A popular Ukrainian blogger is increasingly identified as the chief of robberies and arsons in respective countries, including mainly Russia and Ukraine. However, this is not about politics, according to the media, but about equalising accounts with those critical of its activities.
It's about Anatolia Sharija, the creator of the popular YouTube channel, who in 2019 tried his forces in Ukrainian politics. He had previously been on emigration; inactive during the 2014 overthrown president Viktor Yanukovych He went to Lithuania and later to Spain erstwhile he was followed by a BOLO. As he claims – for political reasons.
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Not long ago, Sharij worked with the creators of a cryptocurrency platform operating mainly in post-missile countries. Soon, however, his business paths with its owners split. Sharij began demanding from them the payment of powerful amounts, which he himself claimed were invested in the task by "serious people".
Financial misunderstandings happen. However, it shortly turned out that the Ukrainian blogger was trying to explain them with any alternatively different actions. Threats have turned into acts: arson, firing on firearms windows of homes of alleged opponents – these are the measures he reached out, according to a number of Ukrainian and Russian media, residing in sunny Spain Ukrainian.
Conflict over cryptocurrency
According to the largest of the Petersburg portals Font and another leading media In Russia, in the winter of that year there were attempts to set fire to respective apartments in St. Petersburg alone. usually the perpetrators tried to set the front door on fire, sometimes dropping off burning tires. akin incidents have besides been reported in another regions and cities: Leningrad, Moscow and Moscow, Staropol and Chelabinsk. Their victims were to be those associated with the cryptocurrency blogger Peter Lunev, with a writer Rheutian Polyna and with administrators mocking the Shariya Channel ‘Trucha Barcelona’ in Telegram.
The victims of arson were mainly those from the families of the “enemies” of Sharija, including Luniew. That 21-year-old Russian created Grimace's global cryptocurrency fund, which has been a large success. Luniew gained authority in the planet of cryptocurrency specialists. Then, in agreement with Sharij, he started another token – Sundae. It was to bring considerable profits to the Ukrainians in the perspective, but, as it shortly appeared, the blogger turned out impatient and further lowered the currency's rate, selling it and calling for the same subscribers on their social media channels. That's most likely why Shariy demanded Luniew to make a staggering amount of $10 million. After further threats to his family, the second withdrew $2 million, and then another threats arose at his address.
But that is not all. utilizing the access and trust of the user environment cryptocurrency that he acquired from Luniew, Sharij invested the money he had drawn into... a new, own token that he himself began buying, encouraging others to do so. This was to make a mechanics resembling a pyramid. Ukrainians, according to marketplace analysts, could usage this strategy to gain about EUR 1.5 million. Without any security, the cryptocurrency should, on the margins, rise the interest of the applicable EU authorities in which these activities were carried out.
Darknet assignments?
How says the admin of that channel ‘Trucha Barcelona’, “Shary has long persecuted his critics and threatened their household members. It ignites their apartments, businesses and cars in Europe, Ukraine and Russia. He submits orders through Darknet and is so unpunished. Later he frequently records videos in which he mocks the victims”.
Windows of an flat in Cherkasy shot with automatic weapons (photo. https://from.com.ua)Media Ukrainian informationthat the victims of the blogger's threats and of the armed robberies besides became citizens of the country associated with the cryptocurrency market. 1 of them was Yuri Leschenko From Cherkas. “For a fewer weeks my sister, surviving in Poland, was afraid to let the children out of the yard” – tells Leschenko.
Burnt door of the "Tracha Barcelona" channel moderator in Chelabinsk (photo: https://74.ru)Anatoly Sharij dements any connection to arson, blackmail and threats. At the same time, it announces legal steps against the Fontanka portal. The problem besides has a political dimension: on the 1 hand, Sharij presents himself as a Ukrainian repressed oppositionist, but on the another hand, the actions he is accused of doing, including within the European Union, may pose a threat to the safety of the associate States. The fresh Ukrainian authorities besides managed to accuse Shari of treason. So there are respective serious charges on him in the country of origin. It is interesting in this context that the Spanish authorities in 2023 one more time negatively examined Kiev's request to extradite the blogger.
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Andrzej Dołęga
