THE LUCKY LABS’ STAR WARS: THE HEMBLING’S DARK LORDS OF RUSSIA 4y5y1g

Saga in 16 episodes about the adventures of Russian businessmen building a new, own universe. The universe of illegal online-casinos, crazy profits and, as a result, huge violations of laws - Including Ukrainian legislation.

SERIES 1: GLOBO-TECH, GGS AND LUCKY PARTNERS 3o6j4p

The story begins in 2001 – at this time in Moscow two Russian entrepreneurs, Sergei Tokarev and Rustam Gilfanov founded the Globo-Tech company.

The company creates the software for casinos’ games and slot (gaming) machines. And did it «creatively» – just copying hundreds of games (such as Book of Ra, Lucky Lady’s Charm, Dolphin’s Pearl, Ironman, Hulk, Gonzo’s Quest, Starburst) from world-famous producers – Novomatic, Playtech, NetEnt. Great success came to Globo-Tech after the gambling’s prohibition in Russia in the 2007 year, and, as a result, the gambling business «moved» to the Internet and became very popular here.

Entrepreneurs are not lost and, in addition to the production of the game content, they decided to engage in the creation and operation of casino products (working on the base of unlicensed Globo-Tech’s games). There were online-casinos Va-Bank, Vulkan Deluxe, BestVulkan, BestForPlay, Geiminator. It is signalled that for many of its products the company chose popular at some time off-line trademarks – such as Vulkan, iral, Geyminator and others – but, of course, didn’t pay commissions to possessors of a right.

The operator began to call itself GGS (products were managed by the Cyprus company GGS Net Ltd), and the sites united in the program GGS s, generously paid for the players involved in the casino. The developing market allowed GGS to earn millions of dollars, and the gaming product mix was constantly growing – along with the number of sites.

Later, the program was renamed in Lucky Partners, and the PokerDom sites, 24 Vulkan, Azart Club, Super Slots were added to the product portfolio. Both the and the sites themselves are working to this day, still using illegal software.

The owners transported the company’s office to Kiev, where they became known as Lucky Labs. Almost immediately they were perceived as being of a company with a sad «popularity». The Security Service of Ukraine repeatedly came with searches to the Russians’ offices, and Tokarev and Gilfanov were under the President’s personal sanctions on charges of illegal gambling and financing of terrorism.

SERIES 2: LUCKY PARTNERS 3y2v5q

For now, the program LuckyPartners includes about ten brands of online-casinos – and each runs on the unlicensed Globo-Tech’s software, which copies Novomatic, NetEnt, Playtech games and other legends.

Previously, there were even more brands. However, some of them were removed (for example, BestForPlay, Geiminator-Slots, SlotoBar, Jackpot), and some – were transformed into a more «white» program (PokerDom).

There is below a list of brands in the LuckyPartners’ program:

Whole four vulkans! And also the good old Va-Bank. It is interesting that it indicates the percentage of return to the player (Return to player %). The 93.25% is much lower than the official software NetEnt, Novomatic and others (where the figure is usually 96–99%) propose. And this means that players win in such casinos much less than in official ones. Actually, that’s the whole secret of the success of the LuckyPartners’ gray business.

As we , Internet-casinos in Russia are prohibited. Therefore, RosKomNadzor constantly blocks the domains on which such products are located. But Lucky found a way out of this situation – sites are constantly changing, and are given a special code that selects the so-called actual «mirror». Even the program was forced to change the domain with LuckyPartners.com to LuckyPartners.biz.

At the moment, the program includes:

• Vulkan Deluxe vulkanslots.com
• Vulkan Casino (a.k.a. Velkam) https://7ve.lkam.co
• SuperSlots sslcasino.co
• Va-Bank https://vabankclub.email
• Вулкан Клуб
• Vulkan24 24vulkanvictory.com

SERIES 3: PLAYTECH 6na3c

Curious fact: the 1 of the April 2017 year, the famous company Playtech (a major producer of games and software for online-casinos) broke off cooperation with the legendary publisher of comics and films Marvel. As a result, the once-popular Playtech games, based on the stories and characters of movie shows such as Hulk or IronMan, have disappeared from the sites of all world casinos.

These games live only on the sites of the Lucky Partners. Why? Yes, because it is a trivial pirate good, copied once by the giant of the gaming industry.

SERIES 4: FABRICATED GAMES 2f6ci

On all sites LuckyPartners game content – fake, unlicensed, graphically copied from the original. But sites are distinguished by a greedier algorithm that «gives» the player much fewer winnings.

However, the sites themselves are not regulated by any licences. All the above information about the possession of a licence on the site is fake.

