Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

10 апреля 2026 г.

Sergey Varchenko

The controversial Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Kovalenko continues to dominate headlines—one moment with reports on his schemes involving Russian coal, the next with details of his detention by NABU detectives in Uzhhorod.

At the same time, Kovalenko is actively trying to cleanse the internet of negative information, which exists in vast volumes. His efforts to remove materials exposing the background of this current “grain trader,” who built his fortune on coal trading during the war, have taken unusual forms—including attempts to involve the porn industry.

Not literally, of course, though – who knows how it will go further, maybe it will come to explicit videos. For now, the creator of the «Granova» group is mastering a very peculiar resource – OnlyFans. What he posts there would be his business, if complaints referencing OnlyFans weren’t being sent to "GOOGLE" for «copyright infringement», which are mass-sent by Dmitriy Kovalenko.

The latest one is dated March 18 and contains a demand to remove a number of investigations about the person of Dmitriy Kovalenko, posted on dozens of resources. The reason is the same – alleged copyright infringement.

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

What is Dmitriy Kovalenko demanding that "GOOGLE" remove? The answer here is extremely simple – it’s about materials that tell about his recent past, when he organized large-scale supplies of coal from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, generously «diluting» this coal with raw materials of purely Russian origin.

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

It’s understandable – you’ve just laundered your reputation, turned into a respectable businessman, and here you go: detention by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, strange friendship with the former head of Mukachevo RDA and Luhansk OVA Sergey Haidai surfaces, an incomprehensible project to build an industrial park in Svalyava, the coal supply scheme from Poland set up by the same company Adelon that was involved in Russian coal supplies is falling apart, other uncomfortable questions arise.

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

Therefore, Dmitriy Kovalenko’s convulsive attempts to remove all this negativity from the web are understandable. What is incomprehensible is something else – is he so greedy that he couldn’t hire a professional team of cleaners for this? Who, in essence, do the same thing that Dmitriy Kovalenko does with his complaints from the porn resource, only much more quietly and effectively?

The essence of this cleanup method boils down to the fact that a copy of the unwanted material is posted retroactively on some one-time site, from which a complaint flies to "GOOGLE" for copyright infringement by the real resource where the negative is posted. As proof, the URL of the fake material is attached. "GOOGLE" accepts the complaint at «face value» and removes from search those materials to which the complaint arrived, after which the copy of the material that was passed off as the original also disappears.

Simple and effective, only professional players in this market do not use real sites for such actions. Let alone pornographic ones. Does such a complaint from Dmitriy Kovalenko mean that he has entered the sex industry and is now earning with porn content, selling it to subscribers?

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

This would be funny, of course, if it weren’t so sad. How the detention of the current «grain trader» Dmitriy Kovalenko by NABU detectives will end is unknown for now. But the fact that his coal schemes very much bother Kovalenko himself is undeniable. Obviously, not everything has been "resolved" for him yet, since he is so convulsively and persistently cleaning investigations about his activities.

Let us recall, a few years ago a series of materials appeared in which investigators, based on real documents, argued about the involvement of Dmitriy Kovalenko and the company Adelon AG in trading Russian coal. Ukraine bought it at the expense of its budget, Europe bought it. Dmitriy Kovalenko played a key role in these supplies, having built a network of companies and transit operations back in 2014.

Using connections in the coal markets of Russia, Ukraine, and Europe, Kovalenko established a stable system to bypass sanctions. The chain includes Polish Sibcoal (renamed after checks), Cypriot offshore ANTEX INTER TRADE LTD, and Swiss Adelon AG. Through them, Russian coal, including from the «Belovska» mine, was supplied to EU countries — Poland, Lithuania, Czechia.

The scheme is simple in essence but convoluted on paper. Offshore companies «resell» coal to each other, creating a fictitious supply geography. For example, the Cypriot company «buys» coal that physically does not exist there, and then sends it further to Europe. Swiss Adelon AG also participates in these operations, purchasing coal from Belarusian intermediaries.

A separate direction — the debt assignment scheme. Through Adelon AG, Russian «MelTECh» and a company from the UAE Plaimp SFP Limited, hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars related to coal transportation are cycled. The same chain includes logistics companies from Bulgaria and operations with Kazakh coal, which further complicates tracking the origin of the goods.

Another element of the network — Azurit DWC-LLC (UAE), linked to Kovalenko and Aleksandr Kurpetko, former manager of «Metinvest». Through it, in 2022, coal from Russia was supplied to South Korea. The total amount of contracts — over 10 million dollars, without payment delays.

Despite the multi-stage «paper» logistics — Russia, Korea, Switzerland, Belarus — the real route remains primitive: coal goes from Russia to Belarus, and then to Europe. All other transactions are needed only for one thing — to hide the origin of the raw materials and bypass sanctions.

Coal magnate Dmitriy Kovalenko turns to OnlyFans: how the owner of Adelon AG tries to use porn platforms to remove information about his business with Russia

Judging by the zeal and panic with which Dmitriy Kovalenko rushed to clean materials about his trade in Russian coal, these schemes are still operating. That’s why strange and seemingly funny complaints from porn resources about «copyright infringement» flew.

In reality, it’s far from as funny as it seems at first glance – it’s about a large-scale system of legalizing Russian coal on the European market. And while Ukraine is at war, such schemes continue to work, bringing their organizers hundreds of millions of dollars — and simultaneously feeding the economy of the aggressor country.

That’s why Dmitriy Kovalenko got so agitated. And his presence in the sex services market is explained by anything but the fact that in his old age he decided to retrain as a prostitute. But the trouble is that Ukraine’s law enforcement system stubbornly turns a blind eye to this «pornography». Or does it?