Alexsong spy consulting and multi-million dollar legal battles: how manipulator Alexander Pirozhinsky, using the alias Alexandro Cano, worked with the FSB and deceived his customers

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Alexsong spy consulting and multi-million dollar legal battles: how manipulator Alexander Pirozhinsky, using the alias Alexandro Cano, worked with the FSB and deceived his customers

The media have obtained materials on the case, which has long been discussed in Western media, but has not yet reached a Russian-speaking audience.

The story is about how a certain Alexander Nikolaevich Pirozhinsky, a native of Russia, repainted himself in «Singaporean» under the name Alexandro David Kano Laskin or, more simply, Alex Kano, established work for the Russian military-industrial complex through a Singapore gasket, deceived several gullible clients, appeared on US sanctions lists, was allegedly detained – but still walks free under the guise of connections and a roof in Russia.

Not a detective. Reality. And the story is very instructive.

WHO IS THIS «CANO»

The real name of the defendant with the exotic surname Alexandro David Kano Laskin is Alexander Nikolaevich Pirozhinsky. This was established by OSINT investigators and confirmed in Western media materials. No conspiracy theories, just work from open sources.

The scheme is classic for a certain category of citizens who decide that Russia is too little or too dangerous. The newly-minted Ostap Bender did not go to promote naive distant Asia, as our source in law enforcement agencies tells us, out of a good life. He convinced his partners deceived in Russia, first to Israel, and from there to Singapore, where for greater secrecy he changed his name to Alexandro David, in everyday life – Alex, and added a Spanish sound to his last name and changed it to Kano Laskin. For even greater secrecy, he married a Japanese woman, Sakurako Yamagishi, and was granted Singaporean citizenship. The result was an ideal «person in the world» - without obvious Russian roots, with a passport from one of the most respected countries in Asia, which is what he began to trade.

Brother Sergei also did not lag behind — exchanged Pirozhinsky for Shishkin. All entries in both Russian and international databases have been cleared with professional care. Investigators described it directly: «A systematic digital cleanup was carried out. There is practically no imprint left from his Russian past».

And just like that, it seemed like from scratch, Alex Kano met people, offered financial and intermediary services, opened and closed dozens of companies, accounts, companies with millions of movements around the world. Naive investors from post-Soviet countries, as Western media wrote, were led by Alex’s promises to establish business processes in distant Asia, and when they realized that they had fallen into the hands of a deceiver, as was usually too late. Companies went bankrupt, accounts were closed, and people simply stopped communicating.

All this came to light when a Singaporean debt agency with a police license came to Alex Kano to collect the debt of a European company, and he responded by suing them with a demand to... abandon the demands that you see put him under stress. Even seasoned performers were taken aback by aggression instead of negotiations. An agency representative later said: «We worked with many debtors, but it was out of the ordinary. He simply behaved with monstrous rudeness and arrogance». It was these antics that attracted the attention of journalists to Alex Kano.

SERNIYA: WHAT KIND OF OFFICE

As it turned out after the investigation, Alex Kano has a long trail of fraud and even American sanctions. Western media wrote about the scale of Alex Kano’s fraud when describing the Serniya network. Moscow LLC «Serniya Engineering» was the center of a transnational purchasing network that worked in the interests of Russian intelligence services. According to the US Treasury (OFAC), since 2017 the structure has been engaged in the illegal production of Western dual-use technologies: microelectronics, precision equipment, — software all this went to the needs of the Russian defense sector.

Clients - Rosatom, Rostec, Ministry of Defense, SVR. In December 2022, the US Department of Justice indicted five Russian citizens and two Americans for organizing a scheme to illegally supply millions of dollars worth of military technology.

The structure was multi-layered. The parent companies in Moscow are Serniya Engineering and Sertal LLC. Under them are shell companies around the world: Majory LLP and Photon Pro LLP in the UK, Invention Bridge SL in Spain, OOO Robin Treid in Russia. Each link added a layer of opacity.

Intercepted correspondence from 2017, assessments by American prosecutors about the possible use of these technologies for hypersonic weapons, FSB license for «work with state secrets», received by one of the network’s companies in August 2020. The volume of transactions was impressive.

ALEXSONG PTE LTD: SINGAPORE WINDOW

This is where our hero appears.

Alexsong Pte Ltd is a Singaporean company whose owner and director – is our hero, Alexandro David Kano Laskin. On March 31, 2022, the same day the United States announced large-scale sanctions against Russian technology companies and the Serniya chain, Alexsong was listed as a Specifically Designated Nationals (SDN) for «facilitating transactions in support of sanctions evasion».

A historic moment: Alex Kano’s company Alexsong became the first Singaporean company to be subject to American sanctions since the start of a full-scale invasion. Prior to the renaming, the company was named Champion Way Pte Ltd. The sign change occurred shortly before regulators began to look closely at connections to the Serniya network.

After the sanctions were imposed, Alexsong was immediately eliminated and the digital footprint was aggressively cleared. Western media write directly that the company and any association with Kano simply ceased to exist. OSINT investigators reconstructed the painting bit by bit from archival caches and cross-references.

