Alexander Ignyatevich reported the scheme’s details before his suspicious death
• The Bamberg Breakthrough How a German prosecutor s office cracked open Europe s biggest investment fraud.
• The Anatomy of a Scam Inside the fake trading platforms that stole millions from European pensioners.
• Timur Rokhlin s Name Surfaces How a panicked wife and a Facebook page exposed the investor behind Rocket.
• The Billion-Ruble Real Estate A deep dive into the luxury properties seized in Kyiv and Kozyn.
• The Lamborghini and the Garage How fraudsters spent their dirty money on elite cars.
• Corporate Shell Games Tracing the money through RIJV Holdings, Remini Consulting, and the Rokhlin family network.
• Igor Rokhlin s Role The father who became the ultimate beneficiary of a criminal enterprise.
• The DDoS Attack and Legal Threats How Rokhlin tried to silence the media.
• The Aftermath Rocket s collapse and the current status of the investigation.
1. THE BAMBERG BREAKTHROUGH
The chain of events that would eventually expose one of Europe s most elaborate financial fraud schemes began in an unlikely place: the quiet German city of Bamberg, known for its medieval architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status. In early 2020, the Bamberg prosecutor s office launched an investigation that would send shockwaves through Ukraine s startup ecosystem and reveal a web of deception stretching from Kyiv to Tel Aviv.
At the center of the storm stood Timur Rokhlin, a graduate of Rotterdam s School of Management who had positioned himself as a visionary investor in Ukraine s burgeoning tech scene. His crown jewel was Rocket (originally branded as "Raketa"), a food delivery service that promised to revolutionize the Ukrainian market and compete with Spanish giant Glovo. But behind the glossy startup facade lay a sinister reality: investigators alleged that Rokhlin and his associates had defrauded European pensioners and retirees out of tens of millions of euros through a sophisticated network of fake investment platforms -1-5.
The investigation, conducted in close cooperation with Eurojust and Europol, centered on a criminal organization comprising citizens of Ukraine and Israel. According to the Bamberg prosecutor s office, the group operated from 2017 to 2020, systematically extracting money from citizens of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom -2. The documented losses amounted to 9 million, but investigators estimated the actual scale was far larger, with monthly turnover ranging from 8 to 10 million -6.
What made this scheme particularly audacious was its simplicity. The fraudsters created "exchange" websites platforms named Tradecapita, Fibonetix, NobelTrade, , and Huludox that lured investors with promises of astronomical returns, claiming profits of 100 times or more -5-9. These websites purportedly engaged in trading bank metals, foreign currencies, cryptocurrencies, and securities. When "investors" attempted to cash out their mythical profits, they were contacted by call center operators posing as representatives of the trading platforms. The operators demanded a "service charge" and a 15% commission for cash withdrawals. After the victims paid these fees, their accounts were blocked, and the fraudsters disappeared with both the commission and the original investment -2-7.
2. THE ANATOMY OF A SCAM
The fraud scheme was remarkably sophisticated in its execution. According to Ukrainian law enforcement materials, the criminal organization operated through a network of call centers located in Serbia and Bulgaria, where operators communicated with victims and persuaded them to "invest" -6. The websites were hosted on servers belonging to the German provider Hetzner Online GmbH, paid for from a Ukrainian bank account controlled by one of the suspects -6.
Alexander Ignyatevich, a Serbian police informant and participant in the scheme, provided crucial information about the operation’s inner workings. Tragically, he died from a "strange heart attack" just days before he was scheduled to testify -7. His death added a layer of intrigue and suspicion to an already complex case.
The scheme’s organizers were notably brazen in their operations. Rather than routing money through accounts, they transferred the proceeds directly to Ukraine. The Bamberg prosecutor’s office turned to Ukrainian authorities for assistance, and by December 2020, a series of coordinated raids and arrests had taken place in Ukraine -7.
