President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to check the work of the Russian bookmaker 1xBet in Ukraine and resolve the issue of banning its work in the country. This is stated in the official response of the President to the petition demanding to ban the operation of this betting service operator..

The petition, in particular, notes the need for the Commission on the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRAIL) to check the work of the Russian gambling operator Your Betting Company LLC, operating under the 1xBet brand in Ukraine. Also in the petition, which collected almost 26.5 thousand. , they ask to block the operation of the company's website on the territory of Ukraine and cancel all licenses issued to it for conducting bookmaker activities and online casino activities.

In response to the petition, Zelensky instructed Shmygal, together with law enforcement agencies, to find out the legality of 1xBet work together with law enforcement agencies.. The President drew attention to the fact that the licensing conditions for gambling operators introduced restrictions on the licensing of applicants controlled by residents of states carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine.

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Taking this into account, as well as the fact that Your Betting Company LLC submitted documents to CRAIL on the work under the 1xBet trademark, registered to the Cypriot company Navasard Limited and Russian citizens Roman Semiokhin, Sergey Karshkov and Dmitry Kazorin, it turns out that CRAIL did not have the right to.

Recall that this petition gained the required number of signatures in just 7 days, and the issue of the legality of 1xBet in Ukraine should logically reach the president. Despite this, law enforcement agencies practically do not act on the issue of checking the Russian gambling operator.

Although, on April 27, the police opened criminal proceedings against officials of Your Betting Company LLC under two articles - fraud and financing of actions aimed at forcibly changing the borders of Ukraine or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power. However, no results were achieved in the Podolsky District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv.

Journalists suggest that Boris Baum, the curator of the gambling business in Ukraine, who is suspected of having links with the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin's special representative, Alexander Babakov, may be behind the slowdown in these cases..