Chapter 9. Investors blame Tikhonov and Kontorovich are indignant. And getting ready to flee from Russia?
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Imagine that you are the founders of a startup thatalready collected a decent amount of money from enthusiastic citizens. What are you going to do? Saw the project to the end without guarantees of success and knowing that millions have already been collected? Or imitate the activity and no less actively master the collected cryptocurrency for personal needs? And then the second round of ICO, to “skin” naive citizens in the second round?
The vast majority of crypto startups have donechoosing the second option. So what if it looks like a financial pyramid - you have to live here and now! And they’ll put you in prison later... If they put you in prison at all. Therefore, some, immediately after training, wrote the word “penis” and gave them slippers in an unknown direction. Butthe majority imitated the activity until a certain time, and then performedexit scam. Also according to the training manual of financial pyramids of the 90s. What it looks like - just read the materials in “Cryptocriticism” (Zen, Telegram, Smart-lab).
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IMPORTANT NOTE! Being scammed in business and being lured into financial pyramids almost always starts with relatives and friends.Because scammers have no reason to believethat relatives and friends will not be able to take revenge due to the fact that first you will have to relate family ties and friendship to write off at a loss. This is a complex process in itself and for many simply irresistible. And only at its completion will a person be ready to pack up and strike back. Therefore, if friends and relatives are trying to ruin you, then you should treat them at least as strangers. And it’s better right away as to enemies. This will save you a lot of time, effort, money and nerves. The entire experience of Cryptocriticism clearly speaks of this.
And by the way, the current financial pyramids have long been a service and infrastructure for people to defraud each other, essentially on their own.
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It’s easy to guess that MARK.SPACE, after receiving crypto money in a crypto wallet, began to think a lot about whether they should keep their promises. That's whythe participants were the first to sufferbounty programs. They promised one volume of tokens – allocated 20 times less. In the end, the tokens were released - the tokens were taken away. Why share with the plebs now?
Then, after the final drop in the price of the token to half and the lack of clear news about the development of the projectMARK.SPACEawarded a special die“The creator of the topic is a fraudster”on the main cryptocurrency forum Bitcointalk. It is awarded for “exceptional merit” in relations with investors.
Further discussion of MarkSpace takes place in CryptoScamChat, where many interesting details emerge.
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/51240
</em>For example, aboutit was about an unplanned additional issue of tokens, which was quickly merged on the exchanges and, probably, someone from Markspace made good money on this. And the fact that this clearly violates the rules of token sale - yes to hell with these rules!
Denis Polulyakhov, through the "parliamentarian", tried to express his disagreement, but they threw him in a panama hat in response.
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/51274
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/51278
</em>Moreover, a person joins the dialoguenamed after Cyril, who called himself one of the first investors of MarkMody / ParkMark. And which Mark.Space called "scam since 2013." Moreover, he was clearly familiar with Trotzyuk-Altstein.
t.me/cryptoscamchat/51246
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/51282
Well, I also found some good information on the Mark.Space advisor. What a project - such an advisor. Not surprised.
In general, to attract the attention of Cryptoscamchatand the Cryptoman channel was a bad idea (although “Cryptokritika” remembers his ugly failure with the famous SONM scam). But this was not the end of bad news for Malkin, Tikhonov, Kontorovich and co.
An article has been published on Shitcoinoffering"MARK.SPACE throws three-time Stanley Cup winner 4 million". Malkin in the title and in the preview picture.And with a lot of photographs of Tikhonov and Kontorovich inside. And since the article was in English, this meant that the information could reach a wide range of foreign investors and regulators.
Well, in the end, the “hamsters” began to suspect something on their own…
Source: t.me/markspaceioRUS/29643
Source: t.me/markspaceioRUS/33091
However, you were warned that tokens must be drained immediately as soon aswill be possible. It’s better not to enter this project at all. Here, for example, is an article dated March 12, 2018 on AllCrypto. Bad VR, bad crypto - is it much clearer?
Moreover, revealed fraud with a non-existent partnership with LandRover - like icing on the cake.In turn, we asked the Moscow representative office of Adidas about a partnership with MarkSpace - they also don’t know about the project. However, lying about a partnership is generally an ICO classic.
Source: twitter.com/markspaceio/status/930787426435465216
Source: www.allcrypto.com/ico/mark-space-vr-mixed-crypto/
The publications did not go unnoticed by YanaKontorovich and Anton Tikhonov. On August 29, 2019, they hastened to outline their vision of the situation in Cryptoscamchat. At the same time, they decided to threaten criminal prosecution for libel. Also a classic. Whenever you write something not very complimentary about an ICO, the founders immediately come running and threaten to imprison you. They are worried, you see.