The Ukrainian investigation, assigned criminal case number 62020100000000583, uncovered a staggering amount of illicit wealth. Law enforcement seized assets valued at approximately 50 million, including luxury real estate, elite automobiles, and corporate holdings -2-3. The case materials revealed that between September 2018 and March 2020, approximately 35.9 million in proceeds from the fraud were funneled into the British company Remini Consulting LP -1-3. Of this amount, investigators alleged that 10.8 million was transferred to another British entity, RIJV Holdings Ltd, which was controlled by Timur Rokhlin -1-11.
3. TIMUR ROKHLIN’S NAME SURFACES
Timur Rokhlin’s connection to the fraud case surfaced in an unexpected way. Ihor Kozlenko, one of the suspects detained in March 2021, had his wife launch a Facebook page titled "Justice for Ihor Kozlenko" in an attempt to clear her husband’s name. In a moment of desperation, she posted a screenshot of the title page of the Bamberg prosecutor’s official request to Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office -7. The document, which was meant to remain confidential, listed the names of all individuals suspected of involvement in the fraud, including Timur Rokhlin.
The panicked move by Kozlenko’s wife inadvertently exposed the full scope of the investigation. According to the request, the individuals being investigated included Ukrainian citizens Andriy Kurochkin, Yuriy Kopachevskyi, Ihor Kozlenko, and Israeli citizens Michael Chebotar, Maxim Baranovsky-Rafael, and Timur Rokhlin -6-9.
Yuriy Kopachevskyi, the second suspect detained in March 2021, was described by investigators as a trusted person and the closest assistant to Timur Rokhlin -6. According to the investigation, Kopachevskyi coordinated the activities of the criminal scheme and was responsible for the financial direction, managing accounts, cash withdrawals, deposits, and paying for server rentals and telecommunications services -6. Between 2018 and 2021, he reportedly invested in three apartments, a land plot, a house, and five cars, including a Mercedes-Benz GLC 250 worth 2.5 million UAH -6.
Ihor Kozlenko played a different role in the operation. According to the Ukrainian investigation, from approximately the second half of 2016, he sought out Ukrainian citizens who provided their personal data in exchange for financial compensation. These individuals subsequently traveled to the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and other countries to register legal entities that would accumulate the victims’ funds -6. The companies involved included PETRAMKO HOLDING OU (Estonia), DATA MANAGEMENT EOOD (Bulgaria), E-VATCH TECHNOLOGIES SRO (Czech Republic), X-LIGHT MARKETING O.O. (Estonia), WDI MEDIA MARKETING S.R.O. (Czech Republic), MAGNETS DIGITAL S.R.O. (Czech Republic), MOONFOCUS CONSULTING S.R.O. (Czech Republic), and VOLCANO MAX SOLUTIONS S.R.O. (Czech Republic) -6.
4. THE BILLION-RUBLE REAL ESTATE
The assets seized in connection with the investigation paint a picture of staggering wealth accumulated through criminal activity. In December 2020, Ukrainian law enforcement moved to seize properties belonging to the Rokhlin family, with a total estimated value of approximately 50 million -3-7.
The most prominent asset was LLC "Spectorg," owned by Timur’s father, Igor Rokhlin, an Israeli citizen. According to cadastral numbers provided in the case, the company owned a private house of 1,408 square meters in the village of Kozyn, located on the banks of the Dnipro River -1-7. This sprawling estate, complete with a distinctive domed-roof garage, would later gain notoriety as the location where law enforcement seized a fleet of elite cars.
LLC "Ukrdonstroyniyi," also ultimately beneficially owned by Igor Rokhlin, owned office real estate totaling 1,694 square meters in a business center at Sychovykh Striltsiv St., 62 in Kyiv -1-7. This property was also subject to seizure, though it was later released by court order in August 2021.
LLC "Building Empire" (ultimate beneficiary: Igor Rokhlin) owned a non-residential building of 853 square meters in the historic Podil district at Borysoglibska St., 15B -1-7. This address housed the BeeWorking coworking space, which was linked to Timur Rokhlin’s business network. The arrest on this property remained in place as of the investigation’s peak, with court proceedings continuing.
