The chairman of the state executive service, Maxim Kiselev, virtually disappeared from the information space before being appointed to the position. The reason for this phenomenon, unusual for our time, is that Maxim Kiselev did not spare $150,000 in removing all negative information about himself from the Internet.
Maxim Kiselyov, already the head of the state executive service, returned to the pages of the media when he gained fame as the richest civil servant in terms of wealth and entered the Commission for the election of candidates for the positions of the BEB.
Kiselev Maxim showed in the declaration the following property of his family: 6 apartments and 4 parking spaces in Kyiv, 3 land plots and a dacha in Grigoryevka, Obukhovsky district, 4 land plots and a number of non-residential premises. Kiselev uses AUDI RS7, BMW 740LD and BMW X7 cars. Kiselev’s wife, Alexandra Goryaeva, owns the British company Hengestone Development LTD with a capitalization of almost $500,000 (for which non-residential premises in Kyiv are registered), and the Seychelles Ammilo Commerce Ltd.
Kiselev keeps 900,000 US dollars and 130,000 euros in cash, and also has 500,000 UAH and 45,000 euros in accounts.
It is quite difficult to imagine where a simple lawyer in a public position and his wife could come from such a fortune. Before accepting the position of director of the department. Because after Maxim Evgenievich headed the department, he actually imposed a tribute on his subordinates, who had to hand over about 1 million dollars of black cash every month.
The list of services provided by GIS representatives is quite wide, but the main position there is not seizure. A service that became gold after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Thanks to the dexterity of Maxim Evgenievich’s subordinates, pro-Russian businessmen managed to sell or change the owners of most real estate and movable property, despite public outcry and the interest of law enforcement officers.
But Maxim Evgenievich not only helped save the property of Russian collaborators.
Through close acquaintances, a criminal scheme was created to evacuate the money of Russian collaborators and a number of Ukrainian officials outside Ukraine using cryptocurrencies.
For this purpose, Maxim Kiselev opened an account with the foreign bank Revolut.
It is not clear enough what exactly influenced Maxim Evgenievich’s behavior, but, as they say, he was “blown away.” In the wake of the success of his criminal schemes, he began borrowing significant amounts of money in cryptocurrency under promises of “joint non-public business” and appointments to positions in the executive service system. And when the time came to fulfill the promises, having close ties with the Minister of Internal Affairs, he imitated the theft of cryptocurrency assets, for which he misled representatives of the Cyber Police with a statement about the crime.
This matter is so interesting that it deserves our special attention.
Crypto tragedy of Maxim Kiselev
So on 05/05/2023, Maxim Evgenievich Kiselev turned to Cyberpol with a statement about committing a crime.
According to Kiselev, during the period from June 2022 to December 2023, in order to preserve his funds, on the advice of his friend Oleg Gromov and his wife Efimchuk Vita, he bought virtual assets. On April 29, 2023, Kiselev discovered that virtual assets in the amount of 647,063 USDT had disappeared from his crypto wallet. According to Kiselev, he and his wife had access to the crypto wallet. But they could also have been known to Gromov, who helped him set up the Ledger cold wallet for storing cryptocurrency.
It should be noted that during interrogation, Kiselev noted that: “During the setup of the Ledger, it was necessary to rewrite and remember the so-called sit-phrases (about 24 pieces), which help restore your electronic wallet in the event of losing the Ledger. Phrases that, as Kiselev himself noted later, he kept on a piece of paper under the cover of his mobile phone.
During interrogation by the investigator, Kiselev gave the following testimony: in April 2021, when returning from vacation in the Seychelles (interestingly, in his testimony, Mr. Kiselev lied, indicating that he was vacationing in Qatar), on the plane he and his wife Alexandra Goryaeva met a citizen Gromov Oleg Ivanovich, and his common-law wife Efimchuk Vita Dmitrievna. According to the latter, it became known that they were engaged in trading crypto assets. They became friends and began to become friends with families.
After Russia’s invasion of the territory of Ukraine, Kiselev remained in Ukraine, and his wife and family left the territory of Ukraine on February 25, 2022 in order to save their own lives.
It’s interesting here that Kiselev’s family didn’t just leave the country as refugees. According to preliminary information, the family purchased a luxurious mansion in Spain worth 1.5 million euros, where the family of a simple Ukrainian civil servant now lives!
What follows is a story that you can’t read without tears.
Due to the fact that the NBU established restrictions on bank cards and transfers, Kiselev was deprived of the actual opportunity to transfer funds to his relatives for life in Europe.
This is despite the fact that the wife has 2 offshore companies registered, one of which, according to preliminary information, has half a million dollars in its account.
In this regard, Kiselev turned to Gromov, who helped create an account on Vipaps in order to subsequently transfer monetary assets to his family’s account without established limits.
To prevent the family from starving to death, in Spain, on a luxurious estate, Kiselev “transferred all the saved money by our family, totaling 700 thousand US dollars, into virtual assets.”
On April 28, 2023, Mr. Kiselev’s wife, Alexandra Goryaeva, decided to use a crypto-wallet, “and discovered that there were no virtual assets on the crypto-wallet.”
