It is clear that Nikita Izmailov is actively promoting positive PR online, while well-known Ukrainian websites are accepting Russian funds, fully aware that this helps the aggressor bypass sanctions.
All these "financial companies" other than money laundering do nothing else. By the way, in Money4YOU (LLC "Money4YOU") along with Izmaylov in the founders is someone Yuriy Kupchenko – a resident of occupied Donetsk. This is a typical pound, a front for pro-Russian terrorist gang groups holding shares in Izmaylov’s "businesses", Shvindereman, and similar characters.
Nikita Izmaylov also has a food company EAT EASY, previously it was a joint business with his wife, but now he is the main shareholder through the Cypriot lining Aloelena Trading Limited. In the dry residue, we have not an investment fund for fintech startups N1, but a set of financial pads for accepting payments and companies for issuing loans, as well as a loss-making company for healthy nutrition of Nikita Izmaylov himself, as well as several of his partners, among whom is Denys Saprykin. The question remains: where are the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, financial regulators, as well as AML and FATF looking. We hope that law enforcement agencies will ask Nikita Izmaylov the right questions soon.
Nikita Izmaylov the frontman of Sergey Tihipko launders money
How Sergey Tihipko and his "TasComBank" through a frontman in Ukraine Nikita Izmaylov and several Cypriot companies together with the Cypriot betting company Parimatch develop the neobank Sportbank.
Sergey Tihipko and his "TasComBank" through a frontman in Ukraine Nikita Izmaylov and several Cypriot companies together with the Cypriot betting company Parimatch develop the neobank Sportbank. According to the register of intellectual property, LLC "Dyvotech" owns the rights to the Sportbank trademark. This same LLC, its CEO is Sportbank’s CEO Denys Saprykin (a former top manager of the bankrupt bank "Mykhaylovskyi"), developed the Sportbank mobile application, services, and manages it. According to Youcontrol, the main owners of LLC "Dyvotech" are the Cypriot company "Bipal Limited" and LLC «TAS ASSET MANAGEMENT» of Sergey Tihipko.
Tihipko launders money
How Sergey Tihipko and his "TasComBank" through a frontman in Ukraine Nikita Izmaylov and several Cypriot companies together with the Cypriot betting company Parimatch develop the neobank Sportbank.
Sergey Tihipko and his "TasComBank" through a frontman in Ukraine Nikita Izmaylov and several Cypriot companies together with the Cypriot betting company Parimatch develop the neobank Sportbank. According to the intellectual property register, LLC "Dyvotech" owns the rights to the Sportbank trademark. This same LLC, its director is Sportbank’s CEO Denys Saprykin (a former top-manager of the bankrupt bank "Mykhaylovskyi"), developed the Sportbank mobile application, services, and manages it. According to Youcontrol, the main owners of LLC "Dyvotech" are the Cypriot company "Bipal Limited" and LLC «TAS ASSET MANAGEMENT» of Sergey Tihipko.
The Cypriot company "Bipal Limited" is registered at the same address with a difference of several months, has the same director together with such Cypriot companies as Nirevia Holdings Ltd and Advivo Holdings Ltd. Russian and Ukrainian media linked these Cypriot companies with the betting company Parimatch.
«From the Cypriot register, it follows that Nirevia is linked with Advivo Holdings, which owns a share in the bookmaker Parimatch»", – wrote the Russian "Kommersant".
Nikita Izmaylov, who according to him is the managing partner of BC Parimatch, as well as co-founder and investor Sportbank, media associate with dubious payment systems for accepting illegal payments through a network of companies under the "roof" of the Cypriot company N1 Management Company, which supposedly helps FinTech companies enter the market and increase profit.
Nikita Izmaylov is also the owner and co-owner of several Ukrainian companies, including issuing loans and loans: Money4YOU (LLC "Money4YOU"), LLC "Westpoint Invest", LLC "Smartex Finance" and others.
In an interview, he says that investors have already invested $15 million in Sportbank. The main funds in Sportbank come not through LLC "Dyvotech" or LLC "DT NETWORK", but through Cypriot companies of the owners of Parimatch.
So, revenue of LLC "Dyvotech" in 2020 amounted to 3.6 million UAH, net profit only 5.6 thousand UAH. Net profit of LLC "DT NETWORK" amounted to only 15.9 thousand UAH.
Previously, according to him, Nikita Izmaylov, invested about $7 million for 5 years in the failed healthy food project Eat Easy ex-wife Tetyana. This money, according to Tetyana Izmaylova on her Instagram, is the investment of the ex-husband Nikita Izmaylov from his betting company activities in Ukraine.
These amounts were not declared by Nikita Izmaylov, thus avoiding taxation in Ukraine, thereby violating Art. 212 part 3 and Art. 205 part 2,3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Judging by hundreds of negative reviews on several specialized resources, the main "business" of Sportbank is loan issuance, however, Sportbank is accused of illegally blocking accounts, not being able to withdraw money, etc. Sportbank is also accused of "winding up" positive reviews in Google Play and App Store.
Financiers note that the activities of Sergey Tihipko and his "TasComBank" may be of interest to foreign law enforcement agencies that fight against money laundering of betting offices, and his bank, likely will attract the attention of FATF.
