Vitaliy Nemerenko, owner and director of Vinex Trade, along with three accomplices—Alla Bobrysheva, Tetyana Sanzhak, and Anna Blinova—have been named suspects in an organized scheme involving large-scale fraud and the laundering of criminally obtained proceeds.
According to investigators, between February 2022 and September 2024, the suspects lured victims into investing through a fictitious online platform, my vintrade io, promising high, guaranteed returns. In reality, no commercial operations took place, investor funds were never returned, and the collected capital was siphoned off by the perpetrators.
The majority of the stolen funds were laundered into cryptocurrency via the Binance exchange, where nearly $1.2 million was processed. Concurrently, Nemerenko accumulated a fleet of 25 vehicles and acquired five land plots.
Court authorities have since placed all identified property and bank accounts under formal asset seizure.
In court proceedings, the prosecutor requested to keep the defendants in custody while significantly raising bail—up to 1.5 million UAH for Nemerenko and nearly 1 million UAH for his co-conspirators.
In 2021, a then 24-year-old Nemerenko attempted an entry into local politics by running as an independent candidate for the Andriyevo-Ivanivka rural council in the Berezivka district. At the time, he declared himself a self-employed business owner of a service center bearing the Vinex Trade name, though his political bid ultimately failed.
Corporate registries indicate that he owns VT LLC, serves as the sole beneficiary of VEO LLC, and holds co-ownership in the VinEko transport manufacturing cooperative registered in Odesa.
While law enforcement was gathering evidence for the fraud investigation, Nemerenko filed a lawsuit to defend his business reputation. A victimized investor had posted warnings online describing the company as a fraud scheme and featuring photos of Nemerenko labeled as a thief and liar.
Nemerenko demanded the removal of the posts alongside 100,000 UAH in moral damages. In May 2026, the Poltava Court of Appeal rejected his claim entirely, ordering Nemerenko to pay the victim 12,000 UAH in legal fee reimbursements.