Kremlin crypto agent: how Anton Olkhovskyi is undermining Ukraine’s financial security from abroad
Despite the war, Russian intelligence is attempting to seize the Ukrainian cryptocurrency and virtual assets market, while discrediting Ukrainian experts on social media.
This is according to an investigation by the publication «ASPI.news».
One such "Kremlin agent" is 39-year-old Anton Olkhovskyi from Zaporizhzhya. He is known on Telegram under the nickname @oLhov and still has an account on the banned Russian social network VKontakte in Ukraine. Olkhovskyi also created and controls a network of 173 Telegram channels, where most of the audience consists of Russians, spreading "information dumps" about the war in Ukraine and discussing cryptocurrency "deals".
He discredits Ukrainian cryptocurrency businessmen who not only defend the Homeland with arms in hand but are also patriots and volunteers. The consequence for the country is the destabilization of Ukraine’s financial market.
Standing in the way of Anton Olkhovskyi, the corrupt Ukrainian law enforcement he involved in the "deals", and Russian intelligence agents for many years is a number of organizations countering Russian funds directed at financing the so-called "L/DPR" and pro-Russian collaborators in Ukraine.
"Who is Anton Olkhovskyi? According to Internet data, he was an agribusinessman in Zaporizhzhya, and on the fourth day of the Russian invasion, he illegally fled to Poland. The first three days, as the Kremlin said then, he awaited the arrival of the occupiers in the Zaporizhzhya region, and on the fourth, he decided to flee beyond Ukraine’s borders. He is the creator of the Telegram group ‘Black List’ where 80% of the users are Russians, and funds laundering discussions are constantly held there," the publication noted.
Olkhovskyi is also the administrator of the Telegram chat "Prof Participants of Russia," where he has been an administrator for about 4 years. Last year, participants of this chat were arrested several times. American FBI conducted special operations on this community controlled by Anton Olkhovskyi. All figures are charged with money laundering because Olkhovskyi’s community members were arrested for such Russian sanctioned exchanges as Suex.
Anton Olkhovskyi decided to take the initiative. He enlisted the support of corrupt representatives of the Ukrainian law enforcement system and began fighting market players who oppose Russian money in Ukraine through discreditation and handing them over to law enforcement. He betrayed Ukrainian businessmen from the cryptocurrency market for 10%, informing corrupt law enforcement officers of available cash funds. Today, Olkhovskyi is engaged in the transfer of funds for subversive activities in Ukraine for Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups and Russian intelligence.
For himself, Anton decided to choose a safe "niche" – sitting by the ocean in Thailand, he organizes the transfer of funds from Moscow to Ukraine for subversive activities and purchases equipment for the occupiers in his native Zaporizhzhya region.
"We hope that the SSU and the Prosecutor General’s Office will pay attention to Anton Olkhovskyi’s anti-Ukrainian activities. His actions to discredit and slander Ukrainian businessmen in the virtual assets market on Internet platforms, tarnishing the honor of Ukrainian volunteers and participants in patriotic movements, do not just harm Ukraine. This could lead to chaos in the state’s financial market, especially the cryptocurrency market," the investigators concluded.
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