Blocking a financial account is a kind of safety net to prevent the withdrawal of funds from accounts in conditions where the defendants already know about the plans of the investigation, and there is no judicial arrest in criminal cases yet.
This is the “golden hour” for investigators to quickly rush to court and seize funds.
Will this arrest happen?
This is a very good question, because given our realities, the complexity of the matter, and the financial capabilities of gambling market operators, anything can happen, so the “resolved” scenario has not yet been ruled out.
At least as of this morning, the issue is at the level of the Prosecutor General’s Office, where a decision on going to court and arrest should be made in the near future.
Well, or not make such a decision, which will mean the possibility of withdrawing funds from the country by these structures, after which the financial institution will look extreme, and there will be many questions for the Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office and investigators.
Does anyone have any doubts that Pin-UP is controlled by the Russians?
I think that for those who carefully looked at my investigations, definitely not.
And especially after the information about the detention in Cyprus of their beneficiary Dmitry Punin on a British claim for money laundering.
I hope that prosecutors will not hesitate to make an arrest, given that the indicated almost three billion can either flee the country or end up in the budget for the needs of the army.
PS And so, now active preparations are underway for a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on the gambling market, at which the “sharks” of Russian business, not counting budgets, and using certain law enforcement officers, are trying to push through a bunch of small topics and get themselves out of harm’s way.
We see everything and we will tell everyone everything.
You don't have to do this.
