The SBU and National Police have uncovered 94 fraudulent call centers: over $2 million and luxury cars were seized.

The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police conducted a large-scale special operation against fraudulent call centers. Ninety-four such centers, which had provided nearly 1,800 jobs, were shut down across the country.

Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko reported this.

According to him, since the beginning of last week, law enforcement officers have conducted 411 searches. During these searches, they seized more than 3,336 units of computer equipment, 1,346 mobile phones, 5,238 SIM cards, 20 cryptocurrency wallets, and 90 bank cards.

Law enforcement officers also discovered:

• over $2 million in cash;
• 64 thousand euros and a significant amount in hryvnia;
• about 1 kg of bank gold in bars;
• elite watches Rolex, Cartier, Rado, Certina and other jewelry;
• 22 vehicles, including Porsche Cayenne, Cadillac Escalade, Bentley Bentayga, Dodge Charger, Audi, Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, as well as BMW motorcycles.

As part of the operation, law enforcement officers shut down 1,794 operator workstations. Twenty-six suspects have already been served with notices of suspicion.

Investigative actions took place in many regions, in particular in the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Transcarpathia, Zaporizhia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

The scheme’s organizers recruited operators with foreign language skills and trained them to work according to specially developed scripts. In some cases, the workers were even polygraph tested to reduce the risk of information leakage.

The scammers posed as investment consultants, bank employees, lawyers, or government officials. They used fake trading platforms, forged documents, and deepfake technology to deceive.

After victims lost their own funds, the perpetrators could convince them to take out loans, lend money, or sell property.

The proceeds were converted into cryptocurrency and withdrawn through third-party accounts. Part of the proceeds were invested in real estate, land, and luxury cars.

According to preliminary estimates, citizens of Ukraine, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, and other EU and Central Asian countries suffered from the activities of these call centers. The total damage incurred exceeds 100 million hryvnias.

“The schemes were different, but the goal was the same: to take possession of other people’s money,” Kravchenko emphasized.