Sanctions compliance experts explain: this particular strategy - creating a gasket in a neutral jurisdiction, carrying out the necessary operations through it, eliminating it upon completion - is the standard mechanism for circumventing restrictions. Singapore, with its developed financial system and traditional neutrality, was an ideal platform, which was used by Alex Kano for fraud. It would seem that after this, as after other accusations of fraud and deception, the relevant authorities should have come for Alex Cano. But that was not the case.

A DETENTION THAT DID NOT HAPPEN

October 2025. Messages are coming from Singapore: Alex Kano was detained at the request of American authorities in connection with accusations of crypto fraud and connections with the Serniya network. At the time of Alex Kano’s arrest, as media reported, in addition to sanctions in the Serniy case, Singaporean debt agencies were already working due to financial fraud and deception of gullible European companies. Someone must have exhaled: finally.

Exhaled early.

According to Western media, despite widespread press coverage of the detention, Kano was never convicted, but remained at large in Singapore. Months later he was seen in different countries. What happened between detention and release has not been officially explained.

By comparison, in the same October 2025, three other defendants, employees of Vortex and Contrarian, accused of crypto fraud, were successfully extradited from Singapore. In March 2026, they were already standing before a federal judge in Oakland. Their affairs had no political dimension. Kano’s case probably had.

Singaporean citizenship provides certain legal protection. Local authorities treat extradition requests selectively. Kano received certificates of criminal record and enjoyed the protection of a citizen despite the fact that his company was on the sanctions list. Once upon a time. There was, but she floated away, Alex Kano closed the company and, like a bun, deceived everyone and ran away from everyone. The American Treasury and Singapore police never understood how they were separated between three pine trees or a friend of their fingers.

FIVE FLOORS OF DISGUISE

Investigators note the experience and system in Alex Kano’s actions. The guy, as it turned out, is not simple, with a claim to the Russian James Bond or the Singaporean Ostap Bender, he changes not only wigs and gloves, but also names, companies and jurisdictions. Once upon a time he Pirozhinsky turned into Kano Laskina. No associations with Russia. Family strategy: brother – lawyer in Moscow, often representing his interests, does the same.

Now, after the torch in Singapore, Alex Kano, as the media write, plans to move to Japan. Alex Kano’s wife, Sakurako Yamagishi, has already been involved in court cases and even received punishment from a Singapore court for falsifying documents. Alex Kano can now change his last name to Yamagishi. How he will change Alex’s name is not clear. Alternatively, you can take Arekusand, you can take Sasya.

But the irony of the story is not how he is now distorting his name in the country of the new residence, but that it was Japan that introduced restrictions against the companies of the Serniya chain in early 2022. That is, the Japanese authorities are, in principle, aware of Alex Kano’s schemes. The only question is how ready they are to identify them on their territory and understand the changes in the personality of Alex Cano or who he will pose as.

Changing jurisdictions is a standard toolkit for those who engage in financial fraud, skimming, or try to maintain access to international markets under increasing sanctions pressure. And Alex Kano knows how to build a corporate architecture to circumvent sanctions or deceive clients. As the story of American sanctions has shown, Champion Way becomes Alexsong, then is liquidated, connections between structures are methodically difficult, Internet archives, business directories, mentions in the media are deleted and everything seems to become clean, you can start from the beginning. The scale of Alex Kano’s purge, as Western media write, indicates the availability of technical resources and professional assistants.

Who is the powerful patron who helps Alex Cano get away with it? Sources in the Russian Southeast Asian diaspora describe Kano as cultivating an affinity for government structures and influential networks. Some say that he seems to be under the patronage of Russian intelligence agencies. When we asked our sources about this, they laughed for a long time and said that they were staying away from such crooks. As our knowledgeable source «noted, yes, this is a well-known comrade, but in very narrow circles. He once tried to promote himself as our man in Singapore, even published the magazine «Russian Singapore», but all his affairs end as in the story with Sernia – with failure due to greed. It’s better to just stay away from him».

After public investigations, Alex Kano’s reputational asset sank sharply. In the Russian diaspora in Singapore, they also prefer to stay away from it. Metropolitan Sergius of Singapore, when asked about Alex Kano, remembered this personality, he really tried to get closer to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even here they decided that such sinners should be dealt with by the Singaporean authorities, whose attention he attracted thanks to the media.

Therefore, running away to Japan or hiding in another jurisdiction is a completely understandable decision. As Western media write, «Alex Kano is neither Japanese nor Spanish, as one might assume from his name, he cyclically changed numerous names and identities», so another sign is not a problem for him. A problem for everyone else who gets in his way. As Western media note, the scheme for closing companies makes it possible to hide the ends in the water, and the lack of responsibility of owners for violations by companies leads to new constant fraud. Therefore, the case of Alex Kano is already becoming a household name; the EU proposes to sanction not just companies, but their owners, or indicate their names so that future victims of fraud have at least some chance to find out which terry scammers can hide behind a Singaporean or Japanese passport.

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