Bank looting, mining, nuclear scams and the crypto empire White Rock Management: Sergey Tron erases evidence of his crimes from the internet

Billions of dollars stolen from the ruined City Commercial Bank were later found on mining farms and in other dubious operations run by Sergey Tron. He is a cryptocurrency fraudster with a questionable history who pretends to be a successful Bitcoin investor.

He is now waging an aggressive PR campaign and methodically clearing all incriminating evidence about his fraud from the Internet in order to launder the stolen money and gain trust on the eve of the possible legalization of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine.

We, in turn, are publishing an investigation that they are trying to remove from the public space in order to preserve the facts and show the real scale of Sergey Tron’s activities in international money laundering schemes.

Recently, a landmark event occurred in the financial world: the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, making investments in BTC more or less legal in the United States. The legalization of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine is still at the stage of consideration of relevant bills, but, obviously, the authorities intend to legalize the circulation of virtual assets in the country in order to be able to collect taxes from them. It is likely that in the foreseeable future «crypt» in Ukraine will become legal. And in the process of «, the dirty money hidden in it will be washed away.

Sergey Tron, owner of White Rock Management, is a crypto businessman with a dark past, one of the few who will benefit from this big «wash». Who is he?

Even if you are not at all interested in the cryptocurrency market, you have a huge chance of running into its name by simply leafing through the news feed.

Billions of dollars stolen from the ruined City Commercial Bank were later found on mining farms and in other dubious operations run by Sergey Tron. He is a cryptocurrency fraudster with a questionable history who pretends to be a successful Bitcoin investor.

As you can see, documents for registration were submitted by «board member » German citizen Oleg Tsyura.

Oleg Tsyura was behind ITS International Trade & Sourcing GmbH & Co from Dusseldorf (Germany) – as a key installation in the scandalous scheme with the supply of ilmenite from the Ukrainian state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company to the plant of the disgraced oligarch Firtash in Rashist-occupied Crimea. Oleg Tsyura «schematized» in the gasket at the same time as he sat on the board of White Rock Management AG until he left the latter in the summer of 2021.

If our information is correct, from 2021 until December last year, 2023, the board of directors was headed by the equally controversial, but much more famous character –, Italian citizen Giovanni Salvetti, who lived in Moscow.

Giovanni Salvetti

Giovanni Salvetti – managing director of the international banking group Rothschild in the CIS countries, a famous crypto enthusiast, a specialist in «blind trusts» for post-Soviet oligarchs and a family friend of the Belarusian impostor president Alexander Lukashenko.

With great caution, we can assume that Giovanni Salvetti, for a considerable fee, played the role of «wedding general in White Rock Management AG. The regalia of an Italian entering the Rothschild house gave an unprecedented prestige to a small Swiss company with a dozen staff.

Salvetti’s place on the board of «White Mountain» was taken by the man Tronya Alexander Voronov (in White Rock Management AG he appears as chief operating officer). Before this, Alexander Evgenievich Voronov worked as the general director of the investment fund «White Rock Investments», registered in Kyiv on Mechnikov Street.

According to registration data, the owner of 100% of the shares of the – fund is Sergey Nikolaevich Tron. This is not very important, but, as registers show, the key beneficiary of «schematosis», in which «White Rock Investments» was noticed, was Igor Voronov. This is Alexander’s uncle, with whom Sergey Tron also has common affairs. Therefore, it is possible that Alexander Voronov is playing here not in Tron’s team, but in the interests of his dad’s brother.

Alexander Voronov, nephew of Igor Voronov

So, according to Swiss registries, Tron-related characters begin to appear in the corporate structure of White Rock Management AG in 2021. In particular, in 2021, along with Salvetti, the company’s board of directors with two votes includes British citizen Andy Long, now listed on the official website of «White Mountain» as CEO.

Andy Long

And it is in 2021 that White Rock Management begins activities related to cryptocurrency mining. At least this is evidenced by «time line» on the main page of the company’s official website.

It turns out that until that time «White Mountain» was engaged in anything, but not virtual assets. And Sergey Tron was initially neither the founder nor the owner of White Rock Management.

In Swiss registries, information about the current ultimate beneficiaries of the company is closed – these are the laws there. But the laws of Ukraine oblige the disclosure of ultimate beneficiaries, and thanks to Ukrainian registers it is reliably known that de jure the owner of White Rock Management AG – is not Sergey Tron.

