After the exposure of IBOX Bank’s schemes and Alyona Shevtsova being placed on an international wanted list, inconvenient information about her activities and financial operations began disappearing from the internet.
We are publishing material she is trying to hide — with details of the schemes, money flows, and facts explaining her hurried departure abroad.
The founder of the now-liquidated IBOX Bank is the controversial Alyona Shevtsova, who is also the owner of Financial Company Leo LLC.
This company is closely linked to IBOX Bank, through which “shadow” gambling payments were processed in March last year at the height of Russia’s full-scale invasion. As a result, Financial Company Leo LLC was placed under NSDC sanctions.
This is stated in Presidential Decree No. 145/2023 dated March 10, 2023.
According to unofficial sources, Alyona Shevtsova relocated to the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf coast, where she lives in villa apartments with annual rent exceeding $250,000. She was placed on an international wanted list as early as November 2023.
How Alyona Shevtsova organized illegal gambling operations
At one time, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) suspected Alyona Shevtsova and IBOX Bank managers of laundering money from drug trafficking. IBOX Bank developed a system that significantly simplified operations for drug dealers. Most payments for наркотики passed for years through its terminals, which were located in nearly every shopping center. In addition, gambling enthusiasts used mirror gambling sites to fund their accounts via IBOX Bank, often unaware that they were actually enriching Shevtsova.
The terminals displayed logos of well-known gambling brands, but all players’ funds were routed to companies controlled by Alyona Shevtsova. In a short period, through illegal gambling operations, Shevtsova allegedly laundered 4.8 billion hryvnias and failed to pay 7.2 billion hryvnias in taxes — funds that could have served as a significant financial buffer for the country during wartime.
It should be recalled that the illegal scheme involving Shevtsova was exposed by the SBU and the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) back in March 2023. Following searches and inspections by the National Bank of Ukraine, the assets of IBOX Bank were transferred to the Deposit Guarantee Fund.
How much does it cost to discredit a Deputy Prosecutor General
The suspicion against Alyona Shevtsova was personally signed by Deputy Prosecutor General Dmytro Verbytskyi. She is suspected under Part 2 of Article 203-2 and Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — illegal organization or conduct of gambling and legalization of criminal proceeds.
After that, she allegedly organized an information attack aimed at removing Verbytskyi from his position.
For a long time, unknown individuals monitored Prosecutor Verbytskyi, studying his lifestyle, social circle, and the people he spent time with.
According to the pre-trial investigation in the criminal case in which Alyona Shevtsova is a suspect, the state’s losses due to unpaid taxes amount to billions of hryvnias. Can the suspicion signed by the prosecutor be valued at 7.2 billion hryvnias? A rhetorical question.
How Khrystyna Ilnytska was used to discredit the prosecutor
Khrystyna Ilnytska is acquainted with Prosecutor Verbytskyi, who has long been close to her family and is well acquainted with her son.
Khrystyna herself has around a thousand followers on her Instagram page, most of whom are affluent individuals involved in the yachting business.
Shevtsova used the woman’s success as an opportunity for revenge against Verbytskyi.
To discredit Dmytro Verbytskyi, Shevtsova allegedly used her mother-in-law, Olena Dmytrivna Shevtsova, who owns the luxury Kyiv-based salon Leo Beauty Club Lypkivskogo.
For this purpose, unknown individuals reportedly monitored Khrystyna, her son, and Dmytro for a long time, recording on video all the places visited by Verbytskyi and Khrystyna. Shevtsova allegedly organized surveillance not only at a house in the elite cottage community “Konyk,” but also at the Leo Beauty Club Lypkivskogo salon.
Khrystyna personally received an offer from the Leo Beauty Club Lypkivskogo salon for complimentary beauty services in exchange for promoting the salon on her Instagram page, which remains a popular content platform.
Since Khrystyna’s page had a significant following and strong engagement, Shevtsova was confident she would agree to such cooperation. Leo Beauty Club is part of an international premium beauty salon network, and the offer of free services seemed attractive. Unaware of any ulterior motives, Khrystyna agreed.
Later, she received another proposal from the salon. Shevtsova personally contacted Khrystyna Ilnytska and invited not only her but also her friends to receive services at the salon.
That is exactly what happened. Shevtsova expected that Khrystyna would invite her acquaintance Dmytro Verbytskyi. A few visits by the Deputy Prosecutor General to the salon were intended to serve as grounds for publicly accusing him of receiving free services.
Initially, Khrystyna’s son appeared on surveillance cameras. Later, Verbytskyi himself was captured by specially installed cameras, after which he faced a wave of criticism and false accusations of misconduct.
However, Shevtsova did not stop there. Her plans to discredit Prosecutor Verbytskyi reportedly continued. Khrystyna was later offered promotional opportunities in the United Arab Emirates, with the expectation that Verbytskyi would travel to Dubai with her. And this was not the full extent of the schemes allegedly planned by Shevtsova.
Is there a moral in this story
The banality of the situation lies not only in the shortsightedness of the suspect Alyona Shevtsova, but also in her naïve belief that her plan of revenge against Verbytskyi, who accused her of a number of crimes, could be carried out as easily as laundering billions of hryvnias from the state.