In the case of these licences (for example, the Malta MGA or even Curacao), there is always a link to the licensor’s site, through which it is possible to its authenticity. But on the Lucky’s sites, even the name of the operator is indicated in the form of a picture, not text, – so that search engines cannot save it in their history.

At the same time, in the end of the letter arriving at the registration in Vulkan Deluxe, like the operator still indicates GGS NET Ltd.:

SERIES 5: VULKAN DELUXE 107034

The product, once known as BestVulkan, remains the flagship of the LuckyPartners program.

At once on the homepage we can see visible copies: Starburst (hit by NetEnt) and Lucky Lady’s Charm (the most popular game from Novomatic).

It can be seen that the game Gonzo’s Quest (in the original from NetEnt) is ed not from the server of Net Entertainment, but from its own, owned by Globo-Tech.

The warning that the content on Vulkan Deluxe is unlicensed can be found on the authoritative site LatestCasinoBonuses.ru. Exactly as well as the mention that the site is managed by GGS NET Ltd, and works on the Globo-Tech software:

SERIES 6: SUPERSLOTS 4k121p

SERIES 7: VULKAN 24 3b3g2k

Another site Lucky, using the brand Vulkan with unlicensed games.

The casino’s lobby shows a classification by «producers» – the scale of the world brands games’ copying is clearly visible.

For example, a fake game Iron Man 3 from Playtech. It cannot be found in official casinos, because Playtech broke off cooperation with Marvel – owner of the materials associated with the saga of Iron Man:

SERIES 8: VA-BANK 693g29

One of the «long-livers» of the Lucky Partners program is Va-Bank. The casino demonstrates a wide range of unlicensed content: games from NetEnt, Novomatic, Playtech and others.

SERIES 9: VULKAN VELKAM 5e2l2f

Another Vulcan from Lucky with a wide range of fake games.

SERIES 10: AZART CLUB 2t4p1h

SERIES 11: POSHFRIENDS 6x2h30

Despite the huge earnings from the «shadowy» products, at some point Lucky decided «clear» its reputation. And it created two online-casinos, based on legal game content, under the licence Curacao – not too, by the way, authoritative.

These sites are Casino-X and Joycasino. The latter is particularly famous for annoying advertising, telling the how to find a living mirror of the casino.

For new brands, a separate program was created – PoshFriends. Later, there were added a few more products and poker site PokerDom, transfer out from LuckyPartners.

Both sites – Casino-X and Joycasino – are managed by the Cyprus company Darklace Ltd., and the licence is obtained for Pomadorro N.V.

SERIES 12: TRANSFERRED POKERDOM 1v2w5z

In the arsenal of Lucky Labs there is a poker site PokerDom, which for a long time was in the program Lucky Partners. However, the site was managed by the same company Darklace Ltd. that both Casino-X and Joycasino. This caused foreign partners’ legitimate suspicions. Therefore, PokerDom was transferred to PoshFriends.

SERIES 13: FOREIGN FORUMS’ PARTNERS 2x2i31

Despite the plans to provide the maximum distance of the «white» sites’ (PoshFriends) activity from «shadowy» (LuckyPartners), the fact that all these products were operated by one team was difficult to hide.

But a funny episode – a representative of GGS s s the Va-Bank casino on the well-known site LatestCasinoBonuses:

The site’s istration clearly didn’t suspect what guests had come to them – and that it had taken care of pirates.

Similarly, it was not suspected at the GPWA forum, when GGS s bought from them the Gold Sponsor icon:

SERIES 14: OPERATIONAL COMMUNICATION 1t5t3e

In addition to public mention, there is another aspect that closely links the brands of the group Lucky Partners and PoshFriends – payments. The fact is that getting requisites for accepting payments to a site without a licence isn’t so simple. Therefore, all the sites of the group use Pomadorro N.V. as the payee. In some places, there is an old GGS NET. In general, analyzing payment methods, it is possible to confidently say: money from both the «Volcanoes» Luckypartners, and from «Joe» and «Iks» go in one pocket.

SERIES 15: PLAYSON 6i119

In addition to operating activities’ «white washing», entrepreneurs decided to «clean up» their game manufacturer as well. At that time, Globo-Tech, in addition to hundreds of well-known games’ counterfeit copies, recruited a dozen more slots of its own design. So the company appeared Playson – supposedly a new player in the market for game content producers. Although, in fact, the company’s activities were created on the same basis and as part of the same Lucky Labs.

SERIES 16: LUCKY LABS 5r2e2h

Despite everything, Russian entrepreneurs continue to work in Kiev under the signboard of Lucky Labs. And journalists find more and more interesting information about the company’s activities.

Russian version on the AntiKor / Huffington Post: https://antikor.com.ua/articles/190674-the_huffington_post_nazval_sobstvennikov_lucky_labs_gangsterami