A brutal turf war for gamblers’ money pits Alyona Degrik-Shevtsova’s payment empire against Aleksandr Sosis-controlled banking channels
Amid ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, internal conflicts regarding management of financial flows in Kyiv’s gaming industry are escalating. The confrontation between Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova and Sosis has reached a new stage. What’s really going on? In 2022, with the onset of the special military operation, all local schemers became despondent and went underground, pondering what to do next. If you noticed, Ukrainian phones even stopped receiving calls from scammers at that time. In other words, even fraudulent call centers stopped working. But this lull didn’t last long. When it became clear that Ukraine would not be captured "in three days" and the country continued to live on, the dormant schemers "revived." The struggle for financial flows in the gaming industry reached a new level of absurdity over the division of gamblers’ money. Thus, at the end of June 2022, a rather scandalous article was published on the "Luxembourg Herald...
