Periodically, relatively young people aged 25-30 appear in the Ukrainian media landscape. All of them do the same thing and talk about their incredible success and earnings of hundreds of millions of hryvnias while demonstrating a luxurious lifestyle and not even having a real company at the same time.
Vladyslav Kolodistyi was unknown to the general public until early 2026. He entered the media space of Ukraine with a bang just a month ago after an interview on the Point G YouTube channel of Oleg Artishuk.
In his interview, this successful young man said that he was a career soldier, he studied at a military university, and followed in the footsteps of his father, who was a deputy commander of a military unit. After graduation, Vladyslav was assigned to an aviation military unit in Melitopol. He couldn’t stay in his native Boryspil, which was a huge deviation from his plans.
As Vladyslav Kolodistyi admits, while still at university, and then in the military unit, he and his friends began to work in the field of “cryptocurrencies, arbitrage, and other interesting projects,” realizing the futility of military service and simply understanding the potential amount of money that could be earned in the civil world. While telling the squadron commander that he would not be in the service for long and actively working in the field of arbitrage during his service hours, he coincidentally started having hearing problems. After that, Vladyslav was decommissioned from military service in 2019 for health reasons. At the same time, judging by his interviews, as well as photos and videos of himself flying over Portugal and the ocean in an airplane at the beginning of 2026, as well as playing padel tennis, he clearly has no health problems. This healthy man, who took the oath of allegiance and graduated from thr military university, decided not to return to Ukraine.
After being decommissioned due to hearing problems from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a career Ukrainian military and pilot, Vladyslav Kolodistyi, found the strength to defend the Portuguese sky. Source: https://www.threads.com/@kolodva
In 2019, as soon as Vladyslav Kolodistyi was able to return to normal life, he rented several offices in Kyiv with friends and began working illegally in the field of traffic arbitrage while attracting dozens of new employees. However, as he admits, problems with law enforcement agencies began in 2020-2021.
“Everything was going well before the first search and seizure. After that, my partner had a lot of issues. In addition, he had problems with other projects, as well as wiretapping and tail jobs. We also talked with other huge teams, and all of them were liquidated on the same day,” Vladyslav Kolodistyi recalls with regret. By using this project, he and his partners managed to earn several million dollars while not paying taxes.
“The more corrupt the country, the more insane and shady the schemes,” the future billionaire believes.
They decided to invest the money in a crypto exchange. However, he laments that such a “business” did not take off because there was no knowledge, the market was complex, and, most importantly, there was no reliable channel to transfer non-cash money and fiat currencies.
At that moment, these arbitrage geniuses left Kyiv and moved to Portugal, where they tried to launch their own payment system. However, according to Vladyslav, no one in Portugal, Spain, or any other EU country wanted to issue them a license, which was pretty obvious. That’s why these smart guys decided to start operating in the UK. This is the moment when the biggest deception begins.
Both in his interview for Point G and on social media, Vladyslav Kolodistyi positions himself as CEO of the PayAdmit payment software company, as well as the co-owner of this company, noting that there is also an equal partner from Ukraine and smaller partners who have been working in his team for several years.
According to Vladyslav, his PayAdmit company, which develops software for payment systems, is currently estimated at about 100 million euros. In just one year, it may cost $1 billion.
“We are constantly getting offers to sell the company. We still need to do and perform ten times more things. We wanted to get an estimate, and we received a nine-digit number. Our current income is around 100 million euros, which means about 1 billion euros in total after doing ten times more. And I am talking only about software now,” says the alleged co-owner of PayAdmit.
In his interview, he admits that the company also engages in high-risk projects related to payments (gambling, online casinos, and so on) while making good money from them. In addition, it stores almost all funds in cryptocurrency. At the same time, the main income comes from software, but the company also deals with everything related to payments.
Now, let’s open the official website of PayAdmit. First of all, there is no information about the name of the PayAdmit legal entity on the main page and on the About Us page. However, it can be found on the Terms and Conditions page. As we can see, the legal entity hiding behind the PayAdmit brand is a company from the United Kingdom. We are talking about the FIX IDEA LTD (registration number 13282934), registered at the following address: 2nd Floor College House 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, England, United Kingdom, HA4 7AE.
According to the official British Register, the director (legally responsible owner) of the FIX IDEA LTD is the Cypriot Minas Patsalos. Before him, two more Cypriots were listed as directors: Nicos Georgiou and Daniel Kurt Ioannou. Furthermore, the company was registered on March 22, 2021. Neither Vladyslav Kolodistyi nor any other Ukrainians have ever had anything to do with the company. None of them is mentioned in the records.
The current director of the FIX IDEA LTD, Minas Patsalos from Cyprus, used to work as a real estate agent and then as a marketer.
We don’t even mention the fact that a company with an imaginary valuation of 100 million euros is registered on the outskirts of London in an apartment building (in fact, in an attic room), which is located in a residential area. In addition, dozens more Cypriot and Ukrainian companies are registered at the same address.
On his LinkedIn page, Vladyslav indicates that he worked for this company since January 2021 in the Kyiv office as the Senior Business Development Specialist, while the company was registered on March 22, 2021. His wife, Alyona, is listed in the management of the company. Furthermore, the Head of Sales, Vitaliy Dudnyk, previously worked in the field of shady Forex scams.
However, the most interesting fact is that Vladyslav was the director of the FINTECH GLOBAL SOFTWARE LTD British company, registered at the same address as the FIX IDEA LTD. He registered this company with an authorized capital of 100,000 pounds in early June 2025. Already in September 2025, he transferred it to Valeria Vahorovska, who is well-known as the founder of the infamous Fondy payment system in Ukraine.
We would like to remind our audience that the National Bank of Ukraine canceled the registration of the Fondy payment system owned by Valeria Vahorovska at the end of April 2024. According to the NBU, Fondy’s activities posed threats to national security. The owner of the company was suspected of having ties to Russians. At the same time, the payment platform was suspected of fraudulent transactions. To save the money and the company from sanctions, Vahorovska planned to sell Fondy to Georgia’s largest bank, TBC Bank Group PLC. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine even gave permission for the deal. However, the National Bank intervened at the last moment. The registration of Fondy was canceled, and there was nothing to sell.
According to the NBU, the reason for the exclusion of Fondy from the register of payment systems was the information that Fondy’s activities threatened the national security of Ukraine. The regulator appealed to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which confirmed that Fondy posed a threat to the country. After the criminal cases were initiated, Valeria Vahorovska left Ukraine and moved to Germany.
Such simple facts make it clear that Vladyslav Kolodistyi himself is a figurehead and frontman for Valeria Vahorovska or the people behind her. In addition, he is also trying to evade responsibility in advance, realizing that sooner or later he will have to answer to the law enforcement agencies of Great Britain and other countries.
Valeria has much more experience in payment systems and shady schemes than Vladyslav. Interestingly enough, Valeria Vahorovska transferred the company to Sergey Liger, who is a German citizen, a month later, in October 2025.
According to media reports, Vladyslav Kolodistyi is also a partner of the controversial Artyom Lyashanov from Belarus, who created the fake Thedex crypto platform on paper to get off-the-books cash. After the publication of these facts, he was even forced to remove all the relevant information.
The law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, Great Britain, and other countries definitely need to deal with Vladyslav Kolodistyi, Valeria Vahorovska, and their billion-dollar “business”. Why? Because we are dealing with a shell company created only for money laundering and tax evasion.
