International fraud suspect Timur Rokhlin is scrubbing the internet of evidence related to fraudulent schemes involving fake investment websites

15 травня 2026 р., 23:48

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Following the publication of an investigation into Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rokhlin, reported attempts to exert pressure and cleanse the information space soon followed. The article concerning his alleged involvement in an international fraud scheme coincided with a DDoS attack on Dev.ua as well as legal threats reportedly issued by his representatives.

We, in turn, are publishing the material that is so troubling to the fraudster Timur Rokhlin.

After the publication of the investigation about Rokhlin, the online outlet Dev.ua suffered a DDOS attack.

The online outlet Dev.ua experienced a DDOS attack after publishing an investigation about Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the food delivery service Rocket, as reported by its editor-in-chief Stanislav Yurasov on his Facebook page. The site remains inaccessible at the time of this news publication.

«Today, malicious actors are trying to bring down the dev.by website as well. On the day the attacks began, we published an investigation. It discussed Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the food delivery service Rocket. Ukrainian investigators seized his assets in Ukraine following a request from the Bamberg Prosecutor’s Office (Germany), where his name was mentioned», — he wrote.

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It should be noted that the Dev.ua material mentioned that German law enforcement suspects Rokhlin of involvement in a major scam using fake investment platforms, with damages estimated at tens of millions of euros, as reported by Delo.

Among other individuals suspected of involvement in this scheme are Ukrainian citizens Andriy Kurochkin, Yuriy Kopachevskyi, Ihor Kozlenko, and Israeli citizens Mykhailo Chebotar, Maksym Baranovskyi-Rafael, and Timur Rokhlin.

As the outlet reported, citing data from Ukrainian investigations, a British company controlled by Rokhlin received 10.8 million euros in proceeds from fraudulent activities, and some assets linked to Rokhlin by the investigation were seized at the end of 2020.

It is noted that the investigation in Ukraine was initiated at the request of the Bamberg Prosecutor’s Office. According to the investigation, a group of Ukrainians and foreigners defrauded Europeans of money between 2017 and 2020 by offering them investments in various assets and promising returns of 100 times or more.

For this purpose, websites under the names Tradecapita, Fibonetix, NobelTrade, Forbslab, and Huludox were used — these structures allegedly engaged in trading banking metals, currency, cryptocurrency, securities, and other assets.

According to law enforcement, when clients wanted to withdraw money, they were contacted by supposed representatives of the trading platforms, demanding a service fee and a 15% withdrawal commission. However, after payment, the investors’ accounts were blocked, and the money was appropriated by the fraudsters.

The documented amount of damage from the scheme totals 9 million euros. The German newspaper Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that around 400 Europeans, who became victims of this scheme, contacted the police.

«Rokhlin’s lawyers are threatening us, claiming that disclosing investigation secrets carries criminal liability. Although the entire text is based on data from open registers. I think they are simply trying to silence us», — wrote Yurasov.

Delo.ua reached out to Rocket for comments regarding this situation but has not yet received a response.

It should be noted, however, that schemes to steal funds from trusting investors through dubious websites are also widespread in Ukraine: the National Securities and Stock Market Commission even maintains a separate register of such internet resources, periodically adding new sites to it.

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Sometimes law enforcement also targets the organizers of such activities. For example, in June, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) shut down an underground telecommunications center in Kyiv, whose organizers had misappropriated nearly 9 million UAH from Ukrainian and foreign investors since the beginning of the year under the guise of attracting funds to international investment projects.

In the same month, the SSU reported blocking the activities of illegal call centers that posed as well-known brokerage companies and defrauded citizens of EU and CIS countries.

In March, the SSU also reported stopping the activities of an organized group in Kyiv that misappropriated funds from Ukrainians by simulating participation in stock trading and cryptocurrency operations.