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/54709
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/54710
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/54711
Source: t.me/cryptoscamchat/54714
Selected quotes from the above by Jana and Anton:
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“Before posting an article about Evgeni Malkin’s investment, they personally checked the information and independently contacted Evgeniy to get his comments.”
“The main lie of your source is that no one deceived him. Eugene didn’t like your article very much either and he is ready to personally confirm that there were no fraudulent actions against him, and the information in the article is just slander ”
"We do not run GitHub and this is an urgent requirement of our service station. Moreover, we have never hidden this. We are not ready to share our developments yet. They cost us a lot. "
“There are many reasons:and price pegging to ETH, BTC, and “crypto-winter”, and lack of liquidity on exchanges, and mistakes in marketing and working with the community and much more. But if you want to accuse us of selling tokens on the exchange, then this is simply categorically unacceptable! The project did not sell a single token on the exchange after the token saleI assure you, and we are ready to prove it if we consider it necessary. ”
“The fall in the price of ETH and BTC is also a majorthe cause of the funding crisis of the project, because we did not receive USD, cryptocurrencies, and, for the most part, it was ETH, which fell in price from about 5 to 19 times compared to the price during the token sale. Of course, the drop in the value of the fund raised, expressed in USD, greatly influenced the speed of the project. ”
“About Anton. Yes, indeed, he is my husband. Yes, he initially came up with this project and worked on it. But when we went international, he handed over control to me since My education and knowledge of a foreign language was obviously important for successful development. Anton became my main adviser. Yes, one of the reasons, but not the only reason we called the MARK project, is the birth of a son. ”
“We do everything we can and give it 300%. If desired, welcome to our office, get to know each other, look at our developments, maybe talk with Eugene (most likely by phone), ask any questions you may have and you will understand that SCAM and fraud are certainly not about us. We are open for dialogue!”
"If you don't come to meet us Eugene and I will be forced to make an official statement, where your article for the most part will simply crumble and it turns out that it is no longer us who are SCAM, but you, since you are publishing unverified information...”
“In the end, because you wrote that we are a scam, people developed their thoughts even further. AND they wrote about Malkin that he was dragged into a scam project. He came to our office, he is generally shocked by what they write about us and about him. ”
"If you don't do this, then Yana and Malkin will make an official statement, that the fact that he was cheated and deceived (and the article was published mostly about this) is all a lie. And then the article will smell like a very big scam. This is the first the second - we will sue you and the publication for disseminating false information."
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And you know what's interesting? There are still no statements. But there is an advertisement for the sale. Hmmmmm ... There seems to be no statement.
Source: auto.ru/cars/used/sale/lexus/lx/1091832514-92ee7dac
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The MMM policy series is symptomatic. History made a graceful joke. But it’s still interesting to find out where Yana and her family are going? To Thailand, whose embassy she and Anton have already visited?
A normal choice to sit out the hustle and bustle. And there is a place where you can easily exchange crypto. The main thing in such a case is not to get caught in thermorectal cryptanalysis, like one blogger in Phuket.
Chapter 10. Where is the money?
While Yana Kontorovich is wondering where to emigrate (she has already decided the issue with the sale of Lexus), we will consider one interesting fact.
Source: Autocode
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Source: Autocode
Owned by CEO MARK.SPACE Lexus LX570 was purchased at the end of March 2018. Estimated cost - 7 million rubles. A month after the end of the ICO. Lexus will be sold on September 25, 2019.. Less than a month after publishing with CryptoMusic and Cryptoscamchat. Interesting what coincidences.
Let's make a couple of assumptions:
1) There will be no joint statement by Malkin and Kontorovich. Yana dumps property that impedes emigration (Has the traffic police paid off fines? otherwise the border guards will not let go)
2) The money collected at the ICO went not only to the development of Markspace, but also to buy a car for Jan. However, such behavior in the crypto-party and among “typical startups” was the norm.
2a) We can assume that Yana was able to allow the luxury SUV to work in addition to Mark.Space. Here are just unloading from SPARK on legal entities, where it is present more likely indicates the “eating” of investors’ money. No, of course, Yana could set herself a higher salary and save up - but that’s also somehow smells waste, no?
Moreover, 9 months after the ICO, before the new year, Anton Tikhonov will have a new black Mercedes E-class. Estimated purchase price - 3.5 million rubles. Coincidence again?
In general, we need to figure out how the money was collected on the token sale and how it was spent. Suddenly, our assumptions are fundamentally wrong.
