More than €4.3 million (about 393 million rubles) was extracted from them.

The fraudsters gained trust, convinced people to invest in cryptocurrencies and stocks through front platforms. The organizer and three participants of the scheme have been detained.

Earlier in Ukraine another scandal flared up: NABU stated that employees of the SBU, the police and the Prosecutor General’s Office are involved in covering up fraudulent call centers.

For the first deputy head of the National Police department a bail of 15 million hryvnias (27 million rubles) was “promptly posted,” local media write. He was sent to a pre-trial detention center only yesterday.

It concerns Volodymyr Tsenov, who is involved in the NABU case on the cover-up of fraudulent call centers. Other Ukrainian security officials are also implicated in the scheme.