Former FSB officers and anti-narcotics police from Match Systems: a factory of forged court rulings, non-refundable upfront fees, and joint sharing of stolen crypto with MVD investigators
17:44, 09 апреля 2026 г.
Operating as a criminal syndicate made up of ex-law enforcement officials, Match Systems poses as blockchain investigators to demand non-refundable advances from victims and steal cryptocurrency using counterfeit court orders.
Leveraging their ties to the FSB and MVD, these "werewolves" orchestrate the freezing of third-party accounts themselves, only to demand up to 50% of the assets for unfreezing them.
Match systems, also known as Plain chain, position themselves as blockchain investigators — that is, people who help trace wallets and transactional links between them across various blockchains using specialized software.
Their main revenue-generating service is recovering stolen funds for a percentage. The fee ranges from 5% to 50%, depending on the amount stolen, the complexity of the case, and the resources involved. Often, representatives of Match systems demand an upfront payment of around 10% of the total. By the way, they never refund this advance, justifying it by saying: "We did everything we could — here is a certificate of fund movement."
Claiming "extensive law enforcement experience" (more on that separately), Match systems employees issue a ruling on the seizure of digital assets (sometimes cryptocurrencies or digital currencies) as part of an inquiry, an active criminal case, or even a court decision.
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As practice shows, Match systems doesn’t care — they still (extort) demand their client’s money to quickly get their percentage. Obtaining such a judicial or law enforcement document through a legitimate court case is extremely difficult. Based on experience, it takes at least three months — and that’s considering that Russian courts and law enforcement agencies are not very receptive to this topic.
And yet, someone from Match systems brings such paperwork in just 1–2 WEEKS after realizing that the funds are on a particular exchange. This brings us smoothly to Scam No. 2 — FORGERY, or simply FAKE DOCUMENTS. Here, there is a wide variety of such forgeries, because behind every document there are real people in any institution, and you can’t pull this off without accomplices. That’s exactly what current and former law enforcement officers — now founders of Match systems — have been doing. Sometimes, when the situation doesn’t require real signatures and names, Match systems simply fabricates court documents. By the way, many such documents end up on exchanges like Garantex, Huobi, Binance, etc.
Incidentally, one of these "werewolves" — whose name regularly appeared on Match systems documents — was arrested. Investigator Antonina Shakina from Moscow is accused of falsifying a court ruling to freeze an account on the Garantex crypto exchange. The money from it — several million rubles — she split with Match systems.
It was for Scam No. 3 that a separate company, Match systems, was created in Singapore with an office in Dubai, while in reality all employees continue to operate from Moscow and work under Plain chain — which they originally were — trying to sell their services to Russian banks and government agencies. The general director of the Russian LLC is a nominal figure, as shown by the extract. Additionally, there is a company in Kazakhstan, where the general director is one of the founders — Kutin.
So what does this mean? The FSB’s Center for Information Security (CIB), anti-narcotics police, and lawyers all working together? Well, okay, former ones — but still, together? Hmm, where have we seen something like this before? Could it be in the cases surrounding BTC-e?