Also in 2021, «White Rock Management Ukraine» LLC was founded at the mass registration address in Kyiv with an authorized capital of 100 thousand UAH. The founder with 100% of the authorized capital was White Rock Management AG, and the final beneficiaries are the owners (at least de jure) of the Swiss company –, Liechtenstein citizens Clemens Gregor Laternser and Andrian Roman Reinberger.

Anton Cherednichenko was listed as the general director of the Ukrainian «Belaya Gora» from its founding until the summer of 2022. A person with the same name is listed as the chief technical officer of White Rock Management AG on the company’s official website.

Anton Cherednichenko

Sergey Tron is de jure absent from the corporate structure of «White Rock Management Ukraine», as well as from the structure of White Rock Management AG.

In the summer of 2022, «White Rock Management Ukraine» was re-registered as «BTS Media Ukraine», the LLC is changing its type of activity from «computer equipment management» to «edition of » magazines. It is declared that the company will begin publishing Ukrainian localization of the virtual asset magazine Bitcoin Magazine. Sergey Tron calls himself a partner and investor in the project in public, but never appeared in the corporate structure of the legal entity-publisher. The founders, investors and beneficiaries there remain the Liechtensteiners behind White Rock Management AG.

By the way, about them. In addition to «White Rock Management Ukraine», which has been retrained as a publishing house, they own another company here. Through the Cypriot offshore Ambassador Limited, they are the ultimate beneficiaries of «Redutna Estate» LLC, which specializes in real estate. General Director of this real estate office – Denis Volobuev. This name will appear a couple more times as the story progresses.

In the meantime, let’s draw a line under this chapter of our narrative.

Sergey Tron, in his final interview for 2023, posted by Forbes Ukraine on a commercial basis, radiated optimism about his company.

According to him, «White Rock Management’s revenue in 2022 doubled by more than $200 million – compared to 2021 (i.e., to $400 million – author’s note). The company has data centers on three continents and is 99.9% renewable energy. The secret of White Rock –’s success is its deep analysis of the experience of the largest cryptorink players, its hybrid business model and financing only with the funds of the founder, without loans».

But we cannot take Sergey Nikolaevich’s word for it.

Here he claims «White Rock» data centers on three continents (that is, the company has at least three mining sites), but on the official White Rock Management website only two – are mentioned in Texas (USA) and somewhere in Sweden. In 2021, Sergey Tron triumphantly announced the opening of a powerful (as much as 100 MW) data center in Kazakhstan with mining equipment worth $200 million. But this mega-farm disappeared somewhere without starting to work.

Sergey Tron also voiced White Rock Management’s plans to begin mining in Canada and South America. Alas... Moreover, «White Mountain» avoids indicating the exact location of its supposedly precisely existing mining farms (in Texas and Sweden), publishing only photographs of some locations in industrial zones.

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«White Rock Management» is a non-public company, it does not publish financial statements in the public domain, and does not undergo audit. Sergey Tron calls himself its founder, but this – is not true; strangers are registered as the owners of the authorized capital. The – revenue figures he announced are most likely just beautiful words. And we can only guess whose ears they are intended for.

Impressed by the scale of Sergey Nikolaevich’s deceit, we can come to the conclusion that White Rock Management – is a complete fake, and Sergey Tron himself does not know a damn thing about virtual assets in general, or BTC mining in particular. As for the last assumption, this is far from the case. Our subject is by no means new to Bitcoin mining.

«Crypto-copanks» for half a billion, a cracker at customs and the Russian mafia in the USA

In March 2018, the Odessa Regional Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigation Department of the State Fiscal Service, with the support of the SBU, began an investigation into large-scale schematosis at Odessa customs. Criminal proceedings №32018160000000026 began with several episodes of the import of large quantities of second-hand goods into the country, bypassing customs rules, and led to smuggling on an astronomical scale. But after a year and a half of investigation, the proceedings were curtailed and the criminal case was buried.

In this unsuccessful investigation, we are interested in one episode. On December 11, 2018, SBU operatives at the customs post «Black Sea» of Odessa customs «stopped a truck filled with mining equipment (during inspection, 768 system units were found in it). The documents for the goods were by no means in perfect order, in particular, the incorrect TNVED code was indicated. And its owner carefully destroyed the serial numbers on the equipment.

