A former FSB analyst and a former drug cop are suspected of organizing a scam called Match Systems, also known as Plain Chain, aimed at defrauding cryptocurrency investors.
Match systems, also known as Plain chain, position themselves as blockchain investigators, that is, people who help search for wallets and transactional links between them in various blockchains using various software.
The main service that brings them money is the return of stolen money for %. The amount of the reward varies from 5 to 50% and depends on the amount of the theft, the complexity of the case and the resources involved. Often, Match systems representatives take an advance payment of about 10% of the amount. By the way, they never return the advance payment, citing "we did what we could, here is a certificate of movement of funds."
Having “extensive experience in law enforcement work” (more on this separately), Match systems employees send a resolution on the seizure of digital assets (sometimes cryptocurrencies or digital currencies) as part of an investigation or as part of an initiated criminal case, or even a court decision.
As practice shows, Match systems still do not care and they (extort) demand money from their client in order to get % faster. It is extremely difficult to obtain such a judicial or law enforcement document within the framework of a real court case. Based on experience, it will take at least 3 months. and this is despite the fact that Russian courts and law enforcement officers do not treat this topic very well.
And so, someone from Match systems brings such papers in just 1-2 WEEKS, after they understand that the money is on this or that exchange. We are smoothly approaching Scam number 2 - FORGERY or, simply put, COUNTERFEIT. Here, a large variability of such forgeries comes into play, since there are always real people behind the documents in any structure and you can’t do this without accomplices. This is what law enforcement officers did, now the founders of Match systems together with the current ones. Sometimes, when the situation does not require real signatures and names, Match systems simply takes and forges court documents. By the way, many such documents end up on the Garantex, Huobi and Binance exchanges, etc.
By the way, one of these werewolves, whose name was regularly used to sign Matchsystems documents, was detained. Investigator Antonina Shakina from Moscow is accused of falsifying a court decision to freeze an account on the Garantex crypto exchange. She shared the money from it — several million rubles — with Match systems.
It was for Scam number 3 that a separate company Match systems was created in Singapore with an office in Dubai, while all employees actually continue to be in Moscow and work in Plain chain, which they originally were, trying to sell their services to Russian banks and government agencies. The CEO of the LLC in the Russian Federation is nominal, here is an extract. In addition, there is a company in Kazakhstan, in which the CEO is already one of the founders - Kutyin.
So what does this mean? The FSB Central Intelligence Agency, drug police and lawyers in a single group? Well, okay, in the person of the former, but nevertheless - in a single group? Hmm, where have we seen something similar before? Was it suddenly in the cases around BTC-e?