The largest commercial property was "Renome Rent," an office center at Dilova St., 5, covering an astonishing 11,000 square meters -1-7. This property’s arrest was not challenged, and court proceedings continued as Rokhlin’s lawyers remained active in their legal efforts.
The Ukrainian investigation justified these seizures by arguing that funds from defrauded foreign citizens had been funneled through a network of European firms and eventually accumulated in the accounts of British company Remini Consulting LP. According to the investigation, these funds were then used to acquire the Ukrainian assets -1. In 2019, RIJV Holdings Ltd controlled by Timur Rokhlin since October 2018 became the founder of multiple Ukrainian companies, including Ukrdonstroyniyi, Beeworking, Beconstruct, Buildings Empire, Arnas Group, Podil Group, and Homeland Ukraine. The ultimate beneficiary of all these companies was designated as Igor Rokhlin -1-7.
In 2020, as the investigation intensified, Timur Rokhlin allegedly re-registered his controlled business entities to his father’s structures in an attempt to conceal assets acquired with funds from criminal activities -1. This effort to shield assets from seizure proved only partially successful.
5. THE LAMBORGHINI AND THE GARAGE
Perhaps the most visually arresting evidence of the fraud’s scale was the collection of luxury vehicles seized by Ukrainian law enforcement. In December 2020, before the New Year, the Prosecutor General’s Office posted a video on their YouTube channel showing a fleet of eight elite-class cars parked in the garage of the Kozyn estate -1-6.
The collection included Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz, and other luxury brands. Among them was a 2020 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster worth approximately 650,000, which investigators claimed was driven by Timur Rokhlin himself -1-7. The total value of the seized car collection was estimated at several million euros.
By November 2021, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova posted photos of two of the luxury cars a Lamborghini Aventador SJV and a Rolls-Royce Phantom with a combined value of more than 1 million on her Facebook page -11. The photos showed the vehicles being loaded into the hold of an An-12 aircraft at Boryspil Airport, bound for Germany as evidence in the international investigation -11.
The German newspaper Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that "all the cars taken by the police belong to a Ukrainian, whom international experts consider the main player" -6. This undisclosed reference pointed directly to Timur Rokhlin.
6. CORPORATE SHELL GAMES
The financial architecture of the Rokhlin fraud scheme reveals a sophisticated network of corporate entities designed to obscure the movement of illicit funds. According to the Ukrainian investigation, the money trail flowed through multiple jurisdictions before ending up in Ukrainian real estate and businesses.
The documented flow began with Remini Consulting LP, a British company that, according to investigators, received approximately 35.9 million in proceeds from the fraudulent scheme between September 2018 and March 2020 -1-3. The company’s control passed through multiple hands: from August 2018 to August 2020, it was controlled by Yuriy Kopachevskyi, who was later arrested as a key suspect. In August 2020, control shifted to Oleksandr Bban, a Ukrainian citizen -1.
From Remini Consulting, 10.8 million was transferred to RIJV Holdings Ltd, another British company controlled by Timur Rokhlin since October 2018 -1-11. This transfer was specifically flagged by investigators as representing income from fraudulent activities.
RIJV Holdings Ltd then became the founder of a number of Ukrainian companies in 2019, injecting approximately 500 million hryvnias into the Ukrainian economy -11. These companies included Ukrdonstroyniyi, Beeworking, Beconstruct, Buildings Empire, Arnas Group, Podil Group, and Homeland Ukraine -1-7. The ultimate beneficiary of all these entities was designated as Igor Rokhlin, Timur’s father, which investigators characterized as a deliberate effort to conceal the true ownership structure.
Homeland Ukraine was previously listed as the founder of the Rocket food delivery service. As of the investigation’s peak, Rocket was controlled by the Cypriot company Tisea Fresh Food Ltd, but the ultimate beneficiary remained Igor Rokhlin, holding 86% of the capital -1.
