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Evita Pay (Iurii Gugnin)

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Summary

Evita Pay (operating as Evita Investments Inc. and Evita Pay Inc.) was a New York-based cryptocurrency payment company founded by Iurii Gugnin, a Russian national. On June 9, 2025, Gugnin was arrested and charged in a 22-count federal indictment in the Eastern District of New York, alleging he used Evita to funnel approximately $530 million through U.S. banks and cryptocurrency exchanges on behalf of clients at sanctioned Russian financial institutions between June 2023 and January 2025. Gugnin was ordered detained pending trial and faces potential sentences of up to 30 years per bank fraud count.

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    Timeline(6 events)

    June 2023

    Alleged scheme begins: Gugnin allegedly starts using Evita Investments and Evita Pay to route funds from clients at sanctioned Russian banks through U.S. financial institutions via USDT stablecoin (approximate start date per indictment).

    DOJ Office of Public Affairs

    September 2024

    Gugnin is profiled by the Wall Street Journal in an article on wealthy renters, identified as paying $19,000 per month for a Manhattan apartment.

    Finance Magnates

    31 January 2025

    Alleged scheme ends: the indictment's stated period of criminal activity concludes (approximate end date per indictment).

    DOJ Office of Public Affairs

    9 June 2025

    22-count federal indictment against Iurii Gugnin is unsealed in the Eastern District of New York. Gugnin is arrested and arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Taryn A. Merkl; he is ordered detained without bail pending trial.

    DOJ EDNY and DOJ Office of Public Affairs

    9 June 2025

    IRS-CI and the FBI New York field office are identified as the lead investigative agencies in the DOJ press release.

    IRS-CI

    10 June 2025

    OCCRP, CNBC, Decrypt, CoinTelegraph, Meduza, and other major outlets publish coverage of the charges.

    OCCRP
    Provenance & Audit Trail
    Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain14 Wayback Archives

    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 14 of 14 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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    generated: 6/17/2026, 11:12:59 PM

    last updated: 7/27/2026, 5:41:13 PM

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