The police exposed a fraudulent call center headed by the former “Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR.” This was reported by the press service of the National Police of Ukraine.
“Under the guise of security officers from leading Ukrainian banks, the attackers made telephone calls to citizens, interfered with their mobile banking and transferred the victims’ money to the bank accounts of dummies, international cryptocurrency exchanges and gambling platform accounts. The police are identifying all the victims; the amount of damage caused may exceed 100 million hryvnia,” the police said in a statement.
Investigators have established that the organizer of the criminal group is a resident of the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region, who held the position of “Minister of Foreign Affairs” of the so-called “DPR” in April 2014. Cells of the criminal group operated in Russia, in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in some other regions of Ukraine.
During the large-scale operation, 38 searches were carried out in six regions of the country and the criminal activities of an organized crime group were documented. It was established that the group operated on the territory of Ukraine from August 2022 to November 2023.
Six defendants were declared suspected of fraud, as well as thefts committed by an organized group of persons.
“A petition to select a preventive measure in the form of detention was presented to four of them. Other defendants who are hiding abroad have been put on the international wanted list,” the police said in a statement.
