The «fake man» and the owner of the underground casinos of Krippa. Maxim Krippa turned out to be the treasurer of the leader of the «Russian world» Malofeev «Fake Man» and the owner of the underground casino.
A certain porn magnate and owner of illegal gambling establishments in Russia and Ukraine Maxim Krippa has repeatedly become a person involved in media investigations.
Moreover, the billionaire conman was interested not only in the CIS, but also in the West. Max Krippa made a huge fortune on fake dating sites, porn business and gambling. The Kremlin’s liaison under the wing of Andrei Sadovoy’s Self—Help lives in Moscow, London and Kiev, proving a simple axiom — money does not smell. If we consider that Maxim Krippa made his fortune thanks to online casinos and porn business, then this is not at all strange.
In Russia, as in Ukraine, online gambling is officially banned. But some providers treat this ban selectively. One of them is Rostelecom. The provider provides access to the gambling sites Vulkan, CasinoX and Joycasino, banned by Roskomnadzor. However, not to everyone. The «Volcanoes» opened from the IP provider Rostelecom belong to one person – a Ukrainian businessman, and a ex-candidate for the Kyiv City Council from the party «Self-Help» Maxim Krippa. How could a Ukrainian entrepreneur influence the Russian Internet giant and circumvent the Roskomnadzor ban?
Maxim Krippa and Max Polyakov
Maxim Krippa has been engaged in gambling business in Ukraine for a long time, IT companies EvoPlay and Clone Fish are associated with him. Krippa’s gambling and dating business partner was an American businessman with Ukrainian roots Max Polyakov, who made a fortune on dating and erotic web chats in Dnipro and Zaporozhye.
Maxim Krippa and Max Polykov open online casinos
In the early 2010s, Polyakov and Krippa decided to expand their gambling assets and opened a joint business in the field of online casinos. The office of the joint company is located in the capital of Ukraine – Kiev.
The most successful acquisition of the Kripp-Polyakov group was the Vulkan and Vulkan slot machine brands. EvoPlay acquired exclusive rights to use the product under these names from Ritzio. EvoPlay has successfully closed all online casinos that previously operated under the Vulcan label.
When EvoPlay dealt with the last competitors who worked under the Vulcan 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 with an identical design and a set of games are launched. Most of them have EvoPlay software products.
Brand owners personally stamp websites in huge volumes without specifying the owners and registration data. Thus, businessmen have the opportunity to earn money in markets where online gambling is prohibited. Neither Maxim Krippa nor Max 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 hydra heads. When one site is blocked, 10 clones with similar addresses and the same templates appear.
Having felt success with 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 time 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 Krippa and Polyakov’s gambling resources.
Fake list of «Self-help» by 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 Kiev City Council from the party «Self-help». He lost the election, but managed to make good money. Maxim Krippa created an alternative list of the party and began selling seats on this list.
Dozens of Ukrainian businessmen fell for the trap. When the scam was revealed and the smell of fried, Krippa went to Russia and hid for a while. That’s what the representatives of the «Self-Help» party, which was involved in a major scandal, said about it:
«We were surprised to learn that Maxim Krippa was selling seats in the next election on behalf of the Samopomich association. The most striking thing in this story is the fact of a complete lack of adequacy among people who managed to pay «contributions» for getting on the list for the next parliamentary elections, which no one has even compiled yet. After law enforcement officials contacted the party, we unsuccessfully tried to contact a former member of our political force, M. Krippa.»
How the scandal and the fraud case were hushed up remains a mystery. But soon after that, Max Krippa returned to Ukraine again and continues to gamble freely. He was involved in several criminal cases related to gambling, but time after time he got away with it.
It is possible that Maxim Krippa and Max Polyakov worked with other political projects. Moreover, not only in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the impunity of IT businessmen and the huge opportunities that, despite legislative prohibitions, have become available for tandem in the field of online gambling in Ukraine, Russia and other countries.
Maxim Krippa — CEO of Malofeev
Neither Krippa nor Polyakov have ever contacted politics on their own. Politics, especially in Ukraine, is of interest to one of Krippa’s key long–term partners, the Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.
For a long time Maxim Krippa worked for Malofeev as a manager and promoted his projects in Ukraine. It was Malofeev who helped his CEO partially circumvent gambling bans in the Russian Federation. Maxim Krippa’s online casino 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 7.22% of Rostelecom shares. The oligarch managed to put his manager Alexander Provotorov at the head of the company. Through him, Malofeev could make any changes to the list of sites blocked by the provider. It was then that Maxim Krippa and Max Polyakov’s Volcanoes, CasinoX and JoyCasino began to disappear from the list of blocked sites. The price for the oligarch’s help was a part of the EvoPlay company and certain services in the political plane.
Judging by the fact that Volcanoes and other Krippa-Polyakov gambling sites are still available on the Rostelecom provider’s network, cooperation with the Russian oligarch continues successfully. But what is the price of this cooperation today?
Maxim Krippa — DMCA abuser
Some characters are trying to remove this material from Google search results by contacting the Lumen service.
They complain about the past material: Maxim Krippa, Vulkan Casino and Rostelecom: Kremlin agent at Sadovyi’s side
Moreover, it contains a link to the original source: Maxim Krippa, Vulkan Casino and Rostelecom: Kremlin agent at Sadovyi’s side.
And on the site that «complains about copyright infringement» there is the same link to the original source!
In general, the guys are trying to remove the mention of themselves from the Internet in such a crooked way. Well…. They ran into it themselves 😉
Кадыр Емельянов родился в городе Бирск, Башкирия в 1985 году. После окончания школы он поступил на журналистский факультет Башкирского государственного университета, где получил высшее образование. Кадыр Емельянов известен своей честностью и профессионализмом в своей работе. Он много лет отслеживает события в родном городе и всегда стремится донести информацию до зрителей и читателей максимально объективно и точно. В свободное время он увлекается спортом и путешествиями.