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The Russian who lent $8 million to Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, had in the past created internet sites promoting questionable sex pills, according to reports published through The Daily Beast.
The flagship product sold through those sites, Vimax, which promises longer sex and a firmer erection, has drawn warnings from fitness regulators in the U. S. because it contains hidden ingredients that can jeopardize fitness. The Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers not to buy the purportedly herbal male performance-enhancing supplements and has asked whoever bought the pills to discard them.
The sites where the pills were sold included vimaxtrialoffer. com, recorded on the call of 40-year-old Anton Postolnikov, according to public domain asset records. The Gmail account used to set this up was also used for vimax-detox-trial. com and vimax-trials. com. For pill-related communications, a number of @vimaxgroup. com email addresses were also created and recorded in Postolnikov’s call.
The Russian businessman, who is believed to have family ties to the Kremlin, has a history of good luck in specialized online businesses, such as offering money to porn stars and camgirls.
Postolnikov, whose aunt is reportedly married to Aleksandr Smirnov, a former Russian deputy justice minister and Kremlin insider, immigrated to the United States in 2018.
In 2021, he gave $30,000 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. That same year, documents show that a company naming Postolnikov as its “authorized person” owned two homes on Miami’s personal Fisher Island, worth $13 million. 7812 Fisher Island LLC, is the subject of an ongoing divorce proceeding in Florida, where Postolnikov is separating from Olga, a St. Petersburg neighbor who describes herself as a photojournalist.
Postolnikov was also suspected, through U. S. federal agents, of earning about $23 million in 2021 from alleged insider trading on Trump’s social media platform, according to court documents filed through defense attorneys. The allegation revealed in court documents involving three men, financier Michael Shvartsman, his brother Gerald and Bruce Garelick, who were arrested last June and charged with insider trading. In February, the government also added cash laundering charges. Michael and Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud in early April.
Postolnikov has not been charged in this case, however, court documents filed through the other defendants seeking to suppress evidence reveal that he included in the FBI’s investigation. Postolnikov allegedly engaged in insider trading after having a “good time” with two of the defendants earlier. official announcements from the DWAC indexed company, according to an FBI affidavit included in court records received through The Daily Beast.
Prior to his alleged foray into Florida’s major finance, Postolnikov was involved in the sale of Vimax, which was sold through offshore corporations in the United States, Cyprus and Mauritius, according to the products’ websites. New Century Beauty LLC, the company described as owning and operating vimaxtrialoffer. com on the site, is registered with the California office of Postolnikov’s mother, 73-year-old Lyudmila Postolnikova. The Izef LLC, which included Postolnikov as a director, dealt for a time with Vimax’s sales, according to archival footage from sales sites.
The Vimax logo is a registered trademark of OA Internet Services, founded in Canada and directed by Andrei Octav Moise.
“My company retained the logo as part of the partner program agreement for Vimax. The aim is to ensure that Mr. Anton Postolnikov pays the associate commission due to advertisers. This is a common practice in associate program control agreements,” Moise told The Daily Beast.
Moise was also for several years a director of Paxum Management Inc. , a payments company, also known as Paxum Inc. , which had a Canadian license. Postolnikov’s Paxum Bank, an establishment founded on the small Caribbean island of Dominica, has won awards. as the monetary establishment preferred by online sex workers.
“Mr. Postolnikov has had a direct or indirect relationship with Paxum Management Inc. ,” Moses said.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about Vimax urging consumers to throw it away. The drug claimed to be a “100% herbal product,” but the FDA said it contained tadalafil, an element that can lower blood pressure to dangerously low levels. degrees if taken in combination with other prescription medications. The company pleaded with “consumers not to purchase or use Vimax. “
Moise claims that the drugs reviewed by the FDA were counterfeit versions of his product. “The FDA has well discovered counterfeit Vimax sold through a Chinese company without any Vimax brand authorization or date. Basically, the counterfeit products contained illegal ingredients and were investigated. through the FDA, which ultimately concluded that they were not authentic Vimax products and had nothing to do with Vimax according to itself,” he said, while explaining that he had no access to the documents or recordings to verify this claim.
