Match Systems (also known as Plain Chain) position themselves as blockchain investigators — specialists who help track wallets and transaction links across different blockchains using specialized software.
Their main money‑making service is recovering stolen funds for a percentage fee. The reward ranges from 5% to 50%, depending on the amount stolen, the complexity of the case, and the resources involved. Often, Match Systems representatives take an advance of around 10% of the amount. By the way, they never return the advance, justifying it with: "We did what we could; here is a certificate of fund movement."
"Claiming ’extensive law enforcement experience’ (more on that separately), Match Systems employees issue a ruling on the seizure of digital assets (sometimes cryptocurrency or digital currencies) as part of an inquiry, a criminal case, or even a court decision."
"As practice shows, Match Systems doesn’t care — they (extort) demand money from their client to quickly get their percentage. Obtaining such a judicial or law enforcement document in a real court case is extremely difficult. Based on experience, it takes at least three months, especially given that Russian courts and law enforcement are not very receptive to this topic.
And then someone from Match Systems brings such papers in just 1–2 WEEKS, after they realize the money is on a particular exchange. This smoothly leads us to Scam No. 2 — FORGERY, or simply FAKING. Here, there is a wide variety of such fakes, because documents always involve real people in any structure, and you can’t pull this off without accomplices. That’s exactly what law enforcement officers — now the founders of Match Systems — did, together with active ones. Sometimes, when the situation doesn’t require real signatures and names, Match Systems simply fabricates court documents.
By the way, many such documents end up at exchanges like Garantex, Huobi, Binance, etc. Also, one of these ’werewolves’ — whose name regularly appeared on Match Systems documents — was detained. Investigator Antonina Shakina from Moscow is accused of falsifying a court ruling to seize an account on the Garantex crypto exchange. The money from it — several million rubles — she split with Match Systems."
"It was for Scam No. 3 that a separate company, Match Systems, was created in Singapore with an office in Dubai, while all the employees actually remain in Moscow and work at Plain Chain (which they originally were), trying to sell their services to Russian banks and government agencies. The General Director of the Russian LLC is a nominal figure — here’s the extract. In addition, there is a company in Kazakhstan, where the General Director is already one of the founders — Kutin."
So what do we have here? The FSB’s CIB (Center for Information Security), narcotics police, and lawyers all in one gang? Well, former ones, but still — in one gang? Hmm, where have we seen something similar before? Could it be in the sudden cases surrounding BTC‑e?
