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The numerous false claims about Russian "dirty" money launderer Maksym Krippa seem to be losing credibility as more factual information about his true background becomes known.

Debates about who Maksym Krippa is have broken many lances. Some claim he is a brilliant businessman, others claim he is an equally brilliant fraudster, and still others that he is merely a facade for Russian capital in Ukraine.

The persona of Maksym Krippa has always been obscured by a massive flow of fake information. But in the last couple of years, this flow has become an ocean – finding any more or less reliable information about Maksym Volodymyrovych Krippa is nearly impossible.

The phenomenon of Maksym Krippa continues to attract attention. You might think that investigators have long since restored his more or less accurate biography, and there’s no point in filling the internet with outright nonsense. Nevertheless, Maksym Krippa continues to do so.

The personality of Maksym Krippa is buried under a truly mind-boggling amount of fakes. Moreover, these fakes are constantly updated and disseminated, overshadowing even the information that Krippa (or the people behind him) present as the true biography of this so-called entrepreneur.

In the fall of 2023, the gaming community was shocked by the news of a change in the beneficiary of GSC Game World, the developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. According to Ukrainian and Czech registers, the new owner of the studio became a little-known businessman Maksym Krіppa.