In Dnipropetrovsk region, police detained members of a criminal group who organized a conversion center for money laundering
The monthly movement of funds in the accounts of companies reached about 100 million hryvnias. The received funds were spent on real estate, cars, expensive jewelry and invested in their illegal business.
The criminal activity of the group continued from 2016 until it was exposed by the police department of combating cybercrime in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the investigative department of the Regional State Administrative Service under the procedural direction of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.
The group was organized by former spouses from the city. Verkhnodniprovska and 36-year-old resident of the city. Dnipro. Through a network of specially created fictitious business entities, they carried out commodity-free financial and economic transactions. By attracting intermediaries, the attackers registered more than 70 enterprises that did not plan to actually conduct business.
In the future, using the seals and details of these companies, the defendants allegedly concluded agreements on the supply of goods, the provision of services and the performance of works to real entrepreneurs and government agencies. After the receipt of non-cash funds to the accounts of fictitious enterprises, they were withdrawn in cash through bank cards issued to fake persons.
The police also found that employees of enterprises acting as customers of goods and services, who were responsible for financial and accounting reporting and had access to electronic accounts of taxpayers and systems for managing accounts of enterprises were involved in illegal transactions. For the provision of this kind of “services”, they received certain percentages of the amount of transferred funds for each fictitious transaction. For the most part, these were officials of agricultural and farming societies registered in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as some budgetary institutions.
Financial and economic operations were carried out using the software for filing tax reports “M.E.Doc”, and funds were transferred using the Client-Bank system.
On April 14, at the places of residence, registration of those involved, in office premises on the territory of the city. Dnipro and m. 9 searches were carried out in Verkhnodniprovsk. As a result, law enforcement officers seized more than 800 thousand hryvnias, computer equipment, seals and stamps of more than 70 companies created by the defendants, accounting and accounting materials of fictitious financial transactions, as well as bank cards used in criminal activities.
Currently, examinations have been appointed, the results of which will determine the property damage caused. Police officers take measures to identify all members of the group. The issue of notifying them of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 362 (unauthorized actions with information that is processed in electronic computers (computers), automated systems, computer networks or stored on carriers of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it), part 2 of Art. 366 (service subsection) is resolved processing), Part 2 of Art. 364 (abuse of power or official position), Part 2 of Art. 364-1 (abuse of powers by an official of a legal entity of private law, regardless of the organizational and legal form), part 4 of Article 190 ( fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Department of communication of the police of Dnipropetrovsk region
