Overview
- Authorities from the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, coordinated by Eurojust, carried out 72 searches on December 9 across Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv.
- Twelve people were arrested out of 45 identified suspects, with ongoing efforts to locate the remaining members of the network.
- Seized items included 21 vehicles, cash, weapons, computers and phones, forged police and bank IDs, as well as a polygraph machine.
- The organization operated call centers staffed by roughly 100 recruits from EU countries on commissions of up to 7%, with lofty bonuses promised but never delivered.
- More than €10 million was stolen from over 400 victims through tactics such as impersonation, coerced transfers to supposed ‘safe’ accounts, remote-access software, and in‑person cash collection.