Paid PR after the exposés: how “crypto guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi is trying to save FFA’s reputation

15 лютого 2026 р., 10:19

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Paid PR after the exposés: how “crypto guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi is trying to save FFA’s reputation

The fraudulent mentor is trying to cover his tracks.

“Oleksandr Orlovskyi reviews and the full truth about the FFA community” and “Oleksandr Orlovskyi reviews and what is known about the FFA Crypto Rise conference” — articles bearing such headlines started to surface shortly after the first installment of the investigation into the CRiME projects and other high-profile cases was published.

The authors of the investigation found out that the Financial Freedom Academy (FFA Academy), on behalf of which Oleksandr Orlovskyi sells cryptocurrency courses for a lot of money, is most likely a fraudulent scheme.

Obviously, both the crypto-mentor’s "students" and his potential victims might have had a natural question after our article "What is the crypto-rogue Oleksandr Orlovskyi hiding" was published: "Sasha, aren’t you fooling us?"

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“Of course not!” Oleksandr Orlovskyi answered with a sincere smile, like all rogues, and ordered the placement of “image” articles on more or less popular information resources for several hundred dollars more.

At the same time, Orlovskyi’s Telegram bot , which had been deathly silent for some time, began to gush with ads and positive news. We noticed this post:

As you can see, Oleksandr Orlovskyi calls on members of his crypto-sect (and those who have not yet joined it) to reread the articles about him posted in the popular online publications tsn.ua and focus.ua .

Both of these articles, written by Orlovskyi’s PR people, appeared last fall, when this cryptomentor was first accused of fraud. Then, negative reviews about Orlovskyi were scrubbed with great difficulty and the Internet was "concreted" with positivity.

The fact that these are precisely “ordered” articles and not editorials is indicated by the headings under which the opuses were published.

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That is, the publications that published the “positive” do not even acknowledge, but emphasize that the info-gypsy Oleksandr Orlovskyi paid them, and as an advertiser is personally responsible for the paid stream of consciousness.

If we take the latest articles praising Orlovskyi, then his servants did not bother, but took last year’s “PR” as a basis (and, moreover, made a mistake with the title of the “original” article).

The reader who enters "Oleksandr Orlovskyi" into the search engine is asked to form his own opinion about the person based on an article published under the "PR" banner, placed in the "press releases" section (that is, again for money). Look:

Anyone tempted to shell out their savings for this mentor’s courses should ask themselves a number of questions. Why is a successful crypto businessman, as Oleksandr Orlovskyi positions himself, forced to pay the media to tell the public about his "successes"? If the article is paid for, then how true is it? If it is not entirely true, then why is Oleksandr Orlovskyi paying for the dissemination of "not entirely truth"?

It should be noted that according to the CRiME investigation and [high-profile cases], there are signs of financial fraud in the activities of the Financial Freedom Academy. The money for training from Orlovskyi is not even collected by Oleksandr Orlovskyi himself, but by individual entrepreneurs who have the characteristics of "front men".

In particular, sole proprietor Serhutina Kateryna, to whose account Orlovskyi’s accomplices tried to receive more than 40 thousand UAH from the author of the investigation. This individual was registered only a month before sending the author an invoice.

The author suggests that most of the payments from students to whom Alexander Orlovsky promised quick and easy enrichment are made through the same "front" entrepreneurs. Perhaps to cover their tracks in case of prosecution.

The author comes to the conclusion that Alexander Orlovsky is a typical representative of such a type of crooks as "info gypsies". We are talking about scammers who, posing as successful professionals, sell information products for big money that are absolutely worthless. In essence, this is about taking possession of someone else’s property (money) by deception or abuse of trust. That is, a crime provided for by Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud). And since Alexander Orlovsky himself is clearly not involved here, then, most likely, we have Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - fraud committed on an especially large scale and / or by an organized group. And this is from five to twelve years in the "zone" with confiscation of property."

According to various estimates, Alexander Orlovsky could have gotten his hands on around $4.5 million in this way.

At the same time, the investigation allows for the possibility that Alexander Orlovsky is not the ultimate beneficiary of the fraud at the Financial Freedom Academy – more experienced crooks may be behind the scam.