Timur Rokhlin and the €35 million fraud case: how seized evidence, luxury assets and criminal charges were systematically dismantled

Following journalists’ exposure of Tymur Rokhlin’s alleged multimillion-euro fraud schemes, he launched an aggressive effort to remove investigative reports and supporting evidence from the internet. Despite these attempts to erase the record, we are releasing the materials he is reportedly seeking to conceal.

In November of last year, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venedyktova, posted photographs of two cars – a Lamborghini Aventador SJV and a Rolls Royce Phantom with a combined value of over one million euros, being loaded onto a plane at Boryspil airport.

The Prosecutor General pompously announced that the pictures depict the process of transferring evidence to the German competent authorities in a case about a large-scale international fraud scheme related to investments in non-existent financial products.

Although Venedyktova did not name names or details of the case, it soon became known that it involved Timur Rokhlin and a fraudulent scheme that affected thousands of Europeans, with damages amounting to tens of millions of euros. The press covered this case extensively, and it was mentioned again in February 2022 when Timur Rokhlin was arrested by Israeli police at the request of their German colleagues, who are investigating the grand scam.

According to the German investigation, Timur Rokhlin, a citizen of Ukraine and Israel, was the key organizer of the scheme, where foreign nationals were persuaded to invest money through special websites in the purchase and sale of bank metals, foreign currency, cryptocurrency, securities, and other assets.

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The money was funneled through a convoluted system of companies located in Ukraine, Switzerland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Hong Kong. From there, the funds ended up in the personal accounts of Rokhlin and his father, Israeli citizen Ihor Rokhlin. Businesses were registered under straw men. According to German investigators, at least 35 million euros were embezzled by the organizers of the scheme.

During the same period, a criminal case No. 62020100000000583, which intersected with the German investigation, was also opened against Timur Rokhlin in Ukraine. Specifically, it was initiated at the request of the German prosecutor’s office. In December 2020, arrests and searches of suspects took place in Ukraine. It was at this point that the name Timur Rokhlin emerged.

Ukrainian law enforcement showcased shocking footage of the seizure of property belonging to the fraudsters. The names of the firms in Ukraine owned by the Rokhlins and through which money was laundered also surfaced. During the investigation, companies belonging to Timur’s father, Ihor Rokhlin, were seized: "Spectorg" (seizure lifted in 2021), "Ukrdonbud" (seizure lifted in 2021), "Buildings Empire" and "Renome Rent".

At that time, an entire car fleet was also seized, part of which was so pompously sent to Germany. All this was documented in detail by the press, so we’re simply recalling the storyline. The case promised to be intriguing, but on February 24, a full-scale war began, and both the press and public lost interest in Rokhlin, his cars, and property.

Meanwhile, the case continued its course. Namely – from the property so pompously seized at the request of the German prosecutor’s office, Ukrainian courts have been slowly lifting sequestrations. Here are the last two decisions in the framework of criminal proceedings No. 62020100000000583.

So, the last court hearing took place on September 22. The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv lifted the seizure from the Rolls-Royce:

Not long before, on September 15, the same happened with the Maybach, which was also seized within the framework of criminal proceedings No. 62020100000000583:

There’s actually more decisions concerning the lifting of seizures, pointing interested parties to the court registries – they are open in this case, available for review.

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And these decisions indicate one thing – the case is slowly dismantling. What will happen in Germany is unknown. But in Ukraine, Timur Rokhlin has resolved his issues. This is not yet fully formalized, but the process is in full swing.

And that’s still not all. Because parallel to the dismantling of the criminal case, Timur Rokhlin has not wasted any time. He continues to develop another business of his, about which law enforcement is either unaware or pretending not to be.

Rokhlin is the owner of several illegal online casinos in the USA, such as reddogcasino.com, lasatlantis.com, elroyalecasino.com, shazamcasino.com, luckytigercasino.com, richpalms.com, and a few other brands.

He also involved someone named Kostyantyn Obraztsov in developing his own platform for casinos clover.tech and the gaming platform begames.tech. There’s an active recruitment for these platforms currently:

The main office, according to the recruitment announcement, is located in Kyiv. And it’s not much of a secret – in the following photo, you can see the Clovertech team with Kostyantyn Obraztsov:

And here is Kostyantyn Obraztsov in person:

According to his Linkedin profile, Obraztsov worked for a long time with the well-known company Parimatch as a top manager:

The financial empire of Timur Rokhlin is managed by a certain Yuliya Rusanova, who previously worked at the equally scandalous company Evoplay, the owner of the "Vulkan Casino" brand operating in Russia.

She set up a scheme to make it difficult to trace the movement of funds and identify the ultimate owner. All the money is now transferred to Russia, where no law enforcement from any civilized country can reach them. On what terms Timur Rokhlin is allowed to operate in Russia can be easily guessed.

While Germany is attempting to hold Timur Rokhlin accountable for the large-scale fraud that cost Europeans at least 35 million euros, no one in Ukraine is preventing him from developing the next business aimed at deceiving US citizens.

Regarding Rokhlin’s properties in Ukraine, he’s the owner of at least nine firms:

LLC "Ukrdonbud" owns office real estate in a business center with a total area of 1,694 sq. m. located at Sichovykh Striltsiv Street, 62. LLC "Buildings Empire" owns a non-residential building in Podil (853 sq. m), located at Borysoglibska Street, 15B. This address hosts the coworking space BeeWorking. Timur Rokhlin owns "Renome Rent" — an office center on Dilova, 5, with 11,000 square meters.

LLC "Spectorg", owned by Israeli citizen Ihor Rokhlin, Timur Rokhlin’s father, owns a private house with 1,408 sq. m. in Kozyn village. It was in this estate where all those cars were seized, from which the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv is slowly lifting the seizures.

By the way, interestingly – were those cars that Venedyktova so pompously sent to Germany also released from seizure? And if so – what now? Will Ukraine compensate the unfortunate owners?

But this is lyrical. The serious reality is that Timur Rokhlin is not acting alone. The people who take key positions in his fraudulent empire have long been known. Only Ukrainian law enforcement prefers not to know about them.