“The commercial court of the city of Kyiv collected more than UAH 9.5 million for the benefit of the state budget from “Aifar Group” LLC, which did not pay for the gambling license.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
The commercial court of the city of Kyiv collected more than UAH 9.5 million for the benefit of the state budget from “Aifar Group” LLC, which did not pay for the gambling license. This is evidenced by the court decision of December 21. In 2021 and early 2022, the Gambling and Lotteries Regulatory Commission (CRAIL) issued gambling operator Ayfar Group LLC licenses for slot machines, licenses for gaming tables, and licenses for gaming tables with a roulette ring. The company must pay for them in a timely manner. After the start of a full-scale war, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution according to which the annual fees for licenses for each year of its validity that have not been paid before the date of entry into force of this resolution shall be paid within thirty days. Advertisement: At the same time, “Aifar Group” did not pay the annual fee for the issued licenses. Therefore, KRAIL canceled the licenses in August 2023. As a result, the court charged the state budget with UAH 9.05 million in debt, inflationary losses in the amount of UAH 292,000 and UAH 293,000 at 3% per annum. According to youcontrol, the founders of “Aifar Group” are KOLLAKS B.V.I. (Netherlands, country of registration: Curaçao) with the main share and head Dmytro Lizenko. Advertising: As reported by “Slidstvo.Info”, “Aifar Group” LLC (the owner of the casino in the “Dnipro” hotel, whose buyers were associated with businessman Maksym Krippa) demonstrated for 2023, 28 million hryvnias of extortion and 221 million hryvnias of losses. The company owns TM Golden Gate Casino and GG. The Cypriot company Brivio Limited owns other TM Golden Gate Casino and GG in an almost identical graphic design. She has the rights to TM GGSlots, GGLoto, GGBet. GGBet LLC has a license to conduct betting business (rates — ed) under the GGBet TM. Petro Viktorovych Kozyrev formally owns the company together with GGBet Holding LLC. He is the nominal beneficiary of the Cypriot company Terasida LTD, which is listed in the Ukrainian register among the founders of “HGBet”. Ukrainian Forbes wrote about the fact that GGBet belongs directly to Maksym Krippi with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. However, Crippa’s press service denied these statements at the time. Read also: The new oligarch or Kurchenko-2. Who is Maxim Krippa and where does he get his money? We will remind: This year Maksym Krippa bought the hotel “Ukraine” in the center of Kyiv. In 2023, Krippa bought the capital business center “Parus” from Vadym Stolar, in 2020 – the hotel “Dnipro” on the street. Khreschatyk in Kyiv at the State Property Fund of Ukraine In July 2022, Crippa became famous thanks to the acquisition of the e-sports club, the world champion, NAVI. Forbes reported that the agreement on the transfer of rights to NAVI took place back in 2018. Later it became known that Crippa acquired the STALKER game development company – GSC Game World. In 2023, a new media group was formed in Ukraine – the online publication “Glavkom” became the property of Tetyana Snopko. Half a year before, Snopko acquired the media holding “Economy+”, which includes the publications Delo.ua, TOP-100, Wo.mo and Marketing Media Review. Sources in the media market told the EP that businessman Maksym Krippa is behind the agreements for the acquisition of news sites, and Snopko is the nominal owner of the assets. In addition, Krippa was an assistant to people’s deputies three times on public grounds – Ivan Bokoy from the Socialist Party in 2006-2007, Valery Babenka from BYU in 2007-2012, and Ruslan Lukyanchuk from BYU in 2007-2012. The last two, according to UP, were part of Oleksandr Turchynov’s influence group. Lukyanchuk was characterized as the “treasurer of the Tymoshenko Bloc.”