Detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine at the request of the prosecutors of the Office Prosecutor general's seized the corporate rights of the company that was engaged in illegal activities in the field of organizing and conducting gambling games on the Internet. The value of the company's corporate rights in the form of a 100% share of the authorized capital is UAH 30 million.

The mentioned company had connections with the russian federation and worked on the russian market during the martial law in Ukraine. An analysis of the ownership structure of the legal entity that received a license and granted the right to use the trademark to the bookmaker company showed that its ultimate beneficiary is a citizen of the russian federation. NSDC sanctions have been imposed on the company.

The investigation established a group of persons who in the period 2021-2022, through a number of web resources, organized and conducted bookmaking activities and casino gambling on the Internet. In violation of the Law of Ukraine "On State regulation of activities regarding the organization and conduct of gambling" the company worked without a license to conduct the relevant type of activity.

Such illegal activities led to deliberate evasion of tax payments and the actual non-payment of funds to the budget in particularly large amounts.

As previously reported based on the recommendations sent to the ESBU the Commission for the regulation of gambling and lotteries canceled two licenses of this company which carried out its activities in the field of organizing and conducting gambling games in Ukraine.

The pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the grounds of criminal offenses provided for in Part 2 of Art. 203-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal activity of organizing or conducting gambling games, lotteries) and part 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (tax evasion, fees) are carried out by detectives of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Office Prosecutor general's.

Employees of the ESBU detect criminal violations, investigate criminal proceedings, and stop the illegal activities of gambling organizations. We will remind that recently detectives of the ESBU exposed and stopped the activities of a large illegal casino in Khmelnytskyi. Since the beginning of the year, the detectives of the Territorial Department of the ESBU in the Kyiv and Kyiv region have already closed 58 gambling establishments.