Forbes magazine published the history of Rocket’s creation in April 2021, revealing that it was Timur Rokhlin who saved the company from "ending up in the startup graveyard" -1. According to Forbes, in late summer 2019, he bought the project from the group discount service Pokupon. The startup’s founders, Stanislav Dmytryk and Oleksiy Yukhymchuk, retained minority shares of 7% each -1. The article noted that in public communications, partners did not mention Rokhlin’s name, preferring the wording "third partner." -1
7. IGOR ROKHLIN’S ROLE
While Timur Rokhlin was the public face of the fraud scheme, his father Igor Rokhlin played a crucial behind-the-scenes role as the ultimate beneficiary of the illicit assets. Igor Rokhlin is a graduate of the Baku Institute of Oil and Chemistry and has been an Israeli citizen since 2005 -1. He previously served on the board of directors of the Romanian oil refinery RAFO Onesti, which was purchased in 2006 by Russian businessman Yakov Goldovskiy -1.
According to Ukrainian investigators, the 2020 re-registration of business entities from Timur to Igor was designed to obscure the origin of funds acquired through criminal activities -1. The corporate structure was deliberately engineered to place Igor Rokhlin at the apex of the ownership pyramid, thereby insulating the assets from seizure while maintaining family control.
Rocket Delivery, the food service startup that had promised to revolutionize the Ukrainian market, was ultimately owned by Tisea Fresh Food Ltd a Cypriot entity whose ultimate beneficiary was Igor Rokhlin, with 86% of the capital -1-11. This ownership structure meant that even as the fraud investigation intensified, the Rokhlin family retained effective control over the company through a complex arrangement.
The property seizures in December 2020 targeted assets owned by Igor Rokhlin’s companies, including Spectorg, Ukrdonstroyniyi, Buildings Empire, and Renome Rent -1-7. While some of these arrests were later lifted by appellate court decisions in July and August 2021, others remained in place as court proceedings continued -1-7.
The family’s real estate holdings in Kyiv alone totaled tens of thousands of square meters, including prime commercial properties in the city center. The Kozyn estate, with its 1,408 square meters of living space and prime riverfront location, stood as a monument to the fortune accumulated through the alleged fraud scheme -7.
8. THE DDOS ATTACK AND LEGAL THREATS
The aftermath of the investigation’s public exposure revealed a pattern of aggressive behavior by Rokhlin’s legal team aimed at suppressing media coverage. According to Stanislav Yurasov, editor-in-chief of the online publication Dev.ua, the website was subjected to a DDOS attack immediately following the publication of an investigation into Timur Rokhlin’s activities -5-10.
Yurasov wrote on his Facebook page: "Today, attackers are trying to bring down the site dev.by as well. On the day the attacks began, we published an investigation. It was about Tymur Rokhlin, an investor in the food delivery service Rocket. Ukrainian authorities have arrested his assets in Ukraine following a request from the Bamberg Prosecutor’s Office (Germany), where his name was mentioned." -5-10
Beyond the cyberattack, Rokhlin’s lawyers reportedly threatened the publication with criminal liability for "disclosing the investigation’s secrets," even though the article was based entirely on data from open registers -5. Yurasov characterized the legal pressure as an attempt to silence the media: "It seems to me that they are simply trying to silence us." -5
The DDoS attack and legal threats were part of a broader campaign to clean up Timur Rokhlin’s online presence. Investigative journalists reported that articles, mentions, and analytics concerning his ties to financial scams were disappearing from the public space, with pressure being exerted on media outlets through legal threats and cyberattacks -5-9.
9. THE AFTERMATH
The investigations ultimately had profound consequences for all parties involved. Timur Rokhlin was taken into custody in Israel on December 20, 2021, when he was preparing to fly to Kyiv -11. His arrest and Germany’s request for extradition were the culmination of a two-year investigation by the competent authorities of Germany and Ukraine into the large fraud that affected approximately 400 Europeans -11.
