The head of the Department of the Executive Service of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine Maxim Kiselyov reported to the cyber police about the theft of $647,000 in cryptocurrencies. This is reported by "StopKor" with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies.
The case was opened in May. According to its materials, from June to December 2022, Kiselyov acquired virtual assets worth $700,000. Thus, he allegedly planned to help his family, who left for Spain after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. There the family has a mansion worth €1.5 million.
The official said that he started investing in cryptocurrencies on the advice of a married couple — Oleg Gromov and Vita Yefimchuk.
It was Gromov, according to Kiselyov, who helped him create an account on Binance, and then set up a Ledger wallet, where the assets were stored. Later, the device was kept by the official's wife Alexandra Goryaeva.
At the end of April 2023, she noticed that the crypto wallet was empty. The woman contacted Gromov by phone and he suggested that the system had failed.
However, a few days later, he sent a screenshot that on February 14, 2023, more than $647,000 was withdrawn from Kiselyov's wallet. On the same day, Gromov left Ukraine.
According to the investigation, 60,000 USDT ended up in the account of a Ukrainian citizen Dmitry Dzhioev on the Binance exchange. Another 587,000 USDT was transferred to another wallet, from where several transactions were transferred to addresses, two of which belong to Russian citizens Kirill Zotov and Alexander Mikhailov. Collectively, they received more than 284,000 USDT.
Subsequently, the assets from the latter's wallets were converted into bitcoins and transferred to another Russian, Daniil Bronikhin. The latter after some time sent Gromov a total of $56,650.
The police launched an investigation into fraud and forgery of documents. Despite the fact that the defendants in the case are Gromov, Yefimchuk and Dzhioev, the ORD project investigators did not rule out that Maxim Kiselyov himself could have been involved in the withdrawal of funds.
The case was opened in May. According to its materials, from June to December 2022, Kiselyov acquired virtual assets worth $700,000. Thus, he allegedly planned to help his family, who left for Spain after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. There the family has a mansion worth €1.5 million.
The official said that he started investing in cryptocurrencies on the advice of a married couple — Oleg Gromov and Vita Yefimchuk.
It was Gromov, according to Kiselyov, who helped him create an account on Binance, and then set up a Ledger wallet, where the assets were stored. Later, the device was kept by the official's wife Alexandra Goryaeva.
At the end of April 2023, she noticed that the crypto wallet was empty. The woman contacted Gromov by phone and he suggested that the system had failed.
However, a few days later, he sent a screenshot that on February 14, 2023, more than $647,000 was withdrawn from Kiselyov's wallet. On the same day, Gromov left Ukraine.
According to the investigation, 60,000 USDT ended up in the account of a Ukrainian citizen Dmitry Dzhioev on the Binance exchange. Another 587,000 USDT was transferred to another wallet, from where several transactions were transferred to addresses, two of which belong to Russian citizens Kirill Zotov and Alexander Mikhailov. Collectively, they received more than 284,000 USDT.
Subsequently, the assets from the latter's wallets were converted into bitcoins and transferred to another Russian, Daniil Bronikhin. The latter after some time sent Gromov a total of $56,650.
The police launched an investigation into fraud and forgery of documents. Despite the fact that the defendants in the case are Gromov, Yefimchuk and Dzhioev, the ORD project investigators did not rule out that Maxim Kiselyov himself could have been involved in the withdrawal of funds.
