The arrangement was organized by a forty-year-old Ukrainian from Dnipro. As executors, he involved two citizens of Ukraine and six people declared internationally wanted for fraud as part of a criminal organization of citizens of the Czech Republic. About this reports reported on the department's website.
The perpetrators used virtual telephony with number replacement and called residents of the Czech Republic, posing as employees of the state supervisory banking body. During the conversation, they persuaded the victims to provide remote access to their phone or computer, or found out bank card details and transferred funds to controlled accounts. In several cases, fraudsters convinced their victims to withdraw cash and hand it over to a bogus courier who was supposed to deliver them to a safe place.
In this way, they managed to defraud at least sixteen residents of the Czech Republic for more than 5,5 million hryvnias. Funds obtained from illegal activities were converted into cryptocurrency or used to buy luxury cars and real estate, which were registered to friends and relatives.
The cyber police established the location and identity of the criminals. Law enforcement officers conducted 23 searches, as a result of which, with the forceful support of KORD fighters, a special purpose police battalion, and operatives of the criminal investigation department of the GUNP in Odesa region, they detained all nine participants in the criminal scheme along with the organizer. During the search, computer equipment and mobile phones with evidence of committed crimes were seized, as well as elite cars of the accused and more than one hundred thousand dollars in various currencies.
The investigators of the National Police announced to the Ukrainian suspects that they are suspected of fraud committed on a particularly large scale by a criminal organization. They face up to twelve years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Foreign criminals are detained on the basis of the prosecutor's mandate, petitions have been sent to the court for referral to the court with the purpose of their further extradition to the Czech Republic.
The JIT helped the law enforcement officers to promptly stop the criminal activities of the international criminal organization - the agreement on the creation of a joint investigative group, which was concluded between Ukrainian and Czech law enforcement officers and was implemented under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office.
This is already the second case of a successful investigation into the illegal activity of call centers within the framework of the agreement on the creation of a joint investigative team (JIT) with Czech law enforcement officers. In September 2023, the National Police of Ukraine extradited six fraudsters to Czech law enforcement officials — they are currently in custody.
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