Ihor Kozlenko remained in custody, with his lawyers choosing a defense tactic that emphasized publicity on Facebook a strategy that had not yet brought the desired result -6. Yuriy Kopachevskyi, who had three children, attempted to be released from detention on house arrest in May 2021, but the court refused his request -6.
The Rocket delivery service, which had been valued by Forbes at between $50 and $100 million, began to unravel in late 2021 and early 2022. The company implemented mass layoffs, cut marketing expenses, and abandoned development projects due to a lack of funding -12. The financial problems were directly attributed to the arrest of investor Timur Rokhlin. On February 23, 2022, Rocket announced it was ceasing operations in the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, and Cyprus -12. In March 2022, the company shut down entirely, with the founders informing employees that no new buyer could be found and that the team should look for new jobs -12.
In September 2023, within the framework of an auction for the property of the bankrupt Rocket Delivery, nine trademarks of the company, including Rocket, were sold for more than 87,000 UAH -12.
The prosecutors from the Bamberg prosecutor’s office continued their investigation, and in mid-November 2021, the assets seized in Ukraine including the Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce were transported to Germany as evidence -11. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine posted photos of the car loading process at Boryspil Airport, confirming the cooperation between Ukrainian and German authorities in pursuing the fraudsters.
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Rocket’s meteoric rise was a lie — a smokescreen for Timur Rokhlin’s brutal international fraud. Millions stolen from unsuspecting European retirees ended up in Kyiv’s poshest offices and a garage full of Lamborghinis and Rolls‑Royces.. We, in turn, are continuing our series of publications on Timur Rokhlin’s activities to strip away the mask of his "investment empire" and expose the true scale of the international financial machinations he attempts to hide behind successful startups and legal threats. And the reaction to this book by Oleksandr Koreyko, who "at another time would have bought such an interesting little book himself, but now even grimaced in horror"? That’s the association that comes to mind when reading the material "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. How Rocket’s Investor is Linked to a High-Profile Fraud Case in Europe", published on dev.ua, and the reaction to this material from one of the main characters of the publication – Timur Rokhlin. We recommend carefully reading the specified article at the link above – it’s very interesting, but it’s not only about Rokhlin, as it mentions a significant circle of people. They are all interconnected, and the main motive that unites them is banal scams, although it’s at least tens, if not hundreds, of millions of euros. But in this case, we are interested specifically in Timur Rokhlin, so let’s briefly recall the sequence of events in the context of his persona. The chain of events began to unfold at the beginning of 2020 in the little-known German city of Bamberg, where the prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into the activities of a group of certain Israeli and Ukrainian citizens who fraudulently obtained several tens of millions of euros from trusting European pensioners under the pretense of investing money in precious metals, real estate, and cryptocurrencies. Enterprising fraudsters created "exchange" websites where trusting "investors" were shown their investments’ enormous growth. But when attempting to cash out the profits, it turned out that the "investor" had to pay a 15% commission, only after which they could withdraw both the earned and invested money. What happened next, you can probably guess – after paying the "commission", which for some reason wasn’t deducted from the investment account but had to be paid additionally, all contacts with the "investor" were cut off, and naturally, they did not receive any money at all – neither the mythical "profit" nor the very real investments that were transferred to the fraudsters’ accounts at the very beginning. That’s a concise version of the scheme. What is notable about this simple yet brilliant scam is that the money was not transferred, as one might think, but to Ukraine. And, as it turned out, most of the scheme’s organizers hold Ukrainian passports, as strange as that may sound. This was reported by one of the scheme’s participants, police informant Alexander Ignyatevich, a