The administrator of the Ukrainian national team Kistkin is suspected of laundering UAH 130 million

In 2020, the Main Investigation Department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against the senior administrator of the Ukrainian national football team Oleksandr Kistkin on the facts of legalization of property obtained by criminal means and tax evasion on a particularly large scale.

Amount of unpaid taxes for 2016-2020 (since the start of work in the national team - approx.) is estimated at 115 million hryvnia. More than UAH 130 million was received at the cost of legalization or money laundering.

Tribuna.com became aware of the production details. It features Vadym Shabliy and other football agents, as well as current and former Shakhtar players.

According to the movement of funds in Kistkin's bank accounts, it was established that he mainly interacted with Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov, the former Donetsk team player and Dnipro-1 head coach Oleksandr Kucher, as well as Shabliy.

In addition to them, the list of counterparties includes Yaroslav Rakitsky, Viktor Kovalenko, Maxim Malyshev, Sergey Krivtsov, Bogdan Butko, Junior Moraesh, Vasily Kobin, Nikolay Matvienko, football agents Maxim Dudchenko, Alexei Alekhin and Alexander Karpov.

The investigation is ongoing, but since it is pre-trial, the details are not disclosed.