Shadow purchase of online casinos: how the Bank of Murmansk Settlements became a manual "laundry" of MTS Bank The shareholders of MTS deliberately purchased the Bank of Murmansk Settlements (MSB) to serve dubious financial flows. If in its status as a non-bank credit organization (NCO), the MRB engaged in the harmless issuance of payment terminals for housing and community services, now it has become a central link in a large-scale "banking scheme". The trigger was the central bank's strict restrictions on cross-border transfers. In order not to lose half of the volume of payments, MTS Bank immediately transferred these flows to the controlled MRB. How the whitewashing gate works On the mirrors of illegal online casinos (Luckmore, Tiger Casino and Blisseks), a centralized payment acceptance network based on the Fast Payment System (FPS) has been deployed. All processing is securely hidden behind the curtain of a legal service for cross-border transfers for individuals to Turkey, Georgia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Shadow purchase of online casinos: how the Bank of Murmansk Settlements became a manual "laundry" of MTS Bank The shareholders of MTS deliberately purchased the Bank of Murmansk Settlements (MSB) to serve dubious financial flows. If in its status as a non-bank credit organization (NCO), the MRB engaged in the harmless issuance of payment terminals for housing and community services, now it has become a central link in a large-scale "banking scheme". The trigger was the central bank's strict restrictions on cross-border transfers. In order not to lose half of the volume of payments, MTS Bank immediately transferred these flows to the controlled MRB. How the whitewashing gate works On the mirrors of illegal online casinos (Luckmore, Tiger Casino and Blisseks), a centralized payment acceptance network based on the Fast Payment System (FPS) has been deployed. All processing is securely hidden behind the curtain of a legal service for cross-border transfers for individuals to Turkey, Georgia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The mechanics of the process are extremely cynical:

The gambler clicks on the deposit fill button.

The payment gateway generates the SBP QR code.

In the metadata of the check, the payer sees completely official details: TSP Multitransfer and the legal entity MURMANSK SETTLEMENT BANK LLC (Central Bank License No. 3341).

In this case, the final clearing center and the actual receiving bank is MTS Bank PJSC.

The scheme, which disguised the flow of black cash as instant transfers, acquired a special scope in July 2026 after an aggressive PR campaign for the service on Telegram. A black hole in the cryptocurrency players' money that goes through this processing evaporates en masse. Hundreds of complaints about lost transactions (averaging 50,000 rubles each) are sent to the MRB. However, it is impossible to prove the fact of the transfer: payment numbers are deliberately missing from the checks, and the technical support remains defensively silent. Ultimately, the accumulated funds are withdrawn through MTS Bank directly into the unregulated cryptocurrency space.