Who is behind the largest online casino, a crisis in the aircraft market and the argument of Minister Oreshkin with economist Tremasov

The Bell found out who is suspected of creating the Azino777 online casino. The volume of bets in it can reach 15 billion rubles

The Bell learned the name of the alleged creator of the largest Russian-speaking online casino and one of the largest Runet advertisers-Azino777, which for the fifth year has not been able to cope with either Roskomnadzor or tax authorities. It turned out to be 33-year-old ITSHAN from Naberezhnye Chelny Albert Valiakhmetov.

• Azino777 accounts for more than 20% of the Russian online gambling market, RBC magazine counted in an investigation about the work of Azino777. The annual volume of bets in the casino can reach 15 billion rubles with the total volume of the Russian gray market about 73 billion rubles, the publication wrote.
• The casino gained wide fame in 2017 thanks to aggressive advertising: the video with the song “How to raise dough” performed by rapper Viti AC built almost all pirate films on the Internet. In 2017, the Azino777 was included in the twenty-largest views of the Runet advertisers in the online video market, and in the first half of 2018 it took first place in the same ranking, overtaking Pepsiso, Mars, Mail.ru Group and Google.
• The identity of the alleged creator Azino777 The Bell managed to find out by studying the materials of the criminal case, in the spring of 2018 in Ukraine. According to investigators, the casino was ruled by the Ukrainian company Royal Gam, created by Valiakhmetov in 2014. In 2014, she allegedly created the Azino777 online casino, developed software and then administered the work of casino portals, the case file said. In addition to Valiakhmetov, there are several more suspects in the case - these are citizens of Russia and Ukraine, but it was not possible to establish their names The Bell.
• According to Russian laws, for organizing illegal gambling, it threatens to six years in prison. In Ukraine, the punishment is softer - a fine of up to 25 million hryvnias (about 60 million rubles) and confiscation of property and profit of the company.
• The Bell managed to find out some details of the biography of the 33-year-old Valiakhmetov-he grew up in Naberezhnye Chelny, changed three schools in his city, served in the army, and in 2013 he often began to travel to Kazan and Kyiv. Then the Azino online casino domain was registered in the RU zone. The name Azino The interlocutors of The Bell in the Gambling industry are not associated with the derivative of the word "casino", but with the sleeping area of ​​Azino in Kazan.
• Attempts to block Azino777 in Russia have not yet given anything. In response to the locks of Roskomnadzor, the casino made new mirrors. In mid -January, the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) included Victory777 to the register of companies that banks and payment systems do not have the right to transfer money, but on January 30, The Bell opened the Azino777 website, replenished the player’s account with the Mastercard with it and then updated money from it.

What am I to me?

The creation of an underground online casino, albeit with a turnover of 15 billion rubles, is a dubious, although in some way a beautiful success story. While Roskomnadzor is unsuccessfully trying to block Telegram, a major illegal business online can exist for years, and the security forces can not do anything with it yet.

MONEY

Who will fly out of the market

Competition and income falls for airline to prepare for the redistribution of the market. The General Director of Victory Andrei Kalmykov wrote a complaint about UTair into a Federal Air Transport Agency - according to him, the financial condition of the competitor threatens flight safety and threatens him with a stop. Formally described by Kalmykov, signs do not oblige the Federal Air Transport Agency to take strict measures. But, in the general opinion of the market participants, someone will have to leave it soon-when the population’s incomes and demand falls, the airlines have to keep low prices and work at a loss. UTair, who allowed a loan default in December 18.9 billion rubles, is the main candidate.

Gold is not sold

The inglorious end of the epic with Venezuelan gold. Nicholas Maduro failed to sell 20 tons from the country's gold reserves, which, packed and suspended, were waiting for sending to Dubai by a Russian plane. Vlavings and sanctions - a buyer, a fund from the UAE Noor Capital, refused to participate in transactions with Venezuela after US warnings.

Earn in the accident

GAZ GARU Oleg Deripaska did not miss the opportunity to advance its interests, which presented after the bus accident in the Kaluga region, in which seven people were killed, including four children. You can avoid new accidents due to the ban on the operation of old buses in Russia, gas said . Such a ban will help not only the GAZ group itself, which owns four bus factories, but also Rusal Oleg Deripaska - after the sanctions against it, the government indicated to Russian car factories (including bus manufacturers) to use the company's aluminum.

Dismantling

"Not analytics, but drawing"

The main economic dispute of the week with a continuation on the weekend. The economist, the former chief forecast of the Ministry of Economy, Kirill Tremasov, called the next abnormally optimistic data of the Rosstat "Trache". The Minister of Economics Maxim Oreshkin answered him: it is convenient to criticize publicly, and Tremasov himself could work for the benefit of the country and its statistics. The economist in response spoke about the reasons for his dismissal from the ministry. Wedismantled the dispute with the numbers.

Signals

New Arms race

It was worthwhile to expect anything else: after the actual rupture of the Nuclear Treaty of the RSMD, Russia and the United States begin the new nuclear weapons race. On Saturday, Vladimir Putin instructed Sergei Shoigu to begin the development of Russian medium -range missiles, which were previously prohibited by the contract - the ground version of the Caliber complex and medium -range hypersonic missiles. Putin, however, specifically said that “we should not and will not be drawn into the arms race,” but this, of course, is about her.

PRACTICE

IKEA saves a "smart home"

IKEA expands the line of goods for the Smart House - in the spring of this year, the company plans to launch the sale of “smart” blinds called Fyrtur. It will be possible to manage them using a remote control or voice command. The choice of goods to promote the concept of the Internet of things may seem strange, but the head of the department of goods for the Smart House Bjern explains that in this way the company kills two birds with one stone - expands a “smart” assortment and offers the “most convenient solution for the windows”. The minimum cost of goods in Europe is $ 135. The product in IKEA took up the production of the product back in 2017, but decided not to rush to the start of sales and first take into account the mistakes made during the launch of the first “smart” product of the company - light bulbs. Then, for example, it was far from immediately managed to connect the device to Google Assistant. More details - here (paid in English).

The dangers of a flexible schedule

In conditions when online retailers aggressively expand their share in the market, everything that can be done by traditional stores to attract customers is to focus on the quality of their service. But, as research shows, retail companies are inclined to consider sales consultants not as their potential competitive advantage, but as a source of costs. Hence the desire to save in every way on the state, including by introducing an unstable schedule with daily changes, the schedule of shifts. Such a policy leads to the fact that during the hours of peak activity of buyers in the store there are simply not enough sellers. Experts from the Center for Worklife Law and business schools at the University of North Carolina conducted an experiment on the basis of the GAP distribution network and found that the introduction of a stable schedule can significantly increase the sales of retailer and the performance of employees. More details - here (paid in Russian).

Peter Mironenko