Million UAH of losses: Fraudulent sales center in Dnipro exposed
Law enforcement officers of the Dnipropetrovsk region exposed a sales center with illegal millions of turnover. The activity was organized by the so-called “sightseer” behind the left bank of the city of Dnieper. In addition, the man enlisted the support of another “criminal authority”. He was in charge of withdrawing funds from abroad and transferring them into cash.
The defendants involved 20 operators. They called the victims from a rented office in the center of Dnipro. Under the guise of appeals from real local banks, operators contacted Ukrainians who went abroad in connection with the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Next, employees of the security service of banking institutions presented themselves and asked the victims to download the application allegedly to protect their personal data. Through it, fraudsters received the data of persons on bank cards and their accounts.
The withdrawal of money took place on electronic wallets and bank cards of so-called drops - “transit” bank accounts of persons for money stolen by fraudsters. Subsequently, the cash was withdrawn through the conversion center in Dnipro and distributed among themselves.
At present, 11 victims have been identified, who have suffered damages of one million hryvnias.
The 14 defendants were charged with the creation, leadership of a criminal organization and participation in it, as well as fraud (part 1, 2 of article 255, part 4 of article 28 part 4 of article. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
National Police of Ukraine
