Investigators have established that organised criminal groups operating on the territory of Ukraine are appropriating citizens' money. These structures use rented offices, websites, and computer equipment to commit crimes, subsequently laundering the stolen funds through office companies. Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The operation scheme of the fraud network
A separate network in Zaporizhzhia Oblast is described. According to case materials, the criminals rented offices in business centres where hundreds of operators worked. They made calls to citizens in Ukraine, Europe, and Asia. The fraudsters posed as employees of banking institutions or state bodies, collecting personal data and information about bank accounts. To this end, they used, among other things, phishing links, after which they transferred funds from online banking to prepared accounts.
The investigation also notes the presence of a clear hierarchy within the criminal structure, adherence to secrecy, and established schemes for removing or destroying evidence in the event of police arrival.
Searches in Dnipro and Cherkasy
During the investigation, law enforcement conducted a search in Dnipro at the address: 4 Lypynskoho Street, fifth floor of the Stroom business centre. The prosecutor attributed the seized equipment to NaMomenti Krypto LLC. This company, registered three months before the search with a charter capital of 1,000 hryvnia, appears in the materials as the owner of the equipment from the office, which, according to the investigation's version, is part of the call centre network.
The second search was conducted in Cherkasy at 21/1 Smilianska Street, on the third floor. The seized property was linked to Data Konsalting LLC. According to registry data, the company code is 43158684, and Andrii Ihorovych Hlyhala is listed as the director. The company's legal address is 1 Dobrovol'skoho Street in Cherkasy, which differs from the search address. The charter capital is also 1,000 hryvnia, and the economic activity code (KVED) is listed as market research.
Other network sites
The criminal proceedings materials also list other addresses that the investigation considers part of the criminal network: 226 Sobornyi Avenue and 38 Oleksandrivska Street in Zaporizhzhia; 35 Patorzhynskoho Street and the fifth floor of the "Comfort City" business centre at 16 Pylypa Orlyka Avenue in Dnipro.
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