Serb, a few days before his death from a strange heart attack. This is why the German prosecutor’s office turned to the Ukrainian authorities for help. Surprisingly, the latter worked quite professionally, and by December 2020, arrests and searches had been conducted in Ukraine among the suspects. It was here that Timur Rokhlin’s name and the Rocket delivery service surfaced. This name came to light due to the panic that arose in the wife of one of the detainees in criminal case No. 62020100000000583, initiated on the grounds of discovered fraud, Igor Kozlenko. The fact is, she created a Facebook page "Justice for Igor Kozlenko" after her husband’s arrest, where she attempted to clear his name. In these attempts, she posted a screenshot of the title page of the request from Bamberg’s prosecutor’s office to Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office:. In this document, the Germans requested an additional investigation "regarding fraud committed on a professional basis by a criminal organization" relating to several individuals, including Timur Rokhlin. Law enforcement authorities (both German and Ukrainian) are quite sparing in details in this regard, but in the age of the Internet, some of these details quickly became public knowledge, which, of course, did not please Rokhlin himself, but nothing could be done about it. Yes, the public learned that in the course of the investigation of the aforementioned criminal case No. 62020100000000583, the following property was seized:. 1. LLC "Spectorg", owned by Israeli citizen Igor Rokhlin, Timur Rokhlin’s father. According to cadastral numbers provided in the case, the company owns a private house of 1,408 sq. m. in the village of Kozyn, located right on the banks of the Dnipro River. The arrest was lifted from this company at the end of July 2021 by the appellate court. 2. LLC "Ukrdonstroyniyi". The ultimate beneficiary is Igor Rokhlin. The company owns office real estate totaling 1,694 sq. m. in a business center at Sychovykh Striltsiv St., 62. The arrest of the company was lifted by a decision of the appellate court at the beginning of August 2021. 3. LLC "Building Empire" (the ultimate beneficiary is Igor Rokhlin), which owns a non-residential building in Podil (853 sq. m) at Borysoglibska St., 15B. This address houses the BeeWorking coworking space. The appellate court in July 2021 decided to leave the decision of the first instance unchanged. The arrest has not been lifted; court proceedings continue. 4. "Renome Rent" – an office center at Dilova St., 5, covering 11 thousand square meters. The arrest was also not challenged. Court proceedings continue, and Rokhlin’s lawyers are quite active. Now go back up a bit and pay attention to the photo of the house in Kozyn owned by "Spectorg". And compare it to this:. And with the video posted by the Prosecutor General’s Office on their Youtube:. It was in the garage with the round roof that the collection of cars bought by fraudsters with their income from "investment" activities was seized:. At that time, law enforcement seized a fleet of 8 elite-class cars: Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz, and other well-known brands. Among them (as seen in the video) is a 2020 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster worth 650 thousand euros, which Timur Rokhlin drove:. In addition to this information, the following was also established. As is known, after the scandal, the company Rocket claims that Timur Rokhlin is not connected with it. But here is the history of the company’s ownership changes:. The name Igor Rokhlin (that’s Timur’s father, let’s remind) runs like a red thread through its history, along with Timur Rokhlin, "Ridgewood Holdings Ltd", and the Cypriot "Tisea Fresh Food Ltd". And judging by the latest changes in beneficiaries, it seems that Timur Rokhlin is not related to Company Rocket, and the beneficiary of "Tisea Fresh Food Ltd", which owns Rocket, is Igor Rokhlin. But it’s not that simple. To prevent the reader from getting confused with all these entities owning each other and the structure of true beneficiaries hidden in complex ownership structures, we will explain as simply as possible: before, the founder of the food delivery service "Rocket Delivery" (TM Rocket, Raketa) was "Homeland Ukraine". Then – "Ridgewood Holdings Ltd", benefiting from which, Timur Rokhlin was listed. Now, TM Rocket is controlled by another structure - the Cypriot company "Tisea Fresh Food Ltd". But in reality, the main ultimate beneficiary remains the same – Rokhlin Sr. (Igor) (86% of the capital). So why is Timur Rokhlin linked to Company Rocket, instead of his