The owner of the detained mining machines was identified as Kiev LLC «VIM Ukraine». At the time of the events described, its ultimate beneficiary through the Estonian WEM Global OU was... Can you guess who? Of course, the main character of this article is Sergey Tron.

According to «SSB officers», the Tronya company was going to take the mining equipment detained in Odessa to Kazakhstan. But the point is not where the equipment was sent, but how it got to Ukraine.

According to the investigation data reflected in one of the court decisions, during May – November 2018, «VIM Ukraine» (count Sergey Tron) imported cryptocurrency mining equipment worth 557 million (!) into Ukraine grn. With the connivance of customs officers, our miner illegally registered the import of several thousand mining machines in temporary import mode, thus throwing «the state budget for about 50 million UAH of unpaid duty.

As far as we know, at least some of the mining equipment for the Bitcoin Tron on the territory of the «Park» data center in the very center of the capital. This conclusion can be drawn from some publications in the media.

Date center «Park»

The «Ante Media» data center «Park», also known as the «Yanukovych» heliport, was built, it is believed, with the money of the corrupt entourage of the fourth president, who betrayed his homeland with Putin.

During the period when Sergey Tron mined «bit» in «Park», the main owner of the data center (70%) was a certain Yuri Loik. He was then listed as the director of «VIM Ukraine», through which Tron mined cryptocurrency.

Loic also has a stake in «Allotis» LLC, which specializes in computers and software. We would not have mentioned this circumstance if we had not discovered one infernal character among the co-owners of this company. According to the registration data of «Allotis», 20% of the authorized capital of the LLC belongs to a certain Semen Kislin, who lives on Broadway in New York.

Semen Kislin

Information: Semen Kislin, aka Sam Kislin

The FBI associates the founder of Trans Commodities in the USA, a native of Odessa, Sam (Semen) Kislin, with the late Ivankov (Yaponchik) from the Solntsevskaya organized crime group and brothers Mikhail and Lev Cherny (Izmailovskaya organized crime group). Kislin did not hide his friendship with the Cherny brothers and, on the contrary, proudly talked about it in an interview with NTV. Kislin’s companies acted as a co-sponsor of the visa of Anton Malevsky, the leader of the Izmailovskaya organized crime group, and also served to pump money by Mikhail Cherny (Cherny was wanted by Interpol from 2009 to 2016). Kislin’s name surfaced at the trial of Mikhail Cherny against Oleg Deripaska in London. The court concluded that Kislin conducted his business trading with Russia through Trans Commodities thanks to Cherny’s contacts, and not vice versa. Kislin’s nephew (Arnold Kislin) was also accused of raider takeovers of enterprises of the Izmailovskaya organized crime group and bribes to Russian officials (a lawsuit in the United States against him with these charges was filed by entrepreneurs Mikhail Zhivilo and Jalol Khaidarov).

Sam Kislin is also known as an associate and donor of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (which he is very proud of), an adviser to former US President Donald Trump, and it was he who reportedly tried to organize pressure on the Ukrainian law enforcement system in order to launch an investigation into Joe Biden’s son.

It turns out that Sergey Tron is connected through at least one handshake with a seasoned Russian mafioso from the USA. This, however, is not so important, but Yuri Loik is not Tron’s only connection with Kislin.

However, everything is in order.

Black hole in «City Commercial Bank»

«All investments in White Rock Management – are my net worth. This is several hundred million dollars at the initial stage of», said Sergey Tron in his recent interview with Forbes Ukraine.

Okay, let’s try to take his word for it and assume that he took money for mining farms, hundreds of millions of dollars (which is billions of hryvnia in exchange rate terms) from his pocket. Let’s try to figure out where he could get «equity».

In last year’s note, which Sergey Tron embossed into the Bitcoin Magazine he fed, you can read the following pompous nonsense:

«When Tron was 22 years old, his father passed away, leaving him as the family’s primary breadwinner. By 2010, his company operated 120 gas stations and five oil depots near Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. He invested in oil tank cleaning technology and sold the produced sludge».

I dare to note that a couple of inaccuracies crept into this paragraph of the publication. Firstly, Tronya’s company did not clean oil tanks of sediment, but the country’s budget of money. Secondly, the company was not exactly Tronya – he was a junior partner in it.

