After a brief period of silence, Dmytro Rukin’s name has once again appeared in reports concerning his alleged involvement in questionable financial operations.

This time, the focus is not on the payment systems 4Bill and SettlePay — following the scandal surrounding them, Rukin was forced to leave Ukraine — but on his new fintech venture, the Spanish company Victo Postanova SL, where he serves as both director and beneficial owner.

Formally, the company is engaged in advertising services for online business. Rukin himself claims that his goal is – to build an international fintech business and develop products for online payments. The product has not yet been noticed in any scandals similar to the story with 4Bill and SettlePay, after which Dmytro Rukin became a figure in a criminal case in Ukraine, but it still raises questions.

Dmytro Rukin acts as the beneficiary and director of Victo Postanova SL, which is based in Spain but conducts its activities in Latin America. The main operational countries are Brazil and Peru.

Other oddities also attract attention. Victo Postanova SL is registered as an advertising agency, but its branches and subsidiaries operate in the field of payment operations, far from the parent company – on the other side of the world, and Brazil is not a close partner or ally of Spain; on the contrary, relations between the countries are quite cool.

Such a combination is a classic signal for financial market analysts: a European company with a neutral type of activity and financial structures in less regulated jurisdictions.

But besides this signal, there is another detail that simply cannot go unnoticed – Dmytro Rukin opened his European-American business after fleeing Ukraine.

Recall that in 2023, a major corporate conflict erupted around the 4Bill payment system. At that time, Dmytro Rukin held the position of sales director in the Digital Finance structure, which worked with the 4Bill, SettlePay, BetterBro payment services, and other related projects.

The conflict entered the public sphere after an internal audit revealed large-scale financial violations. As stated by the beneficiaries of the 4Bill infrastructure, a group of managers – Dmytro Rukin, Nazar Yanko, and Sergey Ganin – organized a scheme to withdraw funds from the payment system.

Dmytro Rukin was named the key figure in this scheme, which involved manipulations with payment operation rates, as a result of which client funds were withdrawn from 4Bill through bank cards of relatives of Rukin, Yanko, and Ganin.

In addition, Dmytro Rukin created a network of shell companies through which the stolen funds were transferred to hidden accounts in various jurisdictions. These companies were used to withdraw funds from the 4Bill payment infrastructure and further move financial flows through foreign jurisdictions.

The scheme looked quite typical for the fintech gray market: the payment service serves high-risk online business; transactions pass through a network of intermediary companies; money is distributed through several jurisdictions.

Journalists’ publications regularly mention four key structures directly or indirectly owned by Dmytro Rukin: Victo Postanova Sociedad Limitada (Spain), Softintegra Holding Limitada (Brazil), La Finteca Instituicao de Pagamento LTDA (Brazil), and Pagos Nacionales S.A.C (Peru).

However, an obvious question lies on the surface: why in Spain, a member of the European Union and, although they look quite liberally at the origin of money, have they not become interested in the origin of Dmytro Rukin’s capital? There is no answer to this question yet, but something clearly happened after the advertising agency Victo Postanova SL established the exchange of financial flows with its partners and «subsidiaries» in Latin America – materials appeared in which insiders claim that questions arose for Dmytro Rukin from the Spanish tax authority (Agencia Tributaria) and the Civil Guard (Guardia Civil).

Whether this is true or not is still unknown, but in Ukraine, Dmytro Rukin definitely left problems behind: after the publications and internal investigation of the companies, a criminal proceeding was opened. The investigation qualified his actions under Parts 3 and 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud using electronic systems and on a particularly large scale).

However, the further fate of the case remains unclear. There is almost no information about its development in the court registers. This suggests that Dmytro Rukin is trying by all means to «resolve» the issue. Whether he will succeed or not is a big question, since behind the companies he «left high and dry» for a very substantial amount, there are also influential people.

And they clearly do not intend to let Dmytro Rukin get away with stealing money and ruining the company’s reputation. Ihor Bokiy and Andriy Savchenko, whose money Dmytro Rukin used to open his Spanish-Peruvian-Brazilian business, are not people who can be deceived with impunity.

Perhaps it was thanks to them that Rukin’s problems in Spain began. However, this is just one version so far. Spain, we remind you, is an EU member, so its law enforcement agencies could independently become interested in the clearly unusual activity for an advertising agency, since Victo Postanova SL, formally an advertising structure, became the center of a new network of companies conducting large financial operations. And the origin of the capital also raises questions.

Be that as it may, Dmytro Rukin, who just a couple of years ago actively placed image materials about himself and his new business in Spain and Latin America, and for some reason did this in Ukrainian publications, has once again disappeared from the radar.

Where he is now is not exactly known. Victo Postanova SL continues its activities, as do its subsidiaries in Brazil and Peru. Perhaps Dmytro Rukin himself has moved there too, away from the hands of Spanish justice, which is much harder to negotiate with than Ukrainian or Peruvian.

P.S. It was not possible to find in the public domain an agreement on the mutual extradition of criminals and suspects in criminal offenses between Spain and Peru. Most likely, no such agreement exists. Isn’t this the answer to the question of where exactly Dmytro Rukin has disappeared?