The Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office together with the district prosecutor’s offices conducted a large-scale operation, during which stopped activity of 15 call centers engaged in fraud in the field of financial services.
The investigation established that an organized group of people was operating in the capital, creating fictitious call centers with the aim of seizing citizens’ money. Fraudsters offered to invest funds in cryptocurrency, supposedly profitable trading on stock exchanges or earnings on crypto-platforms.
Operators of these centers, pretending to be employees of banks, investment or telecommunications companies, gained access to personal data, personal accounts and financial resources of the victims. As part of the criminal proceedings regarding the fraudulent acquisition of funds, the prosecutors of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office conducted 15 searches at the addresses where these call centers operated.
As a result, more than 300 pieces of computer equipment, mobile phones, starter packs, forged documents, as well as other physical evidence relevant to the investigation were seized. In the premises of the offices, paraphernalia of the aggressor country was also discovered: portraits of Putin, letters of thanks from the FSB, forms of Russian documents, the origin of which is currently being established.
Investigative actions are ongoing, persons involved in the organization of illegal activities are being identified. The pre-trial investigation is carried out by investigators of the capital police.