We are talking about Donetsk LLC «Ecooil». Tron still owns 33% of the authorized capital. The rest, the lion’s share, was and is with Nurulislam and Roman Arkallaev. What is noteworthy is that the general director of «Ecooil», according to registration data, is still Denis Volobuev – as stated above, he also manages the Kiev LLC «Redutna Estate», the ultimate beneficiaries of which are the Liechtensteiners, who nominally own the Swiss White Rock Management.

Nurulislam Arkallaev

Nurulislam Arkallaev, as the old ORD slander, in his youth was a member of the organized crime group «Lux», in the dashing «nineties» was known in gangster Donetsk under «as the filthy» Nurik. He matured, settled down, acquired businesses, joined the «Party of Regions», from which he became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada three times.

Actually, the coming to power of party leader Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 allowed the company of his accomplice Arkallaev, to whom young Sergey Tron then joined, to pump astronomical sums of «money» through state tenders. Only in 2011, «Ecooil» received almost a billion hryvnia from the supply of fuel to the army and «Ukrzaliznytsia».

Read more «humorrescu» in Bitcoin Magazine:

«As his financial transactions grew, Tronya attracted banking, and in 2011 Sergey Tron invested in CityCommerce Bank and quickly expanded its presence from 40 to 185 branches. By this time, the capitalization of all his enterprises was almost $1 billion».

Let’s leave out the capitalization of a billion American dollars – there is no documentary evidence that Sergey Tron was ever worth that kind of money. But we will focus on CityCommerce Bank (aka «City Commercial Bank») separately.

We outlined the true history of this financial institution, ruined by its own owners, several years ago. And here it makes sense to retell it with some abbreviations.

In 2011, 100% of the shares of the bank, which would later become «Citicommers», were not bought by Sergey Tron. The vegetative financial institution, which then operated under the guise of «Conversebank», was acquired by Vladimir Antonov, an ambitious and thieving Russian billionaire. According to him, he allocated 50 million euros from his own «bins for the development of the financial institution’s credit business. However, Antonov soon fell into trouble: the Lithuanian authorities accused him of deliberately bankrupting his Snoras bank and stealing €480 million. Antonov, who was in Kyiv at that time, issued a power of attorney to manage «Conversebank» to his friend Reinis Tumovs –, a native of Magadan who had long settled in Odessa. And he himself went on the run.

Vladimir Antonov

Rainis Tumovs decided to take advantage of the fact that his «bro» suffered a difficult fate to fuck both his comrade and his bank. For this business, he found two partners – Nurulislam Arkallaev and Sergey Tron.

Antonov’s bank was finally squeezed out by «» in August 2012. «Conversebank» changed its sign to «City Commercial Bank», its controlling stake was transferred to LLC «Global Financial Management Group», the authorized capital of which was distributed among offshore companies (mainly from Belize). However, it has never been a secret to the National Bank that the ultimate beneficiaries of «Citicomers» are Arkallaev Nurulislam Gadzhievich, Tron Sergey Nikolaevich and Tumovs Reinis Aivarsovich.

Rainis Tumovs

One of the participants in the banking market, on condition of anonymity, then told Forbes magazine: «I think that [this] bank took part in specific services. His branch network, which collected funds from the population, invested money in shareholder projects».

Translated from banking into human, «specific services» means «conversion», that is, money laundering. Let us note that during the era of Yanukovych’s rule, it was impossible to convert money without connections with the «family».

There is reason to suspect that Sergey Tron, Nurulislam Arkallaev and Renis Tumovs initially did not intend to engage in normal banking business. Perhaps «bankers» set themselves the goal of filling the cash register to capacity, gutting it and «making legs». The popular uprising in the winter of 2014 and the Russian-Ukrainian war that followed provoked an economic crisis. It became clear that «should have taken the box office» already.

Our bankers began to drain all real money «onto front commercial structures, through which the funds were instantly converted and disappeared in an unknown direction.

At the end of 2014, the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) revealed the theft of assets in the «City Commercial Bank» worth UAH 3 billion. CityCommerce Bank turned out to be one of the most illiquid institutions that the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) began to withdraw from the market during that period. By the time the temporary administration was introduced into it on November 21, 2014, the institution’s assets exceeded UAH 3.9 billion. Subsequent analysis of the reporting showed that the total damage from the actions of the bank’s former owners and managers reaches UAH 3 billion.

