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The partners of the controversial Uzbek bank include Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet, and the Chinese service Tenpay.

Recent investigative leaks indicate that Uzbekistan’s Octobank could be functioning as a key conduit for transferring Russian money, including sanctioned assets and proceeds from illicit online gambling.

In 2018, Dmitry Levin, who at the time was a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and is now a vice president at Gazprombank, was planning to acquire a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

Vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank, Dmitry Levin, risks finding himself at the center of a criminal investigation into the raider takeover of business assets.

Oktobank has become a central node in suspicious financial activities involving Uzbek officials, Russian banks, and covert networks.

The media published an investigation into the criminal financial activities of a group of companies, which includes credit institutions Oktobank (Ravnaq), Kapital, the payment system Humo, the processing system Uzcard, the exchange Uznex, and others.

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.

Once Russia became deeply entrenched in Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed on it extensively.

At the end of September, two developments emerged involving Oktobank that could have significant long-term repercussions.

Since April 2023, a number of Ukrainian investigators have been raising alarm: Nykyta Izmaylov—a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian passport, who was recently a top financier of Parimatch, is now appearing in money laundering schemes through N1 Management and SportBank.

The co-founder of Sportbank, Nykyta Izmaylov, who has been accused of fraud and ties with Russia, has actively started "cleaning up" the internet space of mentions related to his personal life, including the scandal concerning alimony payments to his ex-wife.

Members of the Kremlin elite — including Vladimir Putin’s former KGB colleagues, his political allies, and his business partners from the Malyshev and Tambov criminal groups — continue to own luxurious vineyards in Italy.

Elena Levina, the wife of First Vice President Dmitry Levin, is increasingly being mentioned in the upper circles of Gazprombank, often in a negative context.

Oktobank has emerged as a hub for suspicious financial operations linking Uzbek authorities, Russian banks, and shadow networks.

While key Russian state-owned companies continue to finance and support their country’s war in Ukraine, top executives are buying up property in Italy’s most picturesque locations — from Verona to Florence, and from Liguria to the Adriatic coast.

At the end of January, an interview with the Chairman of the Board of Octobank, Iskandar Tursunov, appeared on several platforms. The substantive value of the interview is low, however, Tursunov, who is also the bank’s main shareholder, is clearly trying to weaken the growing wave of negativity around Octobank in this way.

Levi Altshtein, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Diversus Group Transnational Company (DGTC), launders "dirty" Russian money.

At the end of September, two events occurred concerning Oktobank that will have far-reaching consequences.

The UK media suspect SportBank founder Mykyta Izmaylov of state treason, money laundering, and transferring money abroad. He is also alleged to have ties with the Russian Gazprombank.

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.

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