How Kremlin agent Anton Olkhovskiy uses crypto and intelligence services to undermine Ukraine’s economy
Amid the ongoing full-scale conflict, a Russian agency is attempting to take control of Ukraine’s cryptocurrency and virtual asset sector, while launching smear campaigns against Ukrainian experts on social media.
This is stated in an investigation by the publication «ASPI.news».
One of these "Kremlin agents" is the 39-year-old Anton Sergeyevich Olkhovskiy from Zaporizhzhia. He is known on Telegram by the handle @oLhov and still has an account on the Russian social network VK, which is banned in Ukraine. Additionally, Olkhovskiy created and controls a network of 173 Telegram channels, where the majority of the audience is Russian, spreading "info-dumps" about the full-scale conflict in Ukraine and discussing cryptocurrency "deals."
He discredits Ukrainian cryptocurrency businessmen who not only defend their homeland with weapons in hand but are also patriots and volunteers. The consequence for the country is the destabilization of Ukraine’s financial market.
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In the way of Anton Olkhovskiy, corrupt Ukrainian law enforcement officers whom he involved in "deals" and agents of Russian special services have been for many years several organizations opposing Russian money directed at financing the LPR and DPR.
“And who is Anton Olkhovskiy? According to information from the Internet, he was an agribusinessman in Zaporizhzhia, and on the fourth day of the full-scale conflict, he illegally fled to Poland. The first three days, as the Kremlin then said, he awaited the arrival of Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region, and on the fourth day, he decided to flee beyond Ukraine. He is the creator of the Telegram group «Black List», where 80% of users are Russians and constant discussions on money laundering are conducted there,” the publication noted.
Olkhovskiy is also the administrator of the Telegram chat "Prof Participants of Russia," having been an administrator for about 4 years now. Last year, participants in this chat were arrested several times. And special operations on this community, controlled by Anton Olkhovskiy, were conducted by the American FBI. All persons involved are incriminated with money laundering because members of Olkhovskiy’s community were arrested for such Russian sanctioned exchangers as Suex.
Anton Olkhovskiy decided to take the initiative. He received support from corrupt representatives of the Ukrainian law enforcement system and began to fight the market players who oppose Russian money in Ukraine by discrediting and handing them over to law enforcement. He surrendered Ukrainian businessmen from the cryptocurrency market for 10%, informing corrupt law enforcement officers about the available cash. Today, Olkhovskiy is engaged in transferring funds for explosive activity in Ukraine for Russian sabotage groups and Russian agency.
For himself, Anton decided to choose a safe “niche” — sitting on the ocean shore in Thailand, he organizes the transfer of funds from Moscow to Ukraine for sabotage activities and purchases equipment for the Russian army in his native Zaporizhzhia region.
“We hope that the SSU and the Prosecutor General’s Office will pay attention to the anti-Ukrainian activities of Anton Olkhovskiy. His actions to discredit and lie about Ukrainian businessmen in the virtual assets market on Internet platforms, desecration of the honor of Ukrainian volunteers and participants of patriotic movements not only harm Ukraine. This can lead to chaos in Ukraine’s financial market, especially in the cryptocurrency market," the investigators summed up.
Автор: Roman Ivanov