The cyber police, together with investigators from the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and foreign colleagues, stopped the group's activities and froze the assets of the attackers in more than 20 countries.
Since 2019, scammers have created more than 100 web resources where they offered depositors to receive super-profits from investing in cryptocurrency and trading securities on virtual financial markets.
To communicate with potential investors, scammers have set up call centers in Ukraine and Georgia. Several hundred people worked there. The defendants selected operators with knowledge of foreign languages and trained them to use social engineering methods when communicating with "clients". Scammers convinced citizens to make significant investments.
Victims were also persuaded to install special software to carry out financial transactions. In this way, fraudsters gained remote access to the victims computers and transferred their savings to controlled accounts. The victims were mostly Swiss and German investors.
Operatives of the Cyber Police Department and investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police, under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office, together with colleagues from Eurojust and Europol, with the involvement of law enforcement officers from Georgia, Germany and Switzerland, conducted a multi-level international operation to neutralize a transnational criminal group.
As part of a joint investigation with law enforcement agencies of the Swiss Confederation, mass searches were conducted on the territory of Ukraine and Georgia. Computer equipment, mobile phones, cash and documentation were seized. At the same time, the assets of the organizers of the criminal group in more than 20 countries were frozen on the territory of the EU countries.
Investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police are investigating criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Article 190 (Fraud). The Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to eight years of imprisonment. Swiss law enforcement officers are also investigating criminal proceedings under Article 147 (Fraud) and Article 305 (money laundering). Criminal Code of the Swiss Confederation.
Investigative actions are continuing to establish all the victims and the final amount of damage caused, as well as other accomplices of the defendants.
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Since 2019, scammers have created more than 100 web resources where they offered depositors to receive super-profits from investing in cryptocurrency and trading securities on virtual financial markets.
To communicate with potential investors, scammers have set up call centers in Ukraine and Georgia. Several hundred people worked there. The defendants selected operators with knowledge of foreign languages and trained them to use social engineering methods when communicating with "clients". Scammers convinced citizens to make significant investments.
Victims were also persuaded to install special software to carry out financial transactions. In this way, fraudsters gained remote access to the victims computers and transferred their savings to controlled accounts. The victims were mostly Swiss and German investors.
Operatives of the Cyber Police Department and investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police, under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office, together with colleagues from Eurojust and Europol, with the involvement of law enforcement officers from Georgia, Germany and Switzerland, conducted a multi-level international operation to neutralize a transnational criminal group.
As part of a joint investigation with law enforcement agencies of the Swiss Confederation, mass searches were conducted on the territory of Ukraine and Georgia. Computer equipment, mobile phones, cash and documentation were seized. At the same time, the assets of the organizers of the criminal group in more than 20 countries were frozen on the territory of the EU countries.
Investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police are investigating criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Article 190 (Fraud). The Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to eight years of imprisonment. Swiss law enforcement officers are also investigating criminal proceedings under Article 147 (Fraud) and Article 305 (money laundering). Criminal Code of the Swiss Confederation.
Investigative actions are continuing to establish all the victims and the final amount of damage caused, as well as other accomplices of the defendants.
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