Russian Sergey Mayzus is a notorious entrepreneur in high-risk payment and online trading. He founded the now CySEC-regulated broker InstaForex in Russia in 2007, which has had many regulatory problems. The UK FCA revoked his Mayzus Financial Services Ltd license as a payment processor in 2018. Mazyos was allegedly involved in Alexander Vinnik's Russian collapsed crypto exchange BTC-e as a payment processor. Mayzus seems to have legal issues in the Czech Republic.
We have conducted a compliance review of CySEC-regulated broker InstaForex and its offshore mutations and placed them on our Red Compliance list. The broker, founded and controlled by Russians, has a spicy past. The broker and its co-founder and president Ildar Sharipov were investigated for money laundering in the UK. Parts of its assets have been frozen. The controversial Russian Sergey Mayzus was a co-founder and is said to have pulled the strings until the end.
Pavel Kalashnikau is the beneficial owner, shareholder, and director of the Estonian registered FXCash OÜ, the operator of the Forex rebate service platform FxCash. The idea is that you register on FxCash as a trader, open an account with one of the listed brokers and get back up to 95% of the spread from each trade, a cashback service for Forex. FxCash is mainly used by offshore brokers but, unfortunately, also by broker scams.