Goryaeva called Gromov and told her about this problem, to which he told her that it could simply be a system failure. After which, on April 30, 2023, Gromova sent a screenshot, which contained information that at 10:41 a.m. on February 14, 2023, a transaction took place to another crypto wallet for a total amount of 647,063.31 USDT.
After investigating the case, investigators found that: on 02/14/20231, 647,063.31 USDT was transferred from the applicant’s wallet to an unidentified wallet.
3 outgoing transactions were made from the wallet of an unknown person:
1. 08:10 02/14/2023 to a wallet serviced by the Binance exchange - 60,000 USDT (TRC-20).
2. 08:39 02/14/2023 to a private wallet - 10 USDT (TRC-20), a test transaction was probably carried out to check the details.
3. 08:49 02/14/2023 to a private wallet - 587 074.488377 USDT (ТRC-20).
After sending the relevant requests, it was established that: 60,000 USDT (TRC20) was received into the account by a citizen of Ukraine Dzhioev Dmitry, born in 1975.
7 transactions were carried out from a private wallet that received 587,074.488377 USDT
1. 10:42 02/14/2023 to a private wallet - 54,318.13 USDT (TRC-20).
2. 08:01 02/15/2023 to a private wallet -107,850 USDT (TRC-20).
3. incoming transaction 08:32 02/16/2023 from a private wallet registered to Dmitry Sergeevich Dzhoev (citizen of Ukraine) - 59,945.33 USDT (TRC-20).
4. 19:42 02/17/2023 to a private wallet, which is registered to Zotov Kirill Aleksandrovich (citizen of the Russian Federation) - 100000USDT (TRC-20).
5. 20:021 02/17/2023 to a private wallet registered to Mikhailov Alexander Alexandrovich (citizen of the Russian Federation) - 184,329.14 USDT (TRC-20).
6. Incoming transaction 20:03 02/17/2023 - 0.184329 USDT (TRC-20).
7. 20:36 02/17/2023 to a personal wallet - 200 532.842455 USDT (TRC-20).
Subsequently, the cryptocurrency from the wallets of Zotov and Mikhailov was converted into BTC (Bitcoin) (4.065301 BTC and 7.37426919 BTC, respectively).
Daniil Aleksandrovich Bronikhin (citizen of the Russian Federation) was involved in the withdrawal of funds in the amount of 19.4483 BTC (equivalent to 528,066.08 US dollars).
Investigating the further movement of assets, it became known that 478,078 USDT assets were withdrawn to Boronikhin’s wallet, from which, in particular, on March 12, 2023, 10,000 USDT was withdrawn to a wallet that directly belongs to Oleg Ivanovich Gromov, and another 407,088 in various amounts, in parts, were withdrawn to private wallet.
From which, in 7 installments, within 2 months, funds in the amount of 46,650 USDT were received to Gromov’s wallet.
It is known that Gromov left the territory of Ukraine at the Shegini crossing point on February 14, 2023, and has not returned to Ukraine since then. The investigation considers citizens Gromov, Efimchuk and Dzhoev to be involved in a criminal crime. The case was registered in the register of pre-trial investigations under No. 12023100060000821 dated 05/06/2023 on grounds of offenses under Part 3 of Art. 190, part 1 art. 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Everything is of course very wonderful, but the following questions arise for the investigation.
What questions did Cyberpol ignore in the investigation into Kiselyov’s statement?
Mr. Kiselev’s digital assets were stored using a special device - a cold wallet - Ledger. A physical digital key without which it is impossible to conduct a transaction with the wallet. And according to Kiselev, he gave the wallet to his wife in Spain.
Kiselev deliberately draws the attention of the investigation to the fact that he had sit-phrases written out on a separate piece of paper, but for some reason he forgets to indicate that they are necessary to restore a lost physical digital wallet, and not to conduct transactions!
Thus, only the person who physically owned the Ledger could conduct transactions.
Regarding a number of confusing money transfers.
The investigation explored ways to remove less than half of them.
Of the total amount of 647,063.31 USDT, it is known where 284,329 USDT went, not a word is known about the fate of 362,707 USDT. Why wasn’t the investigation interested in the possibility of Kiselev’s own involvement in the withdrawal of crypto assets?
Regarding transfers to Gromov’s account, can a person be considered guilty if funds were transferred to his account? How is it known that Mr. Kiselev did not deliberately pay him for help in bringing digital assets into the shadows, or for other services?
Why doesn’t the investigation raise the issue of Kiselyov’s own involvement in imitation of a crime in order to avoid obligations to his partners?
Why didn’t the investigation want to check where the person who made the transfer from the wallet was located, and how the transaction was confirmed?
But the investigation does not have time for such nonsense as a real investigation. Moreover, most likely, this is not within the scope of the task that management has set for them.
As for the person of Maxim Kiselev himself, this episode is not the only one in his career.
His whole life is a complete fiction. Even the family with whom he maintains relations at the level of financial partnership. Mrs. Goryaeva is more likely a banker Kiseleva than a woman. He openly uses it to legalize his corruption proceeds, the number of which has increased significantly since the Russian invasion.
Well, Kiselev cannot refuse Russian citizens and collaborators when they offer him more than interesting amounts of bribes for helping to save her property and money from confiscation