There is no mention of Chinese fakes on the FDA’s website, where Vimax is indexed in the “Health Fraud Product Database” as “contaminated sexual enhancement and potency enhancer. “
Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, is displayed on a cell phone on March 25, 2024.
Paxum Bank is named in a batch of files leaked through the U. S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. FinCEN, the Treasury Department’s project to combat money laundering and foreign currency crime.
The files, which show corporations flagged through monetary institutions as the subject of suspicious activity reports, were leaked to BuzzFeed News in 2019 and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and then with many media partner organizations in 88 countries around the world. world. .
So far, the inclusion of Paxum in the database has been reported.
The records imply that Standard Chartered Bank of New York raised an application from Paxum for its operations between 2013 and 2014. FinCEN’s report states, “Paxum has been the subject of two previous Array applications. “
“A review of Paxum’s invoices to [another company] shows that the invoices were made on the same day and on consecutive days, in the amount of $99,950. 00, and the remittance references indicated ‘payroll. ‘It’s unclear why payroll invoices would occur with such invoices. . frequency and in such quantities,” the document states.
FinCEN says Paxum is a “high-risk firm” due to its “history of relationships with. . . Consideration similar to adult entertainment. ” The report states that it operates in “high-risk jurisdictions” and uses “inconsistent addresses. “
“Paxum has indexed addresses in Belize and Canada, has a bank account in Romania,” FinCEN wrote.
Paxum has not been charged or convicted of monetary embezzlement. There are no indications of wrongdoing, and suspicious activity reports do not reveal any wrongdoing.
Postolnikov denies any wrongdoing, either in Russia and in relation to Trump and Paxum. He told local media in Dominica, the home country of his bank, that he had no ties to the Kremlin or money laundering, and said his corporations were still playing by the rules. He has threatened legal action against outlets such as The Guardian and others who have written about such controversies.
Mysteriously, Moise is also on Elena Smirnova’s list of registered business partners, according to Rusprofile, a corporate knowledge website. Smirnova is Postolnikov’s aunt and is said to be the wife of Smirnov, a former subordinate of Putin.
The database indicates that the company registered under its name is Smirnova, LLC PB Technology, established in 2005 and closed in 2019.
And yet, Moise denied having consciously entered into this partnership when approached via The Daily Beast via Telegram. “You have to go through everyone who has ever dealt with Anton,” he said. “We’ll let the government through if you’re blackmailing me. “”.
Moïse later stated that he knew nothing about PB Technology LLC: “I was not Elena Smirnova’s business partner. I know about her call because I know that she was guilty of Mr. Anton Postolnikov in connection with the invoices to the members.
Moise announced he would leave Paxum Inc. in May. He denied any wrongdoing. Smirnova may simply not be reached for comment.
Postolnikov reportedly came to the attention of U. S. prosecutors for the way he structured the loan to Trump’s Truth Social through Paxum and a hard-to-understand entity called “ES Family Trust. “initial stage, according to The Guardian, which reported on it for the first time.
Documents from the cordon movement show that Trump Media earned $2 million from Paxum Bank and another $6 million from ES Family Trust. Documents received through the authors show that the administrator of the ES Family Trust is Angel Pacheco, who allegedly knew himself as a Paxum worker. Bank on LinkedIn.
Pacheco has other ties to those involved in Trump Media. He served as a director of Foundation Card Services LLC, along with Shvartsman until at least 2023. Pacheco may not be reached for comment.
In January 2022, Trump Media had reached an agreement with a brokerage firm, naming “Anton Postolnikov and his affiliated entities” as “prominent parties” who participated in the deal.
FBI affidavits in the Shvartsman case reveal that Postolnikov purchased gigantic amounts of DWAC in September and October 2021. During the same period, he allegedly came into contact with other members of Trump’s media, according to an affidavit from an FBI special agent. The document alleges that between Oct. 21 and Oct. 28, 2021, Postolnikov sold all of his shares in DWAC for a profit of $22. 8 million.
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