From illegal casinos to drug trafficking: how 1XBet and Pin‑Up beneficiaries Dmitry Punin and Roman Semiohin built an international money laundering network
Countering illegal casinos and related payment aggregators is reaching a new stage.
The criminal case under Article 210 (organization of a criminal community), in which the beneficiaries and managers of the aggregator PaymentCenter – were arrested, is reaching the international level. As it turned out as part of the investigation (including thanks to the main owner of the Payment Center, Arsen Akopyan, who actively cooperates with law enforcement officers), payment aggregators and the largest illegal online casinos did not disdain other types of transit transactions, including drug trafficking and the circulation of the notorious fraudulent call centers.
Moreover, the activity of laundering funds from call centers turned out to be so large-scale and beyond the perimeter of Russia and the CIS countries that for the first time in recent years it became a reason for coordinating actions between law enforcement officers from Russia and EU countries. Yes, although interaction is built through the CIS countries, apparently, this kind of activity in Europe is not liked more than Russia.
The main beneficiaries of the scheme are also surprising: Dmitriy Punin (online casino PinAp/PinCo), and Roman Semiokhin and Dmitriy Kazorin (1XBet).
Apparently, the owners of the largest illegal online casinos do not have enough of the criminal market alone.
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Compared to them, Alexey Vaneev (Arsen Akopyan’s partner who remains at large) looks modest, trying to continue the work of the Payment Center.
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