{"id":1320071,"date":"2025-11-13T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/telegram-and-crypto-wallet-border-guard-organized-illegal-border-crossing-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:19:23","slug":"telegram-and-crypto-wallet-border-guard-organized-illegal-border-crossing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/telegram-and-crypto-wallet-border-guard-organized-illegal-border-crossing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram and crypto wallet: border guard organized illegal border crossing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">SBI officers have exposed a border guard from Transcarpathia who was making money by illegally smuggling men across the border to Romania. For his &#8220;services,&#8221; he demanded $2,000 in cryptocurrency, communicating via Telegram.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s2\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/dbr.gov.ua\/news\/na-zakarpatti-dbr-vikrilo-kripto-perepravnika-vijskovij-prodavav-cholovikam-marshruti-do-evropi-cherez-virtualni-gamanci\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"s1\">the State Bureau of Investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">Investigators found that the head of a group in one of the border units used official information to organize an illegal departure. When a colleague asked to help an acquaintance, the soldier decided to cash in on the scheme and offered an illegal route for money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">He demanded that the payment be made via an anonymous crypto wallet. After receiving the funds, the suspect sent the &#8220;customer&#8221; a file with coordinates, a detailed route, and tips on how to avoid border control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">The State Bureau of Investigation charges him with Part 3 of Article 332 and Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Both articles provide for up to 9 years of imprisonment. Investigators have already filed a motion for detention and are checking possible accomplices among other officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/do-20-tysiach-dolariv-za-vtechu-z-viyska-dbr-vykrylo-uhrupuvannia\/\">the State Bureau of Investigation, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of the National Police, and the State Border Guard Service, exposed a criminal group<\/a> that organized the illegal transfer of military personnel across the state border and facilitated the desertion of military personnel for monetary reward.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/terakty-u-kyievi-provalylysia-sbu-vykryla-ahenturnu-merezhu-rf\/\">in Kyiv, the Security Service of Ukraine prevented a series of terrorist attacks that were being prepared by a resident of the Russian FSB<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBI officers have exposed a border guard from Transcarpathia who was making money by illegally smuggling men across the border to Romania. For his &#8220;services,&#8221; he demanded $2,000 in cryptocurrency, communicating via Telegram. This is reported by the State Bureau of Investigation. Investigators found that the head of a group in one of the border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1231139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1320071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}