He is also the founder of investment company RNP[1] and a Russian Forbes contributor on matters relating to blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity.
Even though ChronoPay was headquartered in Amsterdam, the company developed into a true leader for processing credit card payments in Russia – controlling roughly 25% of the market share.
Dozens of important state banks and other payment providers are all dependent on former ChronoPay employees, not unlike McKinsey & Company's impact on management consulting.
Vrublevsky's Chronopay was serving[14] the infamous online store allofmp3.com, which was persecuted by the international society for collective management of copyrights IFPI[15] and was accused of infringing by the US during the negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO.
[14][19] In 2007, after the appearance of electronic air tickets in Russia, Vrublevsky engaged in processing in this area, organizing the project E-Avia.
[24][25][26] In 2009, Pavel Vrublevsky, part of the working group on combating spam under the Ministry of Communications,[27] initiated a campaign against his former partner Igor Gusev (according to Spamhaus rating of the world's main spammer[28]), the owner of the largest partner spam network for sale Viagra Glavmed.
[31] Also, according to media reports,[32][33] in 2012 Vrublevsky is preparing a deal to buy the oldest business publication in the country - the Financial Newspaper (1915), published jointly with the RF Ministry of Finance.
Two of Russia's most well-respected financial journalists, Nikolai Vardul and Raf Shakirov, worked with Vrublevsky and took the editorial reigns of the publication during its comeback.
[35] Weeks before the Kremlin publicly embraced Blockchain and Bitcoin, Pavel strongly advocated and trumpeted the cutting-edge technology eventually becoming Russian Forbes contributor on the ground-breaking development.
[36] In 2007, Pavel Vrublevsky first came under the pressure of the Central of Information Security of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation,[37][38] in 2010 he accused the CIS of the FSB of Russia of treason and the promotion of the myth of the Russian cyber threat, and in 2011 was arrested several times by officers of the FSB investigating a cyberattack on Aeroflot's online payment system.
[40] In 2016, on the basis of materials from Vrublevsky, officers of the CIS FSB were arrested[41][42] because of high treason,[43][44] which led to the termination of cooperation between the US and Russia on cybercrime.
However, recent events (arrests of Mikhailov's group and subsequent charges against Dokuchaev by the FBI in the United States) debunk Kreb's narrative about Vrublevsky's role.
For instance New York Times noted that the arrests of Mikhailov's FSB group «amounted to a purge of the leadership of the cyberwing of Russia’s main intelligence agency in the midst of the electoral hacking scandal, an issue carrying immense implications for Russia’s relations with the United States.» In an interview to New York Times Vrublevsky stated «“These guys were selling fairy tales to the United States about people doing business, like me.” In an interview to CNN Vrublevsky added «"I believe it's a good thing for both countries [Russia and US].
In the spring and summer of 2017, Vrublevsky conveyed to a number of leading world media materials testifying to the non-involvement of Russian hackers in attacks on the servers of the Democratic Party in the United States.
[58] In 2018 Vrublevsky heads the Payments Committee of IDACB.com, one of world's largest Bitcoin associations, founded by 65 member states ultra high- rank representatives.