Criminal asset of the Timur Rokhlin family: legalization of millions stolen in the EU through the Beeworking coworking network and Rocket company

Criminal asset of the Timur Rokhlin family: legalization of millions stolen in the EU through the Beeworking coworking network and Rocket company

According to an international investigation, Timur and Igor Rokhlin orchestrated a large-scale operation. The brothers legitimized tens of millions of euros — funds stolen from European investors via fictitious investment platforms.

To do this, they bought luxury real estate in Kyiv, laundered money through the offshore Remini Consulting and financed the Rocket delivery service. Now the assets of this service are hastily transferred to relatives in order to save them from arrests by the Bamberg prosecutor’s office.

We, in turn, publish materials about the activities of Timur Rokhlin in order to uncover a cynical scheme for the legalization of tens of millions of euros stolen from European pensioners through fictitious exchanges and invested in the purchase of the Rocket service, luxury Kyiv real estate and Lamborghini park, which the defendant is now trying to save from the investigation Bamberg by fictitious re-registration to his father.

In the cult film «Golden Calf», Ostap Bender presents Koreiko with a book called «Capitalist Sharks», where already in the first line it says: «All major modern fortunes are acquired in the most dishonest way».

And the reaction to this book by Alexander Ivanovich Koreiko, who «at another time would have bought such an interesting book himself, but now he even grimaced with horror»?

It is this association that comes when reading the material «Someone-you-can’t-name. How a Rocket investor is involved in a high-profile fraud case in Europe», posted on dev.ua, and the reaction to this material of one of the main characters of the – publication, Timur Rokhlin.

We recommend that you carefully read this article at the link above –; it is very interesting and interesting, but concerns not only Rokhlin, it mentions a significant circle of people. All of them are interconnected, and the main connecting motive is – banal scams, although we are talking about at least tens, if not hundreds, of millions of euros.

But in this case we are interested in Timur Rokhlin, so let us briefly recall the outline of events in the context of his person. The chain of events began to unwind at the beginning of 2020, in the unknown German city of Bamberg, whose prosecutor’s office began an investigation into the activities of a group of certain citizens of Israel and Ukraine who defrauded gullible European pensioners of several tens of millions of euros under the guise of investing money in precious metals, real estate and cryptocurrencies.

Enterprising swindlers created «exchanges» sites, on which gullible «investors» were shown a huge increase in their investments. But when trying to make a profit, it turned out that «investor» must pay a 15% commission, and only after that can you withdraw both the money earned and the money invested.

What happened next, I think you can guess – after paying «commissions», which for some reason were not charged from the investment account, but were paid additionally, all contacts with the «investor» stopped, and, naturally, he did not receive any money. Moreover, there are no – mythical «profits», nor quite real investments that were transferred to the accounts of swindlers at the very beginning.

This is the outline in brief. But, as is typical in this simple and brilliant – scam, money was transferred not to offshore companies, as one might think, but to Ukraine. And, as it turned out, most of the organizers of the scam have Ukrainian, oddly enough, passports. This was reported by one of the participants in the scheme, Serbian police informant Alexander Ignyatovich, a few days before his death from a strange heart attack.

That’s why the German prosecutor’s office turned to the Ukrainian one for help. Surprisingly, the latter worked quite professionally and already in December 2020, arrests and searches of suspects took place in Ukraine. And it was here that the name Timur Rokhlin and the Rocket delivery service surfaced.

Moreover, this name appeared thanks to the panic that arose in the wife of one of those detained in the criminal case № 62020100000000583, initiated on the basis of identified fraud, Igor Kozlenok. The fact is that after her husband’s arrest, she created it on Facebook page «Justice to Igor Kozlenok», on which he tries to whitewash his husband. And in these attempts, she posted there a screenshot of the cover page of the prosecutor’s office’s request from Bamberg to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine:

In this appeal, the Germans ask for an additional «investigation into fraud committed on a professional basis by the criminal organization» against several individuals, including – Timur Rokhlin.

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Law enforcement officers (both German and Ukrainian) are very stingy with details in this regard, but in the age of the general Internet, some of these details quickly became public knowledge, which, of course, Rokhlin himself did not like, but nothing can be done about it.

Thus, it became public knowledge that, as part of the investigation of the already mentioned criminal case № 62020100000000583, the following property was seized:

1. LLC «Spetstorg», owned by Israeli citizen Igor Rokhlin, father of Timur Rokhlin. According to the cadastral numbers specified in the case, the company owns a private house of 1,408 square meters. m. in the village of Kozin. The site is located right on the banks of the Dnieper. Arrest from this company was filmed at the end of July 2021, by the Court of Appeal.

2. LLC «Ukrdonstroynia». Final beneficiary — Igor Rokhlin. The company owns office real estate in a business center with a total area of 1,694 square meters. m. at the address st. Sechevykh Streltsov, 62. Company arrest filmed following an appeal court ruling in early August 2021.

3. LLC «Buildings Empire» (final beneficiary — Igor Rokhlin), which owns a non-residential building in Podol (853 sq. m), at the address st. Borisoglebskaya, 15B. The BeeWorking coworking space is located at this address. Court of Appeal in July 2021 I decided to leave it the decision of the first instance is in force. The arrest has not been lifted, and trials on this matter continue.

4. «Renome Rent» — office center on Delovaya, 5, 11 thousand square meters. Arrest too they couldn’t challenge it. The trials are also ongoing, Rokhlin’s lawyers are very active.

