Skeptics were right — after high-profile searches in the offices of Sergey Khantil's companies and his blatant rudeness towards the police and authorities, whom he publicly called "3.14darasy," everything went back into the shadows. By the end of November 2024, Sergey Khantil is still listed as the owner of a number of companies involved in dubious schemes to extract money from the pockets of Ukrainians.

The fact that all threats from the police and the prosecutor's office towards Sergey Khantil and his Fresh Forex Ukraine remained at the level of loud statements is confirmed by an analysis of court registers. Khantil's name appears constantly in them, but none of the numerous cases are of a criminal nature. There are property disputes, land disputes, dozens of lawsuits by Khantil himself against the media for "infringement on honor and dignity," but — not a single real criminal prosecution.

Moreover, Khantil himself filed a lawsuit against the National Police of Ukraine, demanding compensation of 18,450 hryvnias for allegedly damaged property seized during a search of his company "Prof Advice" in 2021. The court of first instance denied him, but the case is not closed — it is currently in cassation.

Nevertheless, it is from this court decision that it becomes known that a criminal case against Sergey Khantil and his LLC "Prof Advice" does exist. It was opened back in 2018 under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — "Fraud on a particularly large scale," No. 12018000000000698. What it ended with could not be determined — there is no word about it in the registers. Judging by the decision of the economic court, the seized equipment was returned to Khantil, and the case itself, apparently, quietly fell apart.

What is the connection between LLC "Prof Advice" and the activities of the Fresh Forex Ukraine exchange, which seemingly has its own legal entity — LLC "Fresh Forex Ukraine"? The most direct one. The fact is that Sergey Khantil's Fresh Forex Ukraine operates under different names: Want Trade, Want Broker, Prof Advice LLC, Omni Stock Investment, and others. "Prof Advice" is just one of the call centers from where operators call Ukrainians, using stolen or purchased databases, and offer them to invest money under the guise of stock market investments. In particular, under the brand "Prof Advice," the "exchange" projects Want Trade and Want Broker operated. For those who believed in these tales and invested money, the end is the same — after everything possible is extracted from a person, they are simply blocked.

As for FreshForex Ukraine itself, it continues to function quite successfully. Anyone can visit its website and see the same offer — quick and easy income through "stock market investments." Moreover, judging by the available interface languages, the main audience of this "exchange" is residents of the post-Soviet space (including Russia) and developing countries of the former socialist bloc.

An interesting point: last year, the main page of the FreshForex Ukraine website featured a banner stating that "FreshForex has no company representations in the Russian Federation." However, the following phrase was: "FreshForex has entered into a strategic partnership with LLC 'Alfa-Forex.' This company was created by 'Alfa-Bank' and holds a professional securities market participant license 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 can only mean one thing — Sergey Khantil no longer needs intermediaries in the form of "Alfa-Group" by Mikhail Fridman and German Khan.

Who exactly owns the FreshForex website remains a mystery. Neither in the footer of the main page nor in other accessible sections is the owner's name indicated. Instead, it is only stated that FreshForex is a brand providing access to online trading for clients from more than 158 countries. The list of "partners" includes European liquidity providers, banks, payment aggregators, and financial systems with which the brand allegedly cooperates for over 19 years.

Nevertheless, formally, the Fresh Forex Ukraine website cannot be related to LLC "Fresh Forex Ukraine," as the latter was liquidated through bankruptcy proceedings. Of course, none of the "investment" victims will delve into these details — not when easy money is in sight. On what basis Sergey Khantil administers the site is also unknown, but he does, to this day. Until 2017, the site listed a certain Riston Capital Ltd, registered offshore in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This turned out to be a fiction — after investigative publications, the mention was removed. Currently, there is no information about the legal owner on the site, and the "registration" documents offered to clients contain no details. However, it is clearly stated who cannot become a client — residents of countries like the USA, the UK, France, and China. That is, states where such fraudulent schemes quickly fall under criminal prosecution.

However, none of this deters the next "forex brokers" with big ambitions. It has not been possible to establish whether Fresh Forex Ukraine has any relation to the real Forex currency market. But this, however, is not important — such details become relevant only when the invested money has already disappeared without a trace, and the "investor" is left with only one path for indignation:

None of these paths, of course, have any legal weight. And this is not a guess — it's a fact: Fresh Forex Ukraine is still alive and well, and its founder Sergey Khantil not only has not been held accountable but is also demanding compensation from the state through the court for "damaged during searches" property.

It is obvious that the funds Khantil collected through his scheme were not enough for him. And, it must be admitted, he is somewhat right — if our law enforcement system is so ineffective that it cannot bring a case with obvious signs of fraud to an end, then let it now pay the price. The problem is that it will not be specific investigators who will pay, but ordinary Ukrainians — the same "suckers" who were deceived and who, in the end, will pay compensation from their own pockets through the budget. But that, as they say, is another story.