Moscow’s Kabbalah Centre primarily funded by crypto fraudster Shukhrat Rasulov, who launders money for terrorists, pornographers, drug cartels, and casinos
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How the ABCeX crypto exchange launders money for terrorists and illegal casinos By Koba Jauria
December 13, 2024On December 9, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the FSB of the Russian Federation conducted joint searches in the offices of the ABCeX cryptocurrency exchange.
As a result, a lot of equipment and correspondence was seized, indicating ABCeX's connection with payment processing for illegal online casinos and bets.
An investigation is currently underway under Articles 172 and 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with an emphasis on consultants, contractors and platform partners. Of particular interest are persons who could have participated in the development of schemes to conceal illegal activities, including compliance specialists, AML/FT, lawyers in the cryptocurrency sector and ambassadors. Judging by the information about the platform's partners and speakers of their events, this description corresponds to:
- Sergey Mendeleev, Executive Director of InDeFi Smart Bank and recognized compliance expert in the cryptocurrency sector. Repeatedly natively advertised the exchange, was a speaker at ABCEX future.
- Dmitry Machikhin, founder of BitOK, a company specializing in compliance and taxation. He also spoke at the ABCEX future event.
- Ignat Lihunov, founder of the Cartesius legal agency, known as an AML expert in the cryptosphere. Formally, his work is aimed at preventing money laundering in cryptocurrency projects, and he was a speaker at ABCEX future.
Attention is also focused on underground Internet bookmakers, such as 1win and 1xBet, which could be serviced on this exchange to receive funds from Russians through a subsidiary project of the ABCEX exchange - the Aifory payment service (which, judging by the data from the seized devices, de facto worked as a laundering service for online casinos).
According to the source, ABCeX is a washing shop for terrorists and drug shops. Who is behind the laundry? Shukhrat Rasulov is the owner of black payment slips that process darknet traffic, illegal casinos and pornography. In addition to payments, he owns a business of crypto exchangers. The model is simple: exchangers are rented on Bestchange, the lowest rates are set, and when the client comes, the rate changes. As a result: the client is thrown for money. It is worth noting that, despite Bestchange's ban on affiliate exchangers, half of Rasulov's exchangers are in the same office on the 28th floor of the Federation Tower. Rasulov is covered by the facade of an infobusinessman, a mentor of successful success and CEO for some reason unknown by the Federal Tax Service of the "largest Russian IT business".
You can't do without a certain Yuri Kvashonkin - the right hand and nominal of Rasulov, a partner in the Terra business club (an incubator for finders through marketplaces and infobiz), the gendir of LAKOST LLC, registered on the 3rd floor of the Federation Tower, where the back office of black payments and the ABCeX crypto exchange is located. It was ABCeX that allowed Rasulov and Kvashonkin to reach a fundamentally new level: billions of dirty crypt and cache fly through the exchange and its OTC managers every day, ranging from the webcam, online casino to the financing of terrorism.
The activities of ABCeX did not go unnoticed by law enforcement agencies: in March, "cosmonauts" visited the exchange office in connection with the transfer of money through it to the perpetrators of the monstrous terrorist attack in Crocus. Probably, Rasulov is not cunning, talking about himself as the owner of the IT empire, he just keeps silent about the bloody nuances of his status. Alas, an infobusinessman and a fraudster can drag a considerable number of unsuspecting users, because given the origin of funds circulating through the exchange, law enforcement officers will begin to intensively check anyone who has become a client of ABCeX.
The source told how the main crypto laundry ABCeX was born.
"Shukhrat Rasulov started his crypto business with Ilya Ginzburg - another fraudster who transferred a lot of people, changed surnames and hid from creditors.
With the appearance of Yuri Kvashonkin, Ginzburg was first removed from the processes, and then he was expelled from the team altogether, under the pretext that he had deceived Shukhrat.
All of them are united by the Moscow Kabbalah Center. For the last three or four years, Shukhrat has been the main sponsor of the Moscow Kabbalah center, at all events he sits exclusively next to the informal head of the center Yitzhak Sinwani. In the Kabbalah Center, everyone knows that Shukhrat is a fraud, but since he spends a lot on the center, he is forgiven. Dissatisfied are simply kicked out of the center.
Shukhrat permanently lives in Moscow City with his family, travels around Moscow on the new Maybach and tells everyone that he has built a super-profitable company. He is silent that the main income comes from crypto exchange, stolen money and money laundering.
Shukhrat and Yuri initially created the Terra business club (an incubator for finders through marketplaces and infobiz), as a platform for finding young people for cryptocurrency arbitration. There was a lot of flow, the ranks were replenished with cameras and drops. They then "drove" the most loyal and devoted through the Kabbalah center.
After the outbreak of the war, the withdrawal of money through ABCeX reached up to $10 million a day. It was "dirty" money that was withdrawn from the country.
