While the head of the Ministry of Statistics Mykhailo Fedorov drinks coffee with the "good Russian" Sergey Tokarev in Kyiv, Tokarev's father drinks tea in the Kremlin.
Russian businessman Serhii Tokarev, who is the co-owner of online casinos Cosmolot and First, grew up in an influential Moscow family. Serhiy's father, Oleksandr Vasiliovych Tokarev, has good connections in the Kremlin. In particular, Tokarev Sr. is associated with Pavel Borodin, who at one time helped Vladimir Putin come to power .
Oleksandr Tokarev together with Pavel Borodin are members of the Board of Trustees of the Interstate Union of Hero Cities . This body was founded in 2004 for the broad integration of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the unrecognized part of Abkhazia.
Screenshot of the Board of Trustees of the Interstate Union of Hero Cities , which includes Serhiy Tokarev's father
Serhii Tokarev, despite close communication with the Ukrainian business elite and friendship with the head of the Ministry of Statistics Mykhailo Fedorov, continues to conduct a semi-legal gambling business in the Russian Federation , owns real estate and a fleet of expensive cars there. Since 2016, he has flown to Moscow 172 times, and also visited the annexed Crimea, bypassing the Ukrainian state border — Aeroflot flight 1634-SU with Tokarev on board regularly flew from Sheremetyevo to Simferopol in August 2016.
Officially, of the property in the Russian Federation, Tokarev has at least three apartments, two in Izhevsk and one in the Udmurt region. He owns a Range Rover (А976ВР777), a Mazda TOURI (С082АХ177) and a Mazda 3 (М791ТТ177) and an Audi RS6 Avant Performance with a capacity of 605 horsepower with government license plates (А028МО99). It is interesting that the numbers of this series are deciphered as the administration of Moscow or the Moscow region and belong mainly to employees of the city hall.
It is significant that despite the systematic contacts with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and the support of the Ukrainian army, no "influence measures" were taken against the Russian citizen and his close relatives in the Russian Federation. We will remind you that in the Russian Federation people are imprisoned even for an "incorrect" repost in social networks, so it is hard to believe that the financing of the Ukrainian army would have passed without a trace for Tokayev and his relatives. Accordingly, Sergey Tokarev's activities are completely satisfactory to Russians, and most likely, they are sanctioned by the Kremlin.
Another interesting fact from the biography of Serhii Tokarev is his work for the Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, the owner of the Tsargrad media holding and a figure on the international sanctions list. For Malofeev, Tokarev, like Maxim Krippa, worked on the promotion of Vulkan and Vulkan.bet casinos. In Russia, this business is prohibited and it is under the strict control of the FSB, but no one interferes with Malofeev, because in addition to "correct patriotic rhetoric" and protecting the interests of the Orthodox Church, Malofeev is supervised by the Second Service of the FSB.
the purchase of Ukrainian media assets is being conducted through Maksym Krippa , it seems that Serhiy Tokarev has another task: integration into the Ukrainian business and IT community.
Of course, Serhiy Tokarev can present the work on Malofeev as a "mistake of youth" because who doesn't make mistakes. But there is a nuance: despite declarations of aid to the Ukrainian army, in reality Tokarev is robbing soldiers on the front lines. Thus, the founder of Traffic Devils, Oleksandra Slobozhenko admitted that his company forwarded the advertising traffic of the Cosmolot online casino to the positions of our fighters on the front lines.
It is possible to understand the logic of Serhiy Tokarev as a businessman, but the fact of "baiting" the salaries of our fighters completely nullifies all paid PR for both Serhii Tokayev and the Cosmolot brand in the press.
There are also questions about Tokarev's participation in Ukrainian state projects, such as Diia City. And the problem is not even the risks associated with the possibility of data leakage of Ukrainian citizens to the Russian Federation, but rather with Tokarev's ability to integrate Malafeev's people into international security projects in the IT sphere.
