Journalist Mahmoud Allam issued a grave warning in an article about a platform currently targeting the Middle East.
🔴 A mysterious platform called Yango Play suddenly popped up out of nowhere a few months ago, and has recently become one of the biggest streaming and media platforms in the region!
If you take a closer look, you’ll see it presents itself as an “Arab” platform headquartered in Dubai. Inside, it’s packed with famous movies and TV series with proper broadcasting rights, and it even has big, original productions. On top of that, it brands itself as an all-in-one application — offering music, games, and is preparing to expand even more soon.
⚫️ But here’s the crucial question…
Who’s really behind this platform? Where did it come from? Who funds it? And what kind of data does it collect from users?
Is it truly an innocent “Arab” platform as it tries to appear? Or could it actually have links to the Zionist entity?
Focus with me now, because what follows may be one of the most serious investigations I’ve ever presented to you…
Here’s the full story:
It all started in Russia in 1997 with the founding of Yandex, by Arkady Volozh — a Russian of Kazakh origin. But what you probably don’t know is that he’s also an Israeli citizen, Jewish, and living in Tel Aviv.
Keep that detail in mind — we’ll come back to it later.
Yandex became one of the biggest Russian tech companies, often called “the Google of Russia,” since it provided almost all the services Google does — search, maps, food delivery, ride-hailing, even e-commerce.
⚫️ To understand better: Yandex and all its platforms were owned by a parent holding company called Yandex N.V., registered in the Netherlands (similar to how Google is owned by Alphabet).
🟢 Over time, Yandex grew massively and expanded internationally under the brand Yango. But in 2022, when the Russia-Ukraine war erupted, everything changed.
Western countries imposed sanctions on large Russian companies — and Yandex was among them. To survive, Yandex had to restructure its entire organization.
🟡 What happened after restructuring?
Yandex N.V. was split into several entities:
🟣 Nebius Group — formed from Yandex’s international, non-Russian assets. Headquartered in Amsterdam, it’s led by none other than Arkady Volozh, the Israeli citizen I mentioned.
Nebius focuses on AI technologies, cloud services, and AI infrastructure, with much of its work and partnerships based in Israel. According to Times of Israel, Nebius was recently selected to build a national Israeli supercomputer for AI — backed by billions in Israeli investment.
🟠 Yango Group — retained the Yango brand, ride-hailing, delivery services, and eventually created its own media division: Yango Play.
Yango Group set up its headquarters in Dubai, UAE, with Daniil Shuleyko as CEO.
Who is Shuleyko?
He was previously Global CEO of logistics and e-commerce at Yandex — a direct colleague of Volozh.
🔵 Here’s the shocking part:
Yango Group still operates in Israel — running Yango Taxi, Yango Deli, and other services. It also has registered Israeli subsidiaries such as Yango Enterprise Israel Ltd.
Yet in 2024, while maintaining business ties in Israel, Yango Group launched a platform specifically for the Arab audience: Yango Play.
🔴🟡 Yango Play was launched in early 2024 — just two months after the Israel–Gaza war erupted. Its goal: to rival platforms like Saudi Arabia’s “Shahid” and Egypt’s “Watch It,” while branding itself under an “Emirati” umbrella.
They poured massive sums into marketing, reaching millions of Arab households and phones. Popular YouTubers and influencers were paid heavily to promote it.
🟣 But where’s all this money coming from?
Officially, Yango Play is run by Yango Group UAE.
🟡 In reality, the app is legally tied to a shadow company called Funtech Loyalty Card Services L.L.C., which appears in its Play Store listing.
This company is almost invisible — no founder info, no clear ownership, no funding sources. Yet it is the legal entity you grant access to your phone and data when you download the app.
🔵 And what permissions does it take?
Brace yourself:
The app requests access to your search history, personal files, photos, videos, documents, contacts, email addresses, social media accounts, call logs, location history, live GPS location, and even audio recordings on your device.
(Screenshots from Play Store permissions confirm this.)
🔴 It gets worse:
Yesterday, investigative platform “Cairo Time” examined Yango Play’s official Facebook page. In the transparency section, they discovered about 50 admins, 12 of whom were based in Israel.
After Cairo Time published this, Yango Play quickly removed those admins. But screenshots were captured beforehand.
🟢 What does this imply?
It suggests that the editorial direction and marketing strategy of the platform may well be influenced — if not controlled — by Israeli entities.
⚫️ But the deeper danger lies in the data being harvested.
You think you’re just streaming shows or music, but in reality, the platform is recording your interests, behaviors, moods, and has full access to your phone files. A hidden backdoor could even give more access.
🔵 And today, this kind of data is far more dangerous than missiles. It’s used to shape opinions, manipulate societies, and build detailed databases of individuals — just like the databases Israel uses to monitor and target Palestinians in Gaza.
🟢 If the platform is partially managed from Israel, then its content may not be “entertainment” at all. It could be deliberately designed to subtly polish Israel’s image, undermine traditional values, and reshape Arab consciousness slowly and silently.
🟠 So the question remains:
Is Yango Play really an innocent “Arab” platform?
Or have we been witnessing, for over a year now, one of the largest brainwashing and data-harvesting operations in the region — disguised as art and entertainment?
🟡 The public urgently needs a clear and transparent response from Yango Play’s management.
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