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The attackers made announcements in Telegram channels about the alleged cryptocurrency exchange, investing electronic funds in which you can make a profit. However, in fact, investors transferred their assets to the attackers personal crypto wallets and lost funds.
Investigators of the Darnytskyi Police Department, together with employees of the Department of Countering Cybercrime in Kiev and the procedural management of the Darnytskyi District Prosecutor's Office, exposed a network of call centers that embezzled funds from citizens under the guise of a cryptocurrency exchange. In total, law enforcement officers exposed nine defendants aged from 20 to 25 years and conducted 28 searches at their places of residence in the Kiev, Rivne and Zhytomyr regions.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that two residents of the Kiev region organized a criminal community. They joined the cooperation of seven so-called call managers. In the future, the organizers were engaged in advertising their earnings services in Telegram channels. Other participants in the scheme issued their own cryptocurrency wallets for a cryptocurrency exchange and promised investors to receive profits from investing their virtual assets, but later they appropriated the monetary assets of citizens and stopped communicating.
During the searches, law enforcement officers seized dozens of phones, computer equipment, 36 bank cards, about 54 thousand US dollars and two cars, the market value of each of which can be 20-25 thousand dollars. The petition for the seizure of funds and vehicles was sent to the court for consideration.
All members of the criminal organization were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The investigators informed the detainees about suspicion under Part 4 and 5 of Article 190 (fraud committed on a particularly large scale or by an organized group, through illegal operations using electronic computing equipment) and Part 1 and 2 of Article 255 (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it). The Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Four defendants were given preventive measures in the form of detention, and the court placed five more suspects under house arrest. The maximum penalty that suspects can face is up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
• Source: https://kyiv.npu.gov.ua/news/pid-vy...y-diialnist-potuzhnoi-zlochynnoi-orhanizatsii
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Investigators of the Darnytskyi Police Department, together with employees of the Department of Countering Cybercrime in Kiev and the procedural management of the Darnytskyi District Prosecutor's Office, exposed a network of call centers that embezzled funds from citizens under the guise of a cryptocurrency exchange. In total, law enforcement officers exposed nine defendants aged from 20 to 25 years and conducted 28 searches at their places of residence in the Kiev, Rivne and Zhytomyr regions.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that two residents of the Kiev region organized a criminal community. They joined the cooperation of seven so-called call managers. In the future, the organizers were engaged in advertising their earnings services in Telegram channels. Other participants in the scheme issued their own cryptocurrency wallets for a cryptocurrency exchange and promised investors to receive profits from investing their virtual assets, but later they appropriated the monetary assets of citizens and stopped communicating.
During the searches, law enforcement officers seized dozens of phones, computer equipment, 36 bank cards, about 54 thousand US dollars and two cars, the market value of each of which can be 20-25 thousand dollars. The petition for the seizure of funds and vehicles was sent to the court for consideration.
All members of the criminal organization were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The investigators informed the detainees about suspicion under Part 4 and 5 of Article 190 (fraud committed on a particularly large scale or by an organized group, through illegal operations using electronic computing equipment) and Part 1 and 2 of Article 255 (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it). The Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Four defendants were given preventive measures in the form of detention, and the court placed five more suspects under house arrest. The maximum penalty that suspects can face is up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
• Source: https://kyiv.npu.gov.ua/news/pid-vy...y-diialnist-potuzhnoi-zlochynnoi-orhanizatsii
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