The court chose the preventive measures for the owners and top managers of the online casino, who are suspected of laundering russian money

According to the materials of the SBI investigation and the petition of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the court has chosen the preventive measures for beneficial owners and top managers of the online casino suspected of laundering russian money.

The preventive measures in the form of detention were chosen for them.

Earlier, the employees of the SBI have served notifications of suspicion under the article of aiding the aggressor state (Article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) to the beneficial owners of the online casino, to the director and owner of the trademark and domain name.

As part of the investigation into the activities of the commercial structure that had been licensed to organize gambling on the Internet, in cooperation with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, the facts of complicity of its representatives to the aggressor state were revealed.

In particular, the connections of this online casino with representatives of the russian federation and russian capital, as well as with sanctioned entities in Ukraine, have been documented. The business was also operated under the cover of the entities that are under the jurisdiction of the State Bureau of Investigation.

The employees of the SBI carried out a large range of procedural measures, including technical ones, with the involvement of relevant experts, who confirmed the negative consequences for the combat capability of the Defense Forces of Ukraine because of the use of the services of the online casino.

Within the framework of the investigation, it was established that persons related to the activities of the online casinos conduct their business activities in the territory of the so-called "luhansk people's republic" thus filling the budget of the aggressor state. They are financing the power bloc, the military-industrial complex of the russian federation, as well as the armed aggression against Ukraine.

In addition, the person who directly controls the activities of the online casinos, after the start of the full-scale invasion, financed veterans of the so-called "special military operation". It is the online casino that continues to operate in russia and russian web resources.

Currently, the State Bureau of Investigation, together with other authorized bodies, are taking measures to recover the seized assets and transfer them to the state revenue in accordance with the norms of current legislation.

The court has satisfied the request of the SBI and the Office of the Prosecutor General about the transfer to ARMA more than UAH 2.6 billion (this is the total amount of arrested funds, including account profitable financial transactions) that was seized from the accounts of the online-casino that is associated with representatives of the aggressor state.

At the same time, the defendants even made illegal and unsuccessful attempts to lift arrests from the assets transferred to ARMA.

By the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated November 05, 2024 No. 1088-p, the purchase of the bonds of the domestic state loan " Military Bonds" by ARMA was approved. It should be made at the expense of the funds mentioned above, in the amount of UAH 2 billion. Moreover it has to be noted that those bonds have already been working to support our defense capability and economy.