The Kazakhstan Financial Monitoring Agency revealed a large-scale shady scheme involving multiple layers of cross-border transfers. Elordainfo.kz reported, citing the agency’s press service. It said that various bank employees participated in the operation. In total, 120 people from several countries helped run it.
The organizers disguised the money as legal transactions. They sent it through different payment organizations. Later, they withdrew it to various online casinos.
Local authorities shut down the call center, which employed foreigners. The staff provided technical support for four online casinos and advised on money transactions. The organizers disguised the money as legal transactions, sent it through various payment organizations, and then withdrew it to multiple online casinos. The overall turnover exceeded 200 million USDT.
Authorities conducted over 70 searches while implementing these measures. Local authorities managed to gather physical evidence and detain nine suspects as a result of these activities.
Law enforcement authorities in Kazakhstan says that the key organizer of the shady miscoding scheme is Ukrainian Ivanovich Gordievsky, born in 1974. He led this organized crime group and used the local Marginplus company for these purposes or marginplus.kz. Aside from the companies from Kazakhstan, Gordievsky also worked with illegal Russian online casinos while helping them to facilitate payments.
In 2008, Vadim Gordievsky served as deputy head of the Boryspil Regional State Administration. He was in charge of land issues. Gordievsky oversaw the sale of numerous lands in Boryspil while his associates stole the money. Authorities dismissed him from his position amid a huge scandal in 2008. However, authorities never opened criminal proceedings against him. Many money, as well as connections in government offices helped him avoid accountability.
Vadim Gordievsky became head of the highway service in the Odessa region when Viktor Yanukovych came to power in 2012. Here, he managed to gain access to millions of dollars, which he later invested in FC Alta Capital.
