These are the strings printed on the trade licence itself. A firm that will not publish them is the first red flag on any verification checklist — so ours are here in full, with what each entry is.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Registered name | STAR COMPLIANCE CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES L.L.C The legal entity behind the StarCompliance brand — the name that appears on an engagement agreement, an invoice and in any correspondence. StarCompliance is the trading name of this company and of nothing else. |
| Trade licence | No. 1135542 Dubai commercial licence. This is the number to quote when checking the company with an authority, a bank or a counterparty. |
| Commercial register | No. 1876962 The register entry the licence refers to. |
| Dubai Chamber of Commerce | DCCI No. 439332 Chamber membership number carried on the same licence. |
| Issued | 12 January 2023 The date the current licence was granted. |
| Valid until | 11 January 2027 A licence is a renewable document, and its expiry is public information — so it is on this page rather than left for a reader to wonder about. |
| Owner and manager | Taras Podhorodetskyi Sole owner and manager named on the licence, holding 100% of the company. He is also the founder and CEO, and the person quoted in the external sources listed further down. His own profiles are below, so the name can be searched outside this site — which is what check 02 on /verify asks of any firm. A fintech entrepreneur with over half a decade of experience building secure and compliant solutions in the crypto industry, now working full time on crypto asset recovery. Founder and CEO of StarCompliance, and the sole owner and manager named on the company's Dubai trade licence. |
| Registered address | One Central, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates The address on the licence, and the address of the office. It is the same address that appears in the site footer and in our Google Business Profile. |
| Operating since / licensed since | Operating since 2022 · licensed in Dubai since January 2023 Both dates, always together. The company existed for roughly a year before the Dubai licence was issued, and stating only the earlier date would make the licence look older than it is. |
| Contact of record | [email protected] · +971 56 182 9077 The corporate address and number. We do not run a messenger-only intake: a firm reachable solely through a chat handle can disappear from it in a second. |
A trade licence records that the company exists, is registered at a named address and can be identified in a public register. It is not an endorsement of results, and no regulator anywhere licenses the recovery of stolen crypto as an outcome. Treat it as the floor a firm has to clear before its other claims are worth reading — not as one of those claims.
A logo wall proves nothing. The only test worth applying is to open the partner's own site and search for the firm's name — if a relationship is real, it is documented on both sides. Here are the two that are.
Swiss blockchain analytics firm. The partnership covers shared data and risk labelling, and gives our investigators their tracing and monitoring tooling. Their announcement quotes our founder, and its company boilerplate independently repeats four of our own figures — founded in 2022, a team of 30+ investigators, over $500 million traced in 2025, and more than $35 million recovered across 12 countries.
Read it on blog.globalledger.io →Blockchain analytics and AML technology provider. The partnership covers blockchain intelligence exchange for transaction labelling and gives our clients access to BitOK's KYT tooling, with the reporting a regulator or a court expects.
Read it on bitok.org →Every external mention of this company that we can point you at — these two announcements, an interview and a broadcast — is listed with its source on the press page. If a mention is not linked there, we are not claiming it.
The division below is the part clients most often assume wrongly: the forensics are in-house, the legal steps are not, and no part of the process is subcontracted silently.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Chains covered in-house | Ethereum · Bitcoin · Tron · BSC · Polygon · Solana |
| Jurisdictions worked across | 12 |
| Investigators and analysts | 30+ |
| Published case threshold | From $200,000 · smaller cases reviewed individually |
| Done in-house | Tracing, blockchain forensics, evidence packs, freeze requests, case management |
| Done by partner lawyers | Every legal step, by lawyers admitted in the jurisdiction of the case |
The figures in that table are published with the period each covers, and how every one of them is measured is set out on the figures page.
Each line here is something this industry asserts routinely and cannot evidence. Publishing the absence is what makes the rest of the page checkable.
One item on every serious verification checklist is still open on this site, and it is the one that matters most for a YMYL firm: the people.
Stock photographs and a "team of certified experts" line would close this section visually and answer nothing. It stays open until there are real profiles to publish — and check 02 on our own verification checklist tells you to hold that against us in the meantime.
The ten checks investigators run, answered for this company — and written so you can run them on anyone else.
Open →Every published number with what it counts, the period it covers, and what it does not tell you.
Open →The four sources on other people's domains, each with a link and a date.
Open →Disclaimer. The registry values on this page are transcribed from the company's Dubai trade licence and are stated as of 3 September 2026. Partnerships are listed only where the partner documents them publicly; the links go to the partner's own website, which we do not control. Nothing here is legal advice, and no outcome in an asset recovery case is promised — outcomes are decided by courts, exchanges and token issuers.