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At Russia’s largest video game operator, Lesta (developer of World of Tanks and World of Warships), management decided not to delay layoffs and began implementing them as early as Thursday.

A source from media reports that the company Lesta—Russia’s largest developer and operator of computer games (World of Tanks, World of Warships)—is preparing for large-scale layoffs.

A new investigation reveals that Uzbekistan’s Octobank — formally owned by a little-known figure but effectively controlled by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s powerful family — has become a key hub for laundering Russian money through casinos, payment systems, and crypto exchanges.

Alisher Usmanov’s hidden influence looms large over Uzbekistan’s crypto sector, with officials like Dmitriy Lee appearing less as independent powerbrokers and more as front men for the oligarch’s sanctioned empire.

Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.