«At the time of the transfer of the bank to the Fund, its assets amounted to UAH 3.9 billion, of which UAH 2.6 billion – loan portfolio. At the same time, the estimated value of the assets was only UAH 90 million, and the loan portfolio was UAH 40 million. I think their real cost is even lower», – was said then by Andrey Olenchik, Deputy Managing Director of the FGVFL.

According to him, the Fund submitted 29 applications to law enforcement agencies for UAH 3 billion. «For 26 applications worth UAH 1.8 billion, criminal proceedings have already begun», – said Andrey Olenchik. Most cases were investigated under articles «Fraud» and «Abuse of official position».

The portfolio of the City Commercial Bank also included illiquid collateral, which is now located in territories not controlled by Ukraine. For example, on April 29, 2014, PJSC «Garant-Auto» pledged premises in Donetsk to «Beverly Rox» LLC for a loan in the amount of UAH 45 million. It is noteworthy that the deputy chairman of the board of PJSC «Garant-Auto» was Mikhail Pryanichnikov, who since 2012 held the position of director of the strategy and control department of LLC «Global Financial Management Group», which is the nominal owner of the City Commercial Bank. He was also a member of the supervisory board of «ProFin Bank».

Funds were also withdrawn from the bank through foreign structures, for example, the Austrian Meinl Bank. A letter to the GPU signed by temporary administrator Andrei Ryazantsev states that the day after the introduction of the administration, according to accounting data, there were 59.35 million euros in the correspondent account «of the City Commercial Bank» in Meinl Bank. On November 26, on behalf of the administrator, 10 thousand euros from the correspondent account were transferred to Raiffeisen Bank International. After this, a demand was sent to Meinl Bank to transfer another 100 thousand euros, but the transaction was rejected due to the fact that «City Commercial Bank» had a debt of 10 thousand euros. «Considering that there were 59.35 million euros in the account with Meinl Bank, as well as the fact that any account movements in the bank’s operating system are not reflected, we can conclude that the account was manipulated by the management of «City Commercial Bank» with correspondent account in Meinl Bank», – it was said in a statement to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In 2018, the Deposit Guarantee Fund tried through the court to recover from Tron, Arkallaev, Tumovs and other participants in the «scheme» UAH 2.573 billion stolen from the «City Commercial Bank». But the Economic Court of Kyiv refused the Fund for formal reasons.

As for the investigation of criminal cases of fraud at CityCommerce Bank, only one episode is reliably known, which has reached the court in ten years. We are talking about the scheme described just above for withdrawing UAH 90 million through Meinl Bank. The accused in the trial are two – former president of the bank and its shareholder Reinys Tumovs, as well as the then head of the board of – Dmitriy Grabovetskiy.

However, court hearings are held with an empty dock, since the accused have been successfully hiding from Ukrainian justice for a long time. Reinys Tumovs lay low in Latvia, and Dmitriy Grabovetskiy acquired citizenship of an aggressor country and settled in occupied Crimea, where he gradually continues to engage in his favorite banking business.

Sergey Tron, Nurulislam Arkallaev and his brother Roman somehow miraculously escaped accusations of participating in the looting of CityCommerce Bank, despite the fact that in criminal schemes they were clearly not naive extras. Quite the opposite.

One way or another, the name Tronya, although he calls himself almost the creator and sole owner of the «City Commercial Bank», did not emerge for a long time in the context of the looting of a financial institution. There are rumors that the blindness of law enforcement officers and silence in the media at one time cost Tron and his senior partners an astronomical amount. But let us emphasize once again: these are just rumors.

So. If our hero’s words that Sergey Tron built his mining business on his own capital are at least partially true, then we now have a general idea of the origin of this by no means considerable money. They were apparently stolen from the «City Commercial Bank».

Irradiation with Russian atom

White Rock Management and the mining of «bits» seems to be Sergey Tron’s personal business initiative, to which he also likely attracted money from senior partners. But Sergey Tron took direct part in larger schemes, the creators of which were much more significant players.

For example.

