A gift to Putin on the anniversary of "SVO": Russian oligarch Malofeev buys Forbes Ukraine

The owner of the Ukrainian version of Forbes, a businessman of Armenian origin, Arthur Granz sells the publication of Maxim Krippi, a trusted person of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. The parties are in the phase of active negotiations, Malofeev demands to accelerate from Krippa, as the Ukrainian Forbes should become a "gift" of Vladimir Putin on the anniversary of his own.

About the details of the agreement on the purchase of Ukrainian Forbes by the Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev in the exclusive investigation of journalists of the edition 360ua.news

For the Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, the acquisition of Forbes Ukraine is a chance to get into a narrow circle of Putin close to Vladimir Putin, like the propagandist Margarita Simonyan. Malofeev owner of the Russian media of the Tsargrad Holding, sponsor of the Russian Spring for a long time has hit the thresholds of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation with a request to launch his own political project of conservative-patriotic direction, but did not receive the "blessing" of Putin.

At the same time, Malofeev, under the control of the second service of the FSB, managed to achieve significant success in working with the "Orthodox" and Russian patriotic environment, residents of the DNR/LNR, and the so -called "welfare". As a result, Malofeev was given the opportunity to bring their people in the Duma .

But the level of media competition in the "patriotic field" in the Russian Federation is quite high and taking into account the possibilities of other players, Malofeev is somewhere at the level of "third tier", and the only chance to break into the "Higher League" is to bring Vladimir Putin what could not bring others: a cult American brand. And if not global, then at least Ukrainian.

Recall that recently the Russians have practically managed to take possession of the global brand forbes, because of the Kremlin's Magnat Mushawa Musayev's Magnate, but the actually drawn agreement broke after publication in The Washington Post. "I just bought a global Forbes. You understand when you have a key to your most respected world brand, this key will give me access to anyone," says Musayev on one of the entries published by WP. Musayev's merits were highly appreciated in Moscow: according to the Kremlin, the image of the Kanal, the image of the Kanal , "buying Forbes is a recognition that one honest person has been able to do more than all Russian diplomacy in recent years."

Forbes Ukraine, not the first Ukrainian media to get into the field of view of Maxim Krippa and Konstantin Malofeev. Since the beginning of the year, the Kryppa-Malofeev communication through false persons has already purchased three large Ukrainian media: delo.ua, Glavcom and ain.ua.

The media resources of delo.ua and Glavcom were issued to the citizen of Ukraine Snopko Tatiana Davidovna, a specialist in communications, who has been working with Maxim Krippo and his partner Maxim Polyakov for more than 10 years. The fact that Tatiana is a "pound" is not difficult to guess, taking into account the background Snopko: a hired manager, with a residence permit in one of the "Khrushchev" of the Dnieper sleeping area.

After Tatiana Snopko's connection with Maxim Krippo was in the media , the Forbes Ukraine decided to find a new “pound”, more status and less related to Maxim Kripa, to make an agreement on the purchase of Forbes. But the final beneficiaries remained the same: Krippa and Malofeev.

Among the Ukrainian establishment, Maxim Krippa is known as a representative of oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, worked for a long time in the structures of the Russian oligarch manager in sales and promoted his projects in Ukraine. It was Malofeev who helped his CEO partially bypass the gembling prohibition in the Russian Federation, which made it possible to work unobstructed illegal online casino brand "Volkan" by Maxim Kripp and his namesake Polyakov. More on the work of the volcano in Ukraine and Russia in the investigation of the OSINT resource Black Box: “ Maxim Kripp and Casino“ Vulk@N ”. As a partner of the Russian oligarch buy Ukrainian media ”

The son of Konstantin Malofeev Cyril, a Russian cyber -athlete, played for Virtus.pro Alexander Kohanovsky and Anton Cherepennikov. Cherepennikov was engaged in the development Citadel system , which helps the Russian special services to track Internet users and listen to phones.

It was for Malofeyev Jr. in 2020 that the Russian oligarch wanted to buy the Dnieper Kiev Hotel, where they planned to hold cyber-sports competitions . At that time, the "Smartland" LLC was chosen on the role of "pound", and the winner in the auction was Smartland LLC, registered in Brovary on Kyivska Street 130, which according to the YouControl belongs to Maxim Krippi.

With regard to interesting matches, it is worth noting the presence in the portfolio of the assets of Maxim Kripppa registered in Ukraine three companies called "Citadel": LLC "Citadel Architects" (44240381), LLC "Citadel innovizhnz" (41748785). It is interesting that one of the trusted persons in Ukraine is an ex-deputy from the People's Front Valery Babenko, who is directly related to cybersecurity technologies and information protection.

At the same time, Maxim Krippa himself attempted to go into Ukrainian politics, running in 2015 in the Kyiv City Council from the Self -help party, and in the Ukrainian media it is possible to find enough information about Krippa investments in cybersport and other startups. But at the same time, athletes from Russia are still in the cyber-sports teams of Maxim Krippa, and his online casino volcano continue albeit illegally, but to work in the Russian Federation illegally. Therefore, buying Ukrainian media resources, fits in well with the strategy of development of the political project of Krippa-Malafeev in Ukraine.

Concerning the sale of Ukrainian Forbes, which can be part of the Russian media holding "Tsargrad" Konstantin Malofeev in the near future, arthur of Granzi should pay attention to the list of countries that have already imposed sanctions against Malafeev . Forbes forbes Ukraine Krippi, because of any mediator, is a direct involvement in the expansion of "Tsargrad". Accordingly, the funds received for the Ukrainian Forbes can only be spent in "swamps".