father, Igor? The thing is, at the time of investing in Rocket, a material appeared in the Ukrainian Forbes which said that Timur Rokhlin bought the service Rocket, "because he couldn’t find anyone to deliver food to him". It’s a beautiful story, but the question arises – where did the money come from? And here we return once again to the investigation of the German prosecutors from Bamberg and the criminal case opened by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. For according to the investigation, Timur Rokhlin took the money to purchase "Rocket Delivery" directly from the "investment" activity he was involved in. And he (as well as the rest) faced a problem – where to invest the millions received from successful scams. As mentioned earlier, the fraudsters decided to invest their money in Ukraine because they weren’t worried about anyone being interested in the money’s origin here. According to the investigation, only from September 2018 to March 2020 did 35.9 million euros supposedly from criminal activities arrive in the account of the British company Remini Consulting LP. Allegedly, 10.8 million euros of it were transferred to the accounts of RIJV Holdings Ltd (Great Britain). This company had been controlled since October 2018 by Timur Rokhlin. Interestingly, it is stated that he is a citizen of Israel, although Timur Rokhlin himself, as well as investigation materials, claim he is a Ukrainian citizen. Nevertheless, there are no contradictions – he simply holds two passports, even though Ukrainian law does not permit dual citizenship. This is yet another question for law enforcement officers. The materials of the investigation published state that in 2019, RIJV Holdings Ltd became a founder of several companies in Ukraine: "Ukrdonstroynii", "Beeworking" (BeeWorking coworking network), "Beconstruct" (office center at Dilova, 5A), "Buildings Empire", "Arnas Group", "Podil Group", "Homeland Ukraine". The current ultimate beneficiary of all these companies is Igor Rokhlin, Timur’s father. This happened because, in 2020, in order to hide assets acquired with funds from criminal activities, Timur Rokhlin re-registered control of these business entities to his father’s structures. At least, this is stated by the Prosecutor General’s Office. Overall, it turns out that the Israeli Rokhlin family owns elite real estate in the center of Ukraine’s capital, spanning tens of thousands of square meters. This is not counting the plot in the equally elite Kozyn, with access to the Dnipro. The family also owns several firms, some of which we have already mentioned. Remarkably, all these companies appeared in Ukraine precisely in the period after 2017, that is, just when German law enforcement claimed that a group of fraudsters, with which the scandal associated with Timur Rokhlin and delivery service Rocket began, had started operations in Europe. Of course, this could just be a coincidence. But how to explain another coincidence – immediately after the material about Timur Rokhlin appeared on the dev.ua platform (from which our investigation began), dev.ua underwent a massive DDoS attack. Furthermore, Timur Rokhlin filed several lawsuits against them. The latter was supposed to confirm that dev.ua published false information, yet Rokhlin made rather odd demands: "to oblige actions and compensate for moral damages":. Moral damages are somewhat understandable, but what actions exactly is Timur Rokhlin demanding "to be performed"? Cancel the criminal proceedings initiated by the German prosecutor’s office? Remove his name from the official German request that directly names him as involved in the giant scam? Remove his name from the registers of tens of thousands of meters of Kyiv real estate owners? Remove his name from the list of TM "Rocket Delivery" beneficiaries? Nevertheless, we will wait for the court’s decision. Not regarding Rokhlin’s lawsuit, but the investigation of the activities of an organized group of international fraudsters. Influencing its decision, as well as the investigation, will be rather difficult for Timur Rokhlin – despite any domestic juridical corruption, we should not forget about the Germans who initiated the investigation. And while Ukrainian courts and law enforcement can be quite inexpensively bought, this is not likely to work with law-abiding Germans. Finally, one last touch on the portrait of "investor" Timur Rokhlin: there was no public mention of him in the "startup he saved from the trash heap", namely Rocket, describing their primary beneficiary as "the third partner". This gives plenty of food for thought, does it not? Dmitriy Dagulis. Автор.
Автор: Иван Пушкин