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Still making usefull investigations
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For an illustration I will post here some information about one of well known Russian ICO projects - https://zrcoin.io/ which was the first commodity-backed blockchain option as claimed (not a commercial!).
I’m not to make any conclusions on this project. It seems that it’s generally ok and improving. But we revealed some interesting and sometimes controversial data only from open sources which will be partly revealed here as a modest example of our capabilities.

1. Patents mismatch.
Cofounder of project - Vitaliy Merzlyakov is claimed to be a holder of 9 different patents. https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4  
Whilst official patents database know only two authored by this person https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4

2. Corporate history.
Cofounder of project - Vitaliy Merzlyakov in recent times participated as founder/cofounder in 7 different entities, 5 out of 7 were winded up and few of them were compulsory dissolved by legal enforcement.
https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4

3. Financial statements.
Vitaliy Merzlyakov currently has a 1/3 stake in Russian entity OOO «HПЦ «Цeoлит» (besides ICO SPV), registration number: 7455007210. Last few years it has stated negative financial results (loss).
https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4

4. SPV(E) structure/holding scheme
After ICO is over it’s obviously not an end of the tunnel for investors as one might think.
We analyzed activity of zrcoin project cofounders and find out their SPV structure – OOO «ЦИPКOH» (LLC “TSIRCON”), registration number 9701065073, date registered 20.02.2017.
Stakeholders: (1) LAGATA INVESTMENT LIMITED (foreign entity) – 49,01% (2) Vitaliy Merzlyakov – 25,5%  (3) CEO - Vadim Sychev -12,75% (4) Yevgeny Panov – 12,75%.
Authorized capital only 78 440 rubles, which is equivalent to approx. 1 300 USD.
We are also able to conduct more detailed research.
https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4

5. Licenses

Dunno if specifically this project needs any licenses, but there’s none of them currently.  
https://imgur.com/a/YKJF4
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All information was legally obtained from open sources. All conclusions and judgments (if any) are evaluative.  
Feel free to propose your candidates to be under survey. For large scale or more detailed research of any Russian foundation/entity/person pm me or write here in the thread.

P.S. cannot insert images (screenshots). Sad!
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Greetings for all honorable users!

As a “preface”

Russian ICO market has shown drastic growth lately. It’s well known for its commodity based projects, taking part in manufacturing, nature resources, agriculture, as well as virtual IT sphere. Not so long ago Vitalik Buterin stated to set up collaboration with Russian authorities aimed to develop the very first Russian government backed cryptocurrency.  
Thus considering such plans Russian privet equity holders aren’t willing to stand on a sidewalk during this tech revolution as a result today we are to eyewitness Russian ICO market growth up to 300 million USD only since the 2017 beginning.
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With regret I must admit not all of announced projects to be trustworthy that’s why I want to make an offer for community members who are engaged in collaboration (or potentially) with Russian entities/investment projects/ICOs’, privet persons et.al.
Who am I?
I’m your personal investment guide in Russian assets and a professional business/law consultant, managing small own business in corporate matters sphere. Usually we provide special services (offline) like:
-  Mergers and acquisitions.
- Strategic alliances, joint ventures and other partnering transactions.
- General corporate matters (startup counseling, commercial contracts drafting, formation of corporations and etc).
- Structuring of equity ownership, including offshore holdings and schemes.
- Taxation matters.

After the years of working my team posses a wide arsenal of resources/ instruments to conduct a survey/research to ensure or refute positive business reputation of aimed structure or person either investments due diligence.

What helpful online services do we offer for community?

1. Taking off “corporate veil” from Russian entities/foundations.
- Revealing affiliated persons and real beneficiary.
- Revealing bogus and controversial data.
- Revealing corporate structure of SPV(E) during and after ICO.

2. Researches referring to founders and cofounders of Russian entities (previous projects, management history, general mentioning and quotations)*
(As a separate branch – researches dedicated to any Russian resident person)
- Revealing corporate history of creating/participating in any entities.

3. Entities and their founders’ business reputation:
- Economic Court trials history.
- Judgment Enforcement Office database analysis.
- Revealing bogus and controversial data.

4. Market research for specific ICO/case.
- Market size and segmentation;
- Demand analysis;
- Competitors analysis.


How do we provide data?
Data to be provided as a complex report (PDF) - for large scale researches.
Also in other substitute medium at my own discretion (including posts in the thread)

Time frame
From 3 to 10 working days

Payments

We accept BTC, PayPal (in a current exchange rate).



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NO FEE.

Services temporally are free therefore I do keep a right to provide them (1) partly, also consider (2) my own schedule to do prepaid job.  
If my hints were helpful:
(BTC): 19PTjLFN1BxUGoqLNmr8H4v8aXgSnrUns5
(ETH): 0x5b7bEA92E9b297E520c7cd04dB13640FbB936503

Feel free to pm me if interested in a large scale, detailed research.

Do smart investments!
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