Police forces from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic have successfully dismantled two transnational criminal groups of internet scammers.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, two call centers of scammers were shut down in the city of Zaporizhia. The criminals, posing as bank employees and law enforcement officers, would call Kazakhstani citizens and extract their account information. Nine individuals have been detained in connection to this operation. During the raids, 17 units of computer equipment, 62 mobile devices, and 35 grams of the drug "methadone" were confiscated.
In the city of Odessa, three fraudulent call centers were dismantled. They were also involved in internet fraud under the guise of investments in large fake companies. Twenty-three individuals have been apprehended, with nine suspects placed in pre-trial detention centers. The authorities seized eight cars, 58 laptops, 52 smartphones, over 100 sim cards, and digital assets amounting to over 200,000 US dollars.
"The investigation and operational-search measures are ongoing at the moment," stated the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shyngys Alekseev.
