The security forces detained representatives of a criminal organization that, under the guise of good intentions, asked businessmen to donate money allegedly to the needs of the Ukrainian military. However, in reality, she appropriated the money for herself.
It should be noted that it is the cyber specialists of the Security Service of our state who are involved in the disclosure of this scheme. In fact, the swindlers introduced themselves as officials of the local authorities and asked the entrepreneurs for “assistance to the Armed Forces.”
How much money was appropriated by “philanthropists”
As noted in the press service of the power structure, the attackers managed to earn more than 3 million hryvnias on this scheme. However, fortunately, it has already been eliminated.
As the investigation established, the criminal scheme was organized by a citizen of one of the countries of Central Asia, who is located in the temporarily occupied part of the Luhansk region. He attracted nine more accomplices from the capital region and the South of Ukraine to illegal activities,” the SBU wrote.
Law enforcers are doing everything to catch the organizer of this scheme, bring him to justice along with other accomplices. So far, all 9 defendants in this case have been declared suspect, 5 of them have already been detained by the security forces.
How security forces detained attackers who allegedly collected money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine: view photos of the SBU
Note! The investigation will take place under parts 1 and 2 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code, which refers to the creation, management of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it. As well as part 4 of article 28 and part 4 of article 190 on fraud committed by a criminal organization.
At the same time, the SBU told in detail how this scheme worked – law enforcement officers found its confirmation when they conducted searches in the estate of fraudsters:
- on behalf of the heads of regional, city and district military administrations, the attackers send letters to Ukrainian businessmen asking them to transfer money allegedly to help “Ukrainian soldiers”;
- the amount depended on the scale of the company and ranged from UAH 20,000 to 100,000;
- the funds were withdrawn by attackers at ATMs in different regions of Ukraine.
How the SBU neutralized the FSB agents
To this topic, let us recall that not so long ago, the security forces detained agents of the enemy special services who worked for Russia in Odessa. It is interesting that one of the state traitors was the administrator of the channel “Model Odessa”.
He was informed of a suspicion under part 2 of article 111 of the Criminal Code, which refers to high treason under martial law.
