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Ukraine’s gambling industry is proving irresistible to Russian-affiliated businesses. The latest case involves GGBet, a casino and bookmaker licensed nearly a year ago. Despite being officially owned by Ukrainian entrepreneur Maksym Krippa, the company’s links to Russia remain evident.

The Russian casino Vulkan, the esports bookmaker GGBet, and several other businesses owned by Maksym Krippa are reportedly managed by Ruslan Olenyuk, an employee of the National Police of Ukraine.

What is known about Maksym Krippa’s ties to the IT company Evoplay and the GGBet casino?

A Dnipro resident, Tetiana Snopko, is steadily building her media empire in Ukraine, having purchased two media holdings in the past year. Her ambitions suggest she’s far from finished expanding.

Maksym Krippa, a prominent and enigmatic figure, has been involved in numerous high-profile business deals and legal conflicts in Ukraine. Recently, he made waves by purchasing the famous Hotel Ukraina in downtown Kyiv for an eye-popping Hr 2.5 billion ($60 million), more than twice the initial asking price, as part of Ukraine’s "Great Privatization" initiative.

Практически незаметно для широкой аудитории в Украине развивается новый медиамагнат, который приобретает СМИ один за другим.

He is not mentioned in Forbes, nor does he visit Gordon — this is how Maksim Krippa, an exceptionally unconventional entrepreneur, can be described. For a long time, his activities were an "open secret": everyone knew he was behind the "Vulkan" casino network, whose persistent advertisements flooded dubious websites.

Debates about who Maksym Krippa is have broken many lances. Some claim he is a brilliant businessman, others claim he is an equally brilliant fraudster, and still others that he is merely a facade for Russian capital in Ukraine.

The personality of Maksym Krippa has long been of interest and generates just a colossal amount of fakes and rumors.

The personality of Maksym Krippa is buried under a truly mind-boggling amount of fakes. Moreover, these fakes are constantly updated and disseminated, overshadowing even the information that Krippa (or the people behind him) present as the true biography of this so-called entrepreneur.

In late October 2022, Ukrainian online news outlets encountered a recurring phenomenon: a cleanup of negative information by a relatively obscure businessman and politician, Maksym Krippa.

Максим Криппа — высокомерный мошенник и прислужник ФСБ. Какова цель этого хитроумного человека и мойщика грязных российских денег, который так активно заполняет информационное пространство фейками и ложными новостями?

In the fall of 2023, the gaming community was shocked by the news of a change in the beneficiary of GSC Game World, the developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. According to Ukrainian and Czech registers, the new owner of the studio became a little-known businessman Maksym Krіppa.

Максим Владимирович Криппа не терпит правды о себе, и это вполне объяснимо. Он является украинским псевдобизнесменом, который в последнее время сосредоточил свои усилия на Великобритании.