In a number of online publications of the third echelon recently, «remembers with a kindly quiet word» Tron’s participation in the adventure with the company «UkrTVS». But they don’t reveal, so to speak, the full depth of the game.

And here you need a little history.

Full name «UkrTVS» - PJSC «Joint Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian enterprise for the production of nuclear fuel». It was created back in 2001 by the State Property Fund of Ukraine, the Russian OJSC TVEL and CJSC «National Nuclear Company «Kazatomprom» (Kazakhstan). The purpose of creating «UkrTVS» was to produce nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Russia has never been interested in this, so the Russian TVEL successfully sabotaged the creation of such a production for decades – in «UkrTVS» he was a «Trojan horse».

It is important here that back in the 1990s, the US State Department carefully pushed Kyiv towards energy independence from a vibrant Russia. As a result, an alternative supplier of nuclear fuel for Ukraine – appeared, the American company Westinghouse Electric.

Under pro-Western President Yushchenko, in 2008-2009, Westinghouse Electric proposed building a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine. The idea of building a plant was liked by the entourage of the next president –, pro-Russian Yanukovych. And in 2010, the right to build the plant was given to the Russian TVEL.

The following year, 2011, TVEL and FGI created PJSC «Nuclear Fuel Production Plant» (no one was going to build the plant as such, since this, I repeat, has always contradicted the economic and geopolitical interests of Russia).

After the Revolution of Dignity in the winter of 2014, Russia began armed intervention and occupation of Ukrainian territories. On the Pechersk Hills they clearly realized that if a nuclear power plant depends on enemy fuel, there can be no talk of any energy security. And they rushed into the arms of Westinghouse Electric with redoubled zeal. Enemy agents of influence began to work with even greater zeal.

In the summer of 2017, the State Property Fund suddenly decided to sell its stake in «UkrTVS». For almost UAH 48 million, it was bought by «Weiss Trade» LLC, founded in 2014 by a certain Andrey Kirimov from Gorishni Plavny. The firm has always specialized in the timber trade.

At first, no one understood what it was or who needed it. But a year later, in the summer of 2018, members of the board of «UkrTVS» from «Weiss Trade» appeared on stage. These were Sergey Tron (who later became the head of the board of «UkrTVS») and Nurulislam Arkallaev, as well as Leonid Kryuchkov, who were already familiar to us.

Leonid Kryuchkov

We will dwell on the latter separately.

As ZN.UA wrote, the most curious figure in the context of nuclear issues is Leonid Kryuchkov, whose older brother –, former people’s deputy from BYuT Dmitriy Kryuchkov, was a defendant in NABU criminal proceedings on multimillion-dollar thefts in energy networks.

Dmitriy Kryuchkov

The younger Kryuchkov, apparently, is also an extraordinary and versatile personality. Leonid Kryuchkov also managed to work in the arms business with Pshonka Jr.; and together with his brother, make friends and work with the influential Kremlin Agent Andrey Derkach (one of the main lobbyists for «Rosatom» and TVEL in Ukraine) when he was the head of «Energoatom». As «Our pennies» wrote, the Kryuchkov brothers «became known as businessmen who were lobbied into state-owned energy enterprises by the first deputy head of the BPP parliamentary faction, Igor Kononenko, a business partner of President Petro Poroshenko».

ZN.UA, with reference to Gazeta.UA, wrote that on May 30, 2018, «Weiss Trade» LLC, as the owner of the Ukrainian share in «UkrTVS», addressed the Cabinet of Ministers with a letter in which «testified that society and its partners have the necessary financial resources, experience and business connections» to implement the «ambitious goal» - the construction of a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine. In this connection, the company proposed to negotiate with it as a potential investor«for the implementation of this project. The project manager was announced as Jomart Aliyev –, a former top manager from the structure «of Rosatom».

After the completion of the construction of the announced «plant, UkrTVS» allegedly planned to transfer it to JV «Nuclear Fuel Plant» (half of which is controlled by the Russians) and receive a percentage or fixed amount from each unit of production sold. From the Cabinet of Ministers, our nuclear combinators wanted to receive a guarantee that the fuel produced at the Ukrainian plant would be completely purchased by NAEC «Energoatom».

If the government had succumbed to pressure from an influential lobby and agreed to the «tempting» proposal of Tron, Arkallaev and Kryuchkov, naturally, it would not have built any plant in Ukraine. But relations with Westinghouse would be extremely damaged, and Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which generate more than half of the country’s electricity, could be left without fuel at all.