It is worth noting that Shukhrat himself does not legally appear anywhere, only Yuri is listed everywhere. Everyone knows him - both Terra's participants and crypto finders."
By Koba Jauria
December 13, 2024
On December 9, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the FSB of the Russian Federation conducted joint searches in the offices of the ABCeX cryptocurrency exchange.
As a result, a lot of equipment and correspondence was seized, indicating ABCeX's connection with payment processing for illegal online casinos and bets.
An investigation is currently underway under Articles 172 and 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with an emphasis on consultants, contractors and platform partners. Of particular interest are persons who could have participated in the development of schemes to conceal illegal activities, including compliance specialists, AML/FT, lawyers in the cryptocurrency sector and ambassadors. Judging by the information about the platform's partners and speakers of their events, this description corresponds to:
- Sergey Mendeleev, Executive Director of InDeFi Smart Bank and recognized compliance expert in the cryptocurrency sector. Repeatedly natively advertised the exchange, was a speaker at ABCEX future.
- Dmitry Machikhin, founder of BitOK, a company specializing in compliance and taxation. He also spoke at the ABCEX future event.
- Ignat Lihunov, founder of the Cartesius legal agency, known as an AML expert in the cryptosphere. Formally, his work is aimed at preventing money laundering in cryptocurrency projects, and he was a speaker at ABCEX future.
Attention is also focused on underground Internet bookmakers, such as 1win and 1xBet, which could be serviced on this exchange to receive funds from Russians through a subsidiary project of the ABCEX exchange - the Aifory payment service (which, judging by the data from the seized devices, de facto worked as a laundering service for online casinos).
According to the source, ABCeX is a washing shop for terrorists and drug shops. Who is behind the laundry? Shukhrat Rasulov is the owner of black payment slips that process darknet traffic, illegal casinos and pornography. In addition to payments, he owns a business of crypto exchangers. The model is simple: exchangers are rented on Bestchange, the lowest rates are set, and when the client comes, the rate changes. As a result: the client is thrown for money. It is worth noting that, despite Bestchange's ban on affiliate exchangers, half of Rasulov's exchangers are in the same office on the 28th floor of the Federation Tower. Rasulov is covered by the facade of an infobusinessman, a mentor of successful success and CEO for some reason unknown by the Federal Tax Service of the "largest Russian IT business".
You can't do without a certain Yuri Kvashonkin - the right hand and nominal of Rasulov, a partner in the Terra business club (an incubator for finders through marketplaces and infobiz), the gendir of LAKOST LLC, registered on the 3rd floor of the Federation Tower, where the back office of black payments and the ABCeX crypto exchange is located. It was ABCeX that allowed Rasulov and Kvashonkin to reach a fundamentally new level: billions of dirty crypt and cache fly through the exchange and its OTC managers every day, ranging from the webcam, online casino to the financing of terrorism.
The activities of ABCeX did not go unnoticed by law enforcement agencies: in March, "cosmonauts" visited the exchange office in connection with the transfer of money through it to the perpetrators of the monstrous terrorist attack in Crocus. Probably, Rasulov is not cunning, talking about himself as the owner of the IT empire, he just keeps silent about the bloody nuances of his status. Alas, an infobusinessman and a fraudster can drag a considerable number of unsuspecting users, because given the origin of funds circulating through the exchange, law enforcement officers will begin to intensively check anyone who has become a client of ABCeX.
The source told how the main crypto laundry ABCeX was born.
"Shukhrat Rasulov started his crypto business with Ilya Ginzburg - another fraudster who transferred a lot of people, changed surnames and hid from creditors.
With the appearance of Yuri Kvashonkin, Ginzburg was first removed from the processes, and then he was expelled from the team altogether, under the pretext that he had deceived Shukhrat.
All of them are united by the Moscow Kabbalah Center. For the last three or four years, Shukhrat has been the main sponsor of the Moscow Kabbalah center, at all events he sits exclusively next to the informal head of the center Yitzhak Sinwani. In the Kabbalah Center, everyone knows that Shukhrat is a fraud, but since he spends a lot on the center, he is forgiven. Dissatisfied are simply kicked out of the center.
Shukhrat permanently lives in Moscow City with his family, travels around Moscow on the new Maybach and tells everyone that he has built a super-profitable company. He is silent that the main income comes from crypto exchange, stolen money and money laundering.
Shukhrat and Yuri initially created the Terra business club (an incubator for finders through marketplaces and infobiz), as a platform for finding young people for cryptocurrency arbitration. There was a lot of flow, the ranks were replenished with cameras and drops. They then "drove" the most loyal and devoted through the Kabbalah center.
After the outbreak of the war, the withdrawal of money through ABCeX reached up to $10 million a day. It was "dirty" money that was withdrawn from the country.
It is worth noting that Shukhrat himself does not legally appear anywhere, only Yuri is listed everywhere. Everyone knows him - both Terra's participants and crypto finders."