The company of the well-known schemer Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova, who since 2018 has become a symbol of Ukrainian corruption according to journalists and is mentioned in criminal cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office, is being transferred to front men.

Back in 2017, the country’s largest online casino operating under the Parimatch brand came under 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.

It involved dozens of individuals and legal entities connected in one way or another with Parimatch and directly participating in the casino’s operations, servicing accounts, helping to accept bets, and cashing out money. “The total amount of laundered income obtained by criminals amounts to about $350 million per year,” investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office concluded.

Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the founder and CEO of the financial company “Leogaming Pay,” which also appears in the 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. In fact, the company “Leogaming” was named after their son Lev. Currently, Alyona Shevtsova is the wife of Yevhen Shevtsov, a candidate for a senior position at the State Bureau of Investigations.

Yevhen Shevtsov is the head of one of the departments of the National Police. Before 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 registration address (moving from Kyiv to Kharkiv), and is now owned, through the Bila Tserkva-based LLC “Trans Trade Group,” by two individuals with signs of fictitiousness — Oleksandr Komlik, a resident of 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 Zhalnin. A person with this name and taxpayer ID has appeared in many companies, including “AMI-Spetstekhnika,” “New Technologies Plus,” and others.

However, a more interesting fact is that this individual is listed in the “Myrotvorets” database as a militant of the illegal armed formation of the DPR. On Petro Zhalnin’s VKontakte page, the former website “New Technologies Plus” is mentioned; the militant boasts of a DPR “passport” and posts photos in uniform with an assault rifle, as well as a 2015 photo from Red Square in Moscow.

How it was possible to register companies under the name of a DPR militant who is wanted and has not left the territory not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities is an interesting question.

In court materials regarding Alyona Shevtsova’s companies, the Security Service of Ukraine stated that they were financing militants in eastern Ukraine.

However, as previously reported by the media, Deputy Minister of Justice Nataliia Bernatska is a member of the external competition commission of the State Bureau of Investigations. She voted twice for the appointment of Yevhen Shevtsov to the SBI. With such connections in the Ministry of Justice, transferring companies to a DPR militant is not a problem. It is also worth noting that Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik) is the godmother and close friend of Tetiana Smolii, the daughter of National Bank head Yakiv Smolii.