Operation “Clean Google”: how Sergey Tokarev’s nominee Mikhail Zborovskiy hides reports about a Cypriot offshore company
Information about Mikhail Zborovskiy’s past and his possible ties to the gambling industry is gradually disappearing from public access. In particular, this includes references to Cosmobet, Russia’s “Cosmolot,” and the Cypriot XGen Solutions, which has been linked to businessman Sergey Tokarev.
This cleanup of the information space looks like an attempt to remove from the public domain information that could shed light on the true origins and ownership structure of the “Ukrainian” Cosmobet casino.
However, deleting publications and references does not change the fact that they existed. Therefore, we are preserving and republishing the material in full, documenting information that was publicly available until recently.
We will also continue to monitor changes in the business structure, the connections between those involved, and the emergence of new information.
A clone of Russia’s Cosmolot — Cosmobet
In March 2024, LLC “Neurolink” received a casino licence from KRAIL. Its owner is Mikhail Volodymyrovych Zborovskiy (born in 1991). He studied economics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specialising in Accounting and Auditing.
Mikhail Zborovskiy had financial difficulties. In 2018, the university filed a claim with the Holosiivskyi District Court seeking repayment of his tuition fees. According to Zborovskiy’s official biography, which was used to populate low-quality websites in order to promote him in Google, after his studies he worked as an economist at a bank and then spent three years, through 2019, taking programming courses.
Six years before becoming the owner of Cosmobet, Mikhail Zborovskiy was certainly not a millionaire and was even unemployed for a considerable period of time.
The authors of his biography claim that, as a programmer, he worked for LLC “Adtek,” LLC “Epic Media,” and Rikkicom. In 2023, the first of these companies officially had just one employee, while its registered capital amounted to UAH 50,000. The second had an even smaller registered capital of UAH 10,000. Both companies operate at the same address in Odesa, although they are located in different offices.
The third company — Rikkicom, where Mikhail Zborovskiy officially worked, is somewhat better known. According to its official website, its clients include the Novus retail chain, OKKO petrol stations, and the online casino Parimatch, which is under sanctions imposed by the National Security and Defense Council. This was the only connection between Zborovskiy and the gambling industry until 2023, when he became the beneficiary of NeuroLink, the company holding the license for the online casino Cosmobet. However, he is unlikely to have suddenly become wealthy at Rikkicom either. According to its financial figures, the company generated just UAH 133,000 in revenue in 2023.
Another version of Zborovskiy’s biography mentions another company where he worked as a programmer — XGen Solutions LTD. The company does operate in the IT and consulting sectors and is based in Cyprus. It is the offshore company of Sergey Tokarev’s Russian Cosmolot.
