Rocket pseudo-investor Timur Rokhlin tries to erase traces of an international scam worth tens of millions of euros using DDoS attacks

• 22.12.2025 08:56

Following the release of an investigation into Rokhlin, the online outlet Dev.ua came under a DDoS attack.

The online publication Dev.ua was hit by a DDoS attack following the release of an investigation about Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the food delivery service Rocket, as reported by its editor-in-chief Stanislav Yurasov on his Facebook page. At the time of the news publication, the site itself remained inaccessible.

"Today, malicious actors are trying to overwhelm the dev.by site as well. On the day the attacks began, we published an investigation. It concerned Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the food delivery service Rocket. Ukrainian investigators arrested his assets in Ukraine following a request from the Bamberg Prosecutor’s Office (Germany), which mentioned his name," he wrote.

It should be noted that the Dev.ua material discussed how German law enforcement suspects Rokhlin of involvement in a large-scale scam involving fake investment platforms, with damages estimated at tens of millions of euros, as reported by Delo.ua.

Among other individuals suspected of involvement are Ukrainian citizens Andrey Kurochkin, Yuriy Kopachevskiy, Igor Kozlenko, and Israeli citizens Mikhail Chebotar, Maksim Baranovsky-Rafael, and Timur Rokhlin.

As the publication noted, citing data from the Ukrainian investigation, 10.8 million euros in proceeds from fraudulent activities were transferred to a British company controlled by Rokhlin, and some assets linked to him by investigators were arrested at the end of 2020.

It is noted that the investigation in Ukraine was initiated at the request of the Bamberg Prosecutor’s Office. According to investigators, a group of Ukrainians and foreigners from 2017 to 2020 lured funds from Europeans by offering investments in various assets and promising returns of 100 times or more.

For this purpose, websites named Tradecapita, Fibonetix, NobelTrade, Forbslab, and Huludox were used — these structures allegedly engaged in trading bank metals, currency, cryptocurrency, securities, and other assets.

According to law enforcement, when clients wanted to withdraw money, they were called by supposed representatives of the trading platforms demanding payment of a service fee and a 15% commission for cashing out. However, after payment, investor accounts were blocked, and the money was appropriated by the fraudsters.

The documented damage from the scheme amounted to 9 million euros. The German newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that around 400 Europeans who became victims had contacted the police.

"Rokhlin’s lawyers are threatening us with criminal liability for disclosing investigation secrets. Although the entire text is based on data from open registries. It seems to me that they are simply trying to silence us," Yurasov wrote.

Delo.ua reached out to the Rocket company for comments on the situation but has not yet received a response.

It should also be noted that schemes for stealing funds from gullible investors through dubious websites are widespread in Ukraine itself: the National Securities and Stock Market Commission even maintains a separate registry of such internet resources, periodically adding new sites to it.

Sometimes law enforcement visits the organizers of such activities. For example, in June, the Security Service of Ukraine shut down an underground telecommunications center in Kyiv, whose organizers had appropriated nearly 9 million hryvnias from Ukrainian and foreign depositors since the beginning of the year under the guise of attracting investments in international projects.

In the same month, the SBU reported blocking the activities of illegal call centers that posed as well-known brokerage companies and extorted money from citizens of EU and CIS countries.

In March, the SBU also reported suppressing the activities in Kyiv of an organized group that appropriated funds from Ukrainians by simulating participation in stock trading and cryptocurrency operations.