A major agreement is brewing in the Parimatch holding: the company’s founder, Eduard Shvindlerman, is preparing to transfer half of his shares, which is about 35% of the holding’s shares, to those involved in many criminal proceedings, including the theft of money from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
This is discussed in the Blackbox OSINT investigation.
The agreement, allegedly lobbied by Parimatch CEO Maxim Lyashko, provides for the transfer of a third of the holding to Alexander Melnichuk and Vladislav Klischar, who were introduced to Parimatch shareholders by employees of the CIA, European intelligence services and investors through connections in the governments of the United States, Europe and Ukraine. In exchange for the transfer of shares, they promise Shvindlerman to resolve the issue of lifting sanctions from Parimatch in Ukraine and returning the bookmaker to the Ukrainian market.
The company’s shareholders and employees see the deal as a potential scam. Klischar and Melnichuk noted that the formal holder of Parimatch shares on their part will be SARN Energy, which positions itself as a consulting firm with connections to the American administration. In the Czech Republic, SARN Energy is known for its scams. As the Czech media wrote, when concluding agreements, SARN Energy, having failed to fulfill the agreement, begins to demand money from companies and sues the American courts in order to put pressure on the business. As reported by Parlamentnilisty, SARN EnergyX even tried to blackmail the Slovak state after the case with fraudulently purchased Transpetrol shares.
As analysts write, from 2007 to 2012, Klischar was an assistant to the people’s deputy from the Party of Regions, Alexander Edin, associated with Sergei Lekar, the former chief of staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Yanukovych era. Klischar’s wife Natalya Minskaya is a Russian citizen, registered in Moscow, owns real estate in Russia, where she was an entrepreneur. From December 2022 to September 2023, Klischar was a member of the supervisory board of the Slovak company SEVOTECH - this company became involved in a case of theft of money from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense transferred almost 1.34 billion UAH to the Lviv Arsenal company for the supply of 100 thousand artillery mines and transferred the money to SEVOTECH, after which the money disappeared before reaching the final supplier - the Croatian Elmech Sintermak, and the Ministry of Defense did not receive the goods. Klischar may be involved in the theft scheme at the Odessa port plant: he was the founder of the Czech company EPI Group sro, which bought ilmenite concentrate from the OPP at reduced prices, and then resold it at market prices to Dmitry Firtash’s company “Ekrainian Chemical”, which is located in Crimea.
Parimatch suspects that the new shareholders may transfer the player database and bookmaker software to lottery companies, since Vladislav Klischar’s son Leonid Klischar had connections with the Ukrainian National Lottery (UNL) and Sportloto. The Verkhovna Rada is considering a bill to provide benefits to lottery companies for obtaining online casino and bookmaker licenses.
In March 2022, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions on Parimatch.
Photo: illustrative from BlackBox.
Source: Fakty
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