November 11, 2022
8.30pm
An international criminal group involved in high-risk cryptocurrency investment scams operating in 5 countries was arrested days ago. This was announced by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, quoted by “24 Chasa”.
The illegal operation of call centers in Kiev has been stopped. The action of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office was coordinated with European police services dealing with massive investment fraud. The number of victims of the scam is estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, together with law enforcement agencies and international partners, on November 8 and 9, 2022 in Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, North Macedonia and Ukraine conducted searches of call centers and arrested suspects, reports from Kiev.
The suspects belong to an international organized crime group involved in high-risk cryptocurrency investment scams. For this, dozens of call centers have been created in different countries and hundreds of online platforms.
The suspects posed as brokers who would help investors make big money on small investments. They scammed victims, gained their trust on the Internet, and set up call centers. The latest victim invested funds through web platforms controlled by a criminal organization and lost large sums of money.
According to the survey, hundreds of thousands of investors around the world have been victims of fraud. The damage is estimated at 200 million euros a year. Cyber fraud investigation started in 2020, also in Ukraine.
As part of the investigations, searches were conducted at the call centers and at the homes of the suspects, some of whom were in European countries. In addition, IT equipment with which illegal activities were carried out was seized.
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office together with the Preliminary Investigative Body of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine and with the operational assistance of the Cyber Police Department of Ukraine conducted a series of searches and found illegal activities of the call center in the Kiev Territory. During the search, a large number of computer equipment was seized: more than 500 laptops, surveillance cameras, mobile phones.
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