A network of "cash-out" operators with a Russian trace: Strelkovskyi, former officials, and major business players

A network of "cash-out" operators with a Russian trace: Strelkovskyi, former officials, and major business players

Vyacheslav Strelkovskyi, referred to in the media as "Mr. Cashout," along with his wife Diana, is involved in a number of criminal proceedings related to tax fraud and VAT evasion schemes.

In these cases, which have been under investigation since 2010, companies co-owned by the Strelkovskyi couple — citizens of the Russian Federation — are mentioned.

Investigators also found that large Ukrainian companies are implicated in these cases: structures of Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK group, Fozzi Group, WOG gas station network, and the mobile operator "Kyivstar." However, despite the presence of dozens of proceedings, the Strelkovskyi couple themselves are not yet suspects.

Strelkovskyi is allegedly part of the influential "Cashout Group" — an informal association of former high-ranking officials and businessmen, associated with large-scale money laundering. According to sources, this group includes:

• Serhiy Verlanov — former head of the State Fiscal Service;

• Oleksiy Lyubchenko — former head of the State Tax Service and Minister of Economy;

• Yuriy Kolobov — former Minister of Finance;

• Yuriy Kryhan — former State Tax Service official;

• Vyacheslav Sobolyev — top manager at Naftogaz of Ukraine;

• Vitaliy Shtepenko — beneficiary of "Alliance-Security";

• Yevheniy Kostyanyi — beneficiary of "Taershop Service";

• Iryna Sikorska — head of "Transmedtechnika";

• Nataliya Vinichenko — co-founder of a charitable foundation;

• Nataliya Likhuta — accountant.

Interestingly, Kyiv’s Central Bus Station is also controlled by structures associated with this network. In Dnipro, according to sources, Oksana Videnska operates under "cashout" schemes — a person from the orbit of raider Vladyslav Dreher, who also allegedly helps collaborators to withdraw seized assets through bankruptcies and arbitration.