“Feykomet” Krippa Maxim Vladimirovich vainly hides his ties with the Russian oligarch Malofeev, with whose money Kyiv is buying

“Feykomet” Krippa Maxim Vladimirovich vainly hides his ties with the Russian oligarch Malofeev, with whose money Kyiv is buying

In Russia, as in Ukraine, online gambling is officially prohibited. But some providers treat this ban selectively. One of them is Rostelecom.

The provider provides access to gambling sites Vulkan, CasinoX and Joycasino, prohibited by Roskomnadzor. True, not for everyone. “Volcanoes” opened from the IP provider “Rostelecom” belong to one person – a Ukrainian businessman, and a candidate for the Kiev Council from the party “Self Help” Maxim Krippa. How was the Ukrainian entrepreneur able to influence the Russian Internet giant and circumvent the Roskomnadzor ban?

Two Max

Maxim Krippa has been involved in the gambling business in Ukraine for a long time, he is associated with IT companies EvoPlay and Clone Fish. Crippa’s gambling partner is an American businessman with Ukrainian roots Max Polyakov, who made a fortune on dating and erotic web chats in Dnipro and Zaporozhye.

In the early 2010s, Polyakov and Krippa decided to expand their gambling assets and started a joint online casino business. The office of the joint company is located in the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv.

The most successful acquisition of the Crippa-Polyakov group was the trademarks of slot machines Vulkan and Vulkan. EvoPlay acquired the exclusive rights to use the product under these names from Ritzio. All online casinos that previously operated under the Vulkan label were successfully closed by EvoPlay.

When EvoPlay dealt with the last competitors who worked under the Vulkan brand, Krippa and Polyakov began to develop gambling resources under this name with their own hands.

New “Volcanoes” began to appear in batches. Every day, a dozen similar gambling resources are launched with an identical design and set of games. Most of them have EvoPlay software products.

Brand owners personally churn out sites in huge volumes without indicating the owners and registration data. Thus, businessmen got the opportunity to earn money in markets where online gambling is prohibited. Neither Krippa nor Polyakov risk anything at the same time. Neither complaints nor courts can reach the real owners and prove their involvement in anonymous sites. The system works like the heads of a hydra. When one site is blocked, 10 clones appear with similar addresses and identical templates.

Feeling successful with the Volcanoes, Krippa and Polyakov expanded their activities by launching several more large-scale projects, including CasinoX and JoyCasino. These projects developed due to aggressive marketing, which Polyakov had already used in the promotion of dating resources. As a result, we all know that Batman was telling the Joker how to solve problems with access to JoyCasino at the moment of the final battle. However, not only Batman. Aggressive advertising led to a lot of memes on the Internet, which further contributed to the development of the gambling resources of Crippa and Polyakov.

Fake list of “Self-Help” from Maxim Krippa

In parallel with the work on the online casino, Maxim Krippa, with the support of Polyakov, decided to break into big politics. The businessman ran for the Kyiv City Council from the Samopomich party. He lost the election, but managed to make good money. Maxim Krippa created an alternative party list and started selling seats on this list.

Dozens of Ukrainian businessmen fell for the “divorce”. When the scam was revealed and it smelled of fried food, Krippa left for Russia and hid for a while. Here is what representatives of the Samopomich party, which was embroiled in a major scandal, said about this:

“We were surprised to learn that Maxim Krippa was selling seats in the next elections on behalf of the Samopomich association. The most striking thing in this story is the fact of the complete lack of adequacy of the people who managed to pay “contributions” for getting into the list for the next parliamentary elections, which no one has even compiled yet. After the party was contacted by representatives of law enforcement agencies, we are unsuccessfully trying to contact the former member of our political force, M. Krippa.”

How the scandal and the fraud case was hushed up remains a mystery. But shortly after that, Krippa returned to Ukraine again and continues to engage in gambling without hindrance. He was a defendant in several criminal cases related to the gambling business, but time after time he got away with it.

It is possible that Maxim Krippa and Max Polyakov also worked on other political projects. And, not only in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the impunity of IT businessmen and the huge opportunities that, despite legal prohibitions, have become available for a tandem in the field of online gambling in Ukraine, Russia and other countries.

Maxim Krippa — CEO Malofeev

Neither Krippa nor Polyakov ever got involved in politics on their own. Politics, especially in Ukraine, is of interest to one of Krippa’s key long-term partners, Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.

For a long time Maxim Krippa worked as a manager for Malofeev and promoted his projects in Ukraine. It was Malofeev who helped his CEO partially circumvent gambling bans in the Russian Federation. The online casinos of Maxim Krippa and his namesake Polyakov are blocked by Roskomnadzor, but are freely available to Rostelecom. It is difficult even for Malofeev to influence Roskomnadzor. But with the largest Internet provider in the country, things are different.

From 2010 to 2013, Konstantin Malofeev was the largest minority shareholder of the company – he owned a 7.22% stake in Rostelecom. The oligarch managed to put his manager Alexander Provotorov at the head of the company. Through it, Malofeev could make any changes to the list of sites blocked by the provider. It was then that Volcanoes, CasinoX and JoyCasino of Maxim Krippa and Max Polyakov began to disappear from the list of blocked sites. The price for the help of the oligarch was a part of the EvoPlay company and certain services in the political plane.

Judging by the fact that Volcanoes and other gambling sites of Krippa-Polyakov are still available in the network of the provider Rostelecom, cooperation with the Russian oligarch continues successfully. But what is the price of this cooperation today?