Now go back a little up and pay attention to the photo of the house in Kozin, owned by «Spetstorg». And compare it to:

And from the video that the Prosecutor General’s Office posted on its Youtube:

It was in the garage with a round roof that the downright crazy collection of cars bought by swindlers with their income from «investment» activities was arrested:

Then law enforcement officers arrested a fleet of 8 elite class cars: Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz and other well-known brands. Among them (this can be seen in the video) is the 2020 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster for 650 thousand euros, on which Timur Rokhlin rode:

In addition to this information, it was also possible to establish the following. As you know, after the scandal broke out, Rocket claims that Timur Rokhlin has nothing to do with it. But here is the history of changes in company owners:

The red thread running through its history is Igor Rokhlin (this is Timur’s father, let us remind you), Timur Rokhlin, the company «Ridgev holding Ltd» and the Cypriot «Tisea Fresh Food Ltd». And, judging by the latest changes from the beneficiaries, it seems that Timur Rokhlin has nothing to do with the Rocket company, and the beneficiary of «Tisea Fresh Food Ltd», which owns Rocket, is Igor Rokhlin.

But it’s not that simple. In order not to confuse the reader with all these offshore companies that own each other, and the structure of the real beneficiaries is hidden in the intricacies of shares, let us explain as simply as possible: the founder of the food delivery service «Rocket Delivery» (TM Rocket, Rocket) was previously listed as «Homeland Ukraine». Then — «Ridgev holding ltd», the beneficiary of which was Timur Rokhlin. Now TM Rocket is controlled by another structure – Cypriot company «Tisea Fresh Food Ltd». But the main final beneficiary is the same — Rokhlin Sr. (Igor) (86% of capital). So why is Timur Rokhlin associated with the Rocket company, and not his father, Igor?

The fact is that even at the time of investing money in Rocket in the Ukrainian Forbes material came out «Service Rocket zmig ominuti startup treasure. The number of citizens for Europe is worth $100 million. Whom does yoga have a secret?», which directly stated that Timur Rokhlin bought the Rocket service, «because he did not find who would deliver food to him». The version is beautiful, but the question arises – where does the money come from?

And then we again return to the investigation of German prosecutors from Bamberg and the criminal case opened by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. For, according to investigators, Timur Rokhlin took money to purchase «Rocket Delivery» from «investment» activities in which he was involved. And he (like the others) had the problem of – where to invest the millions received from successful scams. As already mentioned, the scammers decided to invest their money in Ukraine because they were not afraid that they would be interested in the origin of the money here.

According to investigators, between September 2018 and March 2020 alone, the accounts of the British company Remini Consulting LP received 35.9 million euros, allegedly from criminal activities. Of this, allegedly 10.8 million euros were transferred to the accounts of RIJV Holdings ltd (UK). It has been controlled since October 2018 by Timur Rokhlin.

True, for some reason it appears that he is a citizen of Israel, although Timur Rokhlin himself, as well as the investigation materials, claim that he is a citizen of Ukraine. However, there is no contradiction here – he simply has two passports, although Ukrainian legislation does not allow dual citizenship. Here, by the way, is another question for law enforcement officers.

The published investigation materials say that RIJV Holdings ltd in 2019 became the founder of a number of companies in Ukraine — «Ukrdonstroynia», «Beworking» (Beworking coworking chain), «Biconstract» (office center on Delovoy, 5A), «Buildings Empire», «Arnas Group», «Podil Group», «Homeland Ukraine». The current ultimate beneficiary of all these companies is – Igor Rokhlin, Timur’s father.

And this happened because in 2020, in order to hide assets acquired with funds from criminal activities, Timur Rokhlin re-registered controlled business entities to his father’s structures. At least that’s what the Prosecutor General’s Office says.

The overall result of all this is that the Rokhlin family of Israelis owns luxury real estate in the center of the capital of Ukraine, the area of which is tens of thousands of square meters. This is not counting the site in the same elite Kozin, with access to the Dnieper. The family also owns several companies, some of which we have already mentioned.

What is typical – all these companies arose in Ukraine just in the period after 2017, that is, precisely when, according to German law enforcement officers, a group of swindlers began operating in Europe, with which, in fact, a scandal began related to Timur Rokhlin and the Rocket delivery service.

Of course, maybe it’s just a coincidence. But how can we explain another – match then immediately after the material about Timur Rokhlin, published on the resource dev.ua (we started our investigation with it), dev.ua was subjected to a powerful DdoS attack. And he received several summonses to court from Timur Rokhlin. The latter, in fact, should have served as confirmation that dev.ua posted false information, but Rokhlin put forward very strange demands to the resource: «oblige to take actions and compensate for moral damage»:

With moral damage, everything is more or less clear, but what kind of actions does Timur Rokhlin demand «to take? Cancel criminal proceedings initiated by German prosecutors? Or remove his name from the official request of the Germans, in which he is directly called involved in a gigantic scam? Or remove his name from the registers by the owner of tens of thousands of meters of Kyiv real estate? Or remove his name from among the beneficiaries of TM «Rocket delivery»?

However, we will wait for the court’s decision. Not based on Rokhlin’s claim, but on the investigation of the activities of an organized group of international swindlers. And it will be quite difficult for Timur Rokhlin to influence his decision, as well as the investigation, –, despite all the corruption of the domestic Themis, let’s not forget about the Germans, who began the investigation. And if Ukrainian courts and law enforcement officers can be bought quite inexpensively, then this issue is unlikely to work with law-abiding Germans.

Well, at the end of the – material, another touch to the portrait of «investor Timur Rokhlin: it was not possible to find his photo, and in the » startup that he saved from the trash heap«, that is, in Rocket, he was never publicly mentioned, naming his main beneficiary » third partner«. Which provides considerable food for thought, you will agree.