How is token sale, if very rude: the organizers start their own special crypto wallet, then with the help of a smart contract (if simple, a set of scripts) tokens are given out to the hamsters instead of the sent bitcoins and ethers and it is fixed to whom, how much and at what price. If there are several types of tokens, then what rights are assigned to them. All this business takes place on the startup website or on a special page dedicated to the ICO. Various measures to prevent fraud, hacks, arbitrary actions of the organizers and other unpleasant things are hung from above. And also additional scripts for processing user data - for example, so as not to sell tokens to people who are not from the “white list”. All this will traditionally contain holes, backdoors, govnokod and work through the ass with a bunch of jambs. And half of the above will also be outsourced without proper control. They will put a bolt on the long-suffering KYC / AML or hold it purely for a show - because there is not so much “clean” money in the crypt, but money is needed.
Actually, this is how the technical part of a typical token sale was structured during the era of the now-defunct ICO boom. The question remained: who does the wallet belong to? A it is owned and / or controlled by usually very specific individuals, because putting crypto on the balance sheet of a legal entity -it's still an attraction. Well, in the end - why? It’s one thing when the collected money is controlled by the office, and another when it’s actually you personally. These are, you know, two big differences. Which, of course, periodically ended in fights and showdowns for money, with subsequent trials like in Tezos - but who stopped that?
Therefore, in search of the dough, it would be wise to look at what happened in the foreign legal entities of Markspace: MarkSpace OU (Estonia) and Mark.Space PTE (Singapore). And who owns them at all.
According to the documents valid during the ICO, markspace.io domain was owned by a new Singapore legal entity. Let's remember this. Who owned the company itself? Let's go to bizfile.gov.sg.
Kontorovich - 65%, Malkin - 20%, Ershov(co-founder of Mark.Space) - 5%, Shlyapin (technical director of Mark.Space) - 5%. Judging by their shares, then Yana and Evgeniy should be primarily responsible for everything that happened. And here neither Polulyakhov nor Tikhonov are on the list. Hmm, this is kind of strange. Not only do people negotiate with counterparties and investors, but also the domain was on Anton, not on a Singapore company. It’s awkward for investors, isn’t it?
Source: nic.ru/whois
However, we are very interested in the domain. We are interested in money. But here's the problem: Bizfile is unable to order the company's financial report. Company profile - please report - not allowed. There is simply no such active button. And we are almost ready to spend 50 Singapore dollars.
Let's guess why this happened. Probably... (drum roll!) because the report was either not submitted or the report was submitted “zero”. What does "the legal entity did NOT actually conduct commercial activities and money transactions did NOT go through it".
What can we assume next? Probably... (drum roll again!) money from ICO did not come to him at all. Where did they go? Here I would really like to ask Anton Tikhonov. About wallet with address 1MSkmmqcVDjSjLJFzuq8o6YaJXuQPFiJs2. And about the previous wallet too. And what were there for almost 99 bitcoins with 1160 transactions. And why is this much less than the stated 22 million?
However, there was also an Estonian legal entity there, right? But, firstly, it will appear after the ICO - June 28, 2018. And secondly... it seems it is also completely empty! Yana, what's going on?! And where is the money?!
Source: ariregister.rik.ee
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Source: ariregister.rik.ee
The Cryptomuzhik channel and its Cryptoscamchat also did not remain aloof from the search for the missing cryptobubble. And this is what they found (one, two, three):
For convenience, we will remove the mentioned purses with separate links:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xe26aec623286aed41991a7257370f9a7f07b88d0
https://etherscan.io/address/0x71e4c641310bb5883a920e2f5072bc8b1bc37b95
https://www.blockchain.com/ru/btc/address/351B8m4yKGqhpg1UBB9SSzrBsrUAWRKB4o
Those who wish can delve into them themselves and look for patterns. And for some reason it seems to us that all this indicates that crypto money were used a little inappropriate way. And if they came to product development, then obviously not all.
Moreover, since the collected funds apparently passed by legal entities, we can assume that Tikhonov, Polulyakhov, Kontorovich or someone else MARK.SPACE dragged part of the received cryptocurrency to crypto exchangers, of which there are plenty in Moscow City. Markspace's office is also in Moscow City - convenient. So brought it all to the cache,that is, cashed. Because there are no obvious traces of receipta sufficient amount of money for Russian legal entities from reporting in SPARK. And where it is cashed, from the point of view of the state, there is usually laundering of funds obtained by criminal means. After all, they didn’t bother too much about KYC/AML when accepting cryptocurrencies, right? And all this, naturally, as part of an organized criminal community - because more than one person worked in/for Markspace.
What do you say to this version, Evgeni Malkin? And what do you think about your partners and the hockey fraternity? Did your colleagues and partners share what they collected from the ICO with you? And if so, how much? We have a lot of questions.
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