The government decided to nip this multi-step move in the bud. «Energoatom» took advantage of the fact that «UkrTVS» had huge debts to it, and began legal proceedings for bankruptcy and liquidation of the company.

But in 2019, the government in Ukraine is changing and the «nuclear scheme» has a new chance. However, a little about what preceded it.

On the eve of the presidential elections in Ukraine, TV channel 1+1 released an interview with Moldovan businessman Renato Usatii that Poroshenko killed his own brother. Another «American» businessman, already familiar to us Sam Kislin, with whom Sergey Tron is connected through at least one handshake, in pure Russian accused Poroshenko of stealing no less than $8 billion.

Semen Kislin, in his address to «patriots of Ukraine» dated March 23, 2019, stated:

«I’m an American businessman... Corruption permeated the entire top of power, from the Prosecutor General to President Poroshenko... Poroshenko and his gang earn one hundred dollars from each ton of coal. Poroshenko pocketed about $8 billion. The atrocities of Poroshenko and his gang will not go unpunished. I know that in the United States they are accused of large-scale theft of budget funds from American financial assistance. As a witness, I testified in this case».

In an interview with Russian propagandists on NTV, Kislin admitted that it was he who convinced Giuliani to advise Trump to spin a story about corruption in Ukraine.

Kislin also had his own selfish interest in involving Giuliani and Trump in promoting this case. His motivation is to return assets frozen in Ukraine under Poroshenko as part of the search for Yanukovych’s money (the offended Kislin in an interview paradoxically calls the confiscation of Yanukovych’s assets «an act of corruption»).

Apparently, this is what we are talking about: in 2014, Kislin bought the Cypriot company Opalcore Ltd for $8 million at a discount. Her Ukrainian bank accounts contained bond bonds worth $20 million and were under arrest. Along with interest, about $23 million accrued. But he did not receive the money – these funds were confiscated by the verdict of the Kramatorsk court in the Yanukovych case. While Poroshenko was in power, Kislin was silent, but then, having established communication with Zelensky through the diaspora, he sharply became more active.

In August 2019, he suddenly came to Ukraine and began giving interviews, positioning himself as an anti-corruption fighter. At the same time, in Kiev, in the frame behind the «wrestler», you can see Dmitriy Kryuchkov (in a white shirt) — of a defendant in the criminal case of misappropriation of Zaporozhyeoblenergo and causing damage to Ukraine in the amount of 346 million hryvnia, opened by NABU.

Sam Kislin and Dmitriy Kryuchkov

«The hit in the frame is not accidental, Kryuchkov and Kislin had a meeting, after leaving which Sam decided to show off in front of journalists», — a source in Kyiv close to the investigative authorities told The Insider.

A few months earlier, Kryuchkov was extradited from Germany to Ukraine. After Zelensky won the elections, Dmitriy Kryuchkov during the investigation agreed to a simplified justice procedure with an admission of guilt and minimal consequences. During the investigation, he stated that he followed the instructions of Poroshenko’s entourage, and he himself was not guilty of anything.

The change of power in Ukraine benefited both Semen Kislin himself and his Ukrainian partners. Beneficiaries of «UkrTVS» managed to achieve the abolition of bankruptcy proceedings in 2020, and they even began a new cautious campaign to persuade the authorities to cooperate. Tronem launched a narrative into the information space that dependence on nuclear fuel supplies, either from Russia or from the USA –, is bad, you need to produce your own. Although «of its» meant the licensed assembly of fuel cells from Russian components.

It seems that at the beginning of 2022, something began to happen in «UkrTVS». This is evidenced by the fact that the Ukrainian shareholder «UkrTVS» – of the company «Weiss Trade» changes founder on 02/22/2022. He becomes Denis Volobuev – as mentioned above, manager of structures associated with Tron and Arkallaev.

Previously, Ukrainian shareholders of «UkrTVS» claimed that they would buy their share from the Russians, but were in no hurry to do so. Until the Russians made their move on February 24, 2022. Soon, the Russian share in «UkrTVS», like all the assets of the aggressor country in Ukraine, was arrested by the authorities as part of a large-scale case of financing armed aggression.