The company of the well-known schemer Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova, who since 2018 has been considered by journalists a symbol of Ukrainian corruption and is mentioned in criminal cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office, is being reassigned to front men.
Back in 2017, the country’s largest online casino operating under the brand Pari-Match became the subject of suspicion from law enforcement agencies. With the support of the Security Service of Ukraine, in October 2017 the Prosecutor General’s Office registered criminal proceedings under number 42017000000002925.
The case involved dozens of individuals and legal entities connected in one way or another with Pari-Match, who directly participated in the operation of the casino, serviced accounts, facilitated betting, and helped convert funds into cash. “The total amount of income legalized by the perpetrators, obtained through criminal means, amounts to approximately $350 million per year,” investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office concluded.
Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the founder and CEO of FC Leogaming Pay, which is also mentioned in the criminal case materials. In narrower circles, she is known as the former common-law wife of Roman Nasirov, with whom she previously worked at Concorde Capital. The company “Leogaming” was in fact named after their son Lev. Currently, Alona Shevtsova is the wife of Yevhen Shevtsov, a candidate for a senior position in the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine.
Yevhen Shevtsov serves as the head of one of the departments of the National Police of Ukraine. Prior to that, in 2016–2017, he worked as the commercial director of the company “Financial Company Leogaming Pay.”
At the beginning of August, Dehrik withdrew from the list of founders of LLC “Leogaming.” The company immediately changed its name to iGame, changed its registered address (moving from Kyiv to Kharkiv), and is now owned, through the Bila Tserkva-based LLC “Trans Trade Group,” by two individuals showing signs of fictitious ownership — Oleksandr Komlik from the village of Andriyashivka in Sumy region, and Volodymyr Tymoshchuk from the village of Velyka Snitynka in Kyiv region.
The new director of the renamed “Leogaming” became Petro Valeriiovych Zhalnin. A person with this name and tax ID has appeared in many companies: “AMI-Spetstekhnika,” “New Technologies Plus,” and others.
More noteworthy, however, is that this individual is listed in the “Myrotvorets” database as a militant of the illegal armed formation of the so-called “DPR.” On his VKontakte page, Zhalnin references the former website “New Technologies Plus,” boasts of a “DPR passport,” and posts photos in military uniform with a rifle, as well as a 2015 photo from Red Square in Moscow.
How it became possible to register company management under a DPR militant who is wanted and has not left territory beyond Ukrainian government control remains an open question.
According to court materials regarding Alyona Shevtsova’s companies, the Security Service of Ukraine stated that they finance militants in eastern Ukraine.
However, as previously reported by the media, Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Bernatska is a member of the external competition commission of the State Bureau of Investigations. She voted twice in favor of appointing Yevhen Shevtsov to the SBI. With such allies in the Ministry of Justice, re-registering companies under a DPR militant does not seem to be a problem. It is also worth noting that Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the godmother and close friend of Tetiana Smolii, daughter of the head of the National Bank, Yakiv Smolii.
Crime & Courts Correspondent
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