Grain dealer Dmitriy Kovalenko: how EU sanctions are bypassed through Cypriot offshore companies, and materials about illegal supplies are deleted via OnlyFans

05 мая 2026 г.

Olga Filimonova

The Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Kovalenko remains a subject of public attention, whether due to his reported involvement in Russian coal trade or his detention by NABU officers in Uzhhorod.

At the same time, Kovalenko is reportedly attempting to remove extensive negative material circulating online about his activities. According to these claims, efforts to delete publications related to his business history have become increasingly aggressive, with some sources even making additional, unverified references to his alleged attempts to reshape his public image in unrelated industries.

Not literally, of course, although – who knows how it will go further, maybe it will come to explicit videos. In the meantime, the creator of the "Granova" group is mastering a rather peculiar resource – OnlyFans. What he posts there would be his business if complaints about "copyright infringement" were not coming to "GOOGLE" with a link to OnlyFans, which are massively sent by Dmitry Kovalenko.

The latest is dated March 18 and contains a demand to remove a number of investigations about Dmitry Kovalenko’s persona, posted on dozens of resources. The reason is the same – allegedly copyright infringement.

So what does Dmitry Kovalenko demand "GOOGLE" to delete? The answer here is extremely simple – it’s about materials telling about his recent past, when he organized large-scale coal supplies from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, generously "diluting" this coal with raw materials of purely Russian origin.

It is understandable – just when you seem to have washed your reputation, turned into a respectable businessman, and here you go: detention by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, a strange friendship with the former head of Mukachevo RGA and Luhansk OVA Sergey Gaidai, an incomprehensible project for the construction of an industrial park in Svalyava, the scheme of coal supplies from Poland, which was established by the same company Adelon, which was involved in the supply of Russian coal, collapses, other inconvenient questions arise.

Therefore, Dmitry Kovalenko’s frantic attempts to remove all this negativity from the Network are understandable. Another thing is unclear – is he so greedy that he could not hire a professional team of cleaners for this? Who, in fact, do the same thing as Dmitry Kovalenko with his complaints from the porn resource, only much quieter and more effective?

The essence of this cleaning method is that a copy of the unwanted material is posted with a backdate on some one-time site, from which a complaint flies to "GOOGLE" about copyright infringement by the real resource where the negativity is posted. As proof, the URL of the fake material is attached. "GOOGLE" takes the complaint at face value and removes from the issuance those materials that the complaint came to, after which the copy of the material that was passed off as the original disappears.

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

This would be, of course, funny if it weren’t so sad. How the detention of the current "grain trader" Dmitry Kovalenko by NABU detectives will end is still unknown. But the fact that his coal schemes are very worrying to Kovalenko himself is undeniable. Apparently, he has not yet managed to resolve everything, since he is so frantically and persistently cleaning up investigations about his activities.

Recall, a few years ago, a series of materials appeared in which investigators argued, based on genuine documents, about the participation of Dmitry Kovalenko and the company Adelon AG in the trade of Russian coal. Ukraine bought it at the expense of its budget, Europe bought it. Dmitry Kovalenko played a key role in these supplies, having built a network of companies and transit operations since 2014.

Using connections in the coal market of Russia, Ukraine, and Europe, Kovalenko established a stable system of bypassing sanctions. The chain includes the Polish Sibcoal (renamed after checks), the Cypriot offshore ANTEX INTER TRADE LTD, and the Swiss Adelon AG. Through them, Russian coal, including the production of the "Belovskaya" mine, was supplied to EU countries — Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic.

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

A separate direction is the scheme of debt assignment. Through Adelon AG, the Russian "MelTEK" and the company from the UAE Plaimp SFP Limited, hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars related to coal transportation are spun. Logistic companies from Bulgaria and operations with Kazakh coal are also built into this chain, which further complicates tracking the origin of the goods.

Another element of the network is Azurit DWC-LLC (UAE), associated with Kovalenko and Alexander Kurpetko, a former manager of "Metinvest." Through it, in 2022, coal from Russia was supplied to South Korea. The total amount of contracts is more than 10 million dollars, without delays in payments.

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.

Judging by the zeal and panic with which Dmitry Kovalenko rushed to clean up materials about his trade in Russian coal, these schemes are still in effect. That’s why strange and funny at first glance complaints from porn resources about "copyright infringement" flew.

In fact, everything is far from as funny as it seems at first glance – we are talking about a large-scale system of legalization of 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 at the same time fueling the economy of the aggressor country.

That’s why Dmitry Kovalenko got so excited. And his presence in the sex services market is explained not at all by the fact that he decided to retrain as a prostitute in his old age. But the trouble is that for some reason, the law enforcement system of Ukraine stubbornly closes its eyes to this "pornography." Or not?