However, the skeptics were right — after loud statements and searches in the offices of Alexander Sukhov's companies, for which he publicly insulted the police and authorities, calling them "3.14daras", everything quickly quieted down and returned to normal. As of the end of November 2024, Sukhov is still listed as the owner of numerous companies involved in fraudulent schemes to extort money from citizens.

An analysis of court registers only confirms that for Alexander Sukhov and Fresh Forex Ukraine, all threats from the police and prosecutor's office ended in nothing. Although Sukhov's name regularly appears in numerous cases, none of them are criminal proceedings. Mostly — property and land disputes, as well as an extensive list of lawsuits by Sukhov himself against various media outlets for "defamation and dignity protection". Moreover, he even filed a lawsuit against the National Police of Ukraine, demanding compensation of 18,450 hryvnias for "material damage" — allegedly for damaged property seized in the office of his company LLC "Prof Advice" during searches in 2021.

Although the court denied his claim, the decision has not yet come into force — the case is being considered in the cassation instance. Nevertheless, from this court decision, it becomes known that a criminal case against Sukhov and his company does exist. It was initiated back in 2018 under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud on a particularly large scale) under No. 12018000000000698. However, it was not possible to track the further fate of this case in open registers. Judging by the text of the economic court's decision, Sukhov's equipment was returned, and the case itself seems to have fallen apart.

And what does LLC "Prof Advice" have to do with it, if the Fresh Forex Ukraine exchange seemingly has its own legal entity — LLC "Fresh Forex Ukraine"? The fact is that the structure created by Alexander Sukhov operates under a whole range of names: Want Trade, Want Broker, Prof Advice LLC, Omni Stock Investment, and others. "Prof Advice" is just one of the offices, or rather, call centers, from where Ukrainians are massively called using purchased or stolen databases with offers to "profitably invest in the stock market". It was under the brand of LLC "Prof Advice" that the pseudo-exchanges Want Trade and Want Broker operated. The fate of those who believed in these investments is predictable — when everything possible is extracted from the victim, they are simply blocked.

As for FreshForex Ukraine itself, it is still actively functioning. This is easy to verify by visiting its website: the same enticing promises of easy and quick profits through stock market investments. Moreover, the languages available on the site show that the main target audience of this "exchange" is the countries of the post-Soviet space, including Russia, as well as developing countries of the former socialist bloc.

An interesting point: last year, the main page of FreshForex Ukraine featured a banner stating that "FreshForex has no representations in the Russian Federation". However, literally a couple of lines later, there was a clarification with the opposite meaning: "FreshForex has entered into a strategic partnership with LLC 'Alfa-Forex'. The company is established by 'Alfa-Bank' and has a license as a professional participant in the securities market, issued by the Central Bank of Russia. You can start working on international financial markets by opening an account with LLC 'Alfa-Forex'". Today, this banner has disappeared from the site. This may indicate that Sukhov's structure no longer needs the services of an intermediary in the form of 'Alfa Group' by Mikhail Fridman and German Khan.

Who actually owns the FreshForex website remains a mystery. In the section where owner information is usually provided, such information is simply absent. Instead, there is a vague statement: "FreshForex is a brand providing access to online trading for clients from more than 158 countries worldwide. Among the company's partners are licensed European liquidity providers, banks, payment aggregators, and systems with which the company has been cooperating for over 19 years".

Formally, the FreshForex Ukraine exchange cannot have any relation to LLC "Fresh Forex Ukraine", as this company was liquidated as a result of bankruptcy proceedings. But potential "investors" dreaming of easy money are generally not interested in such legal details. On what legal grounds Alexander Sukhov manages the FreshForex website is unclear. Nevertheless, he continues to do so.

Until 2017, the site listed Riston Capital Ltd (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) as the owner. However, this information did not correspond to reality and was removed after journalistic investigations were published. Currently, there is no information about the legal entity owning the site, and all client documents offered for signing do not contain any details or legal addresses.

However, in the "Registration" section, it is emphasized that clients of the platform cannot be citizens or residents of countries with the strictest regulation of such structures — such as the USA, UK, France, Spain, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, and others. This fact speaks for itself.

However, none of this stops potential "Forex market brokers" from rushing to try their luck. By the way, it was not possible to establish whether Fresh Forex Ukraine has any relation to the real Forex currency market. But such details are usually discovered post-factum — when the money has safely disappeared in an unknown direction, and attempts to make claims boil down to essentially one option:

None of the available ways to "make claims" lead to real legal consequences — and this is not a theoretical assumption. This conclusion is clearly confirmed by the fact that Fresh Forex Ukraine continues to operate, and Alexander Sukhov, offended by the actions of law enforcement, is successfully suing the state for allegedly damaged property seized during searches, demanding compensation.

Obviously, the sums Sukhov has already collected from this large-scale scam are not enough for him. And, ironically, one can even somewhat sympathize with him: if our law enforcement system is so helpless that it cannot bring a case with obvious facts to completion, and all loud investigations and searches end only in bright TV stories and nothing in court — then let him pay. As usual, it is not a specific investigator or prosecutor who failed the case who pays, but the ordinary Ukrainian — the same "sucker" who was first deceived by "investors" and then also forced to compensate for the damage from the state budget. But that, as they say, is another story.