European police bust Ukraine-based call center network behind $11 million in scams therecord.media/european-…
Law enforcement agencies from several European countries have dismantled a network of fraudulent call centers operating across Ukraine that defrauded hundreds of victims of more than $11.7 million, police said.
According to Eurojust, the EU agency for judicial cooperation, the criminal organization ran professional call centers in Kyiv, Dnipro and Ivano-Frankivsk.
The group recruited employees from the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and other European countries, bringing them to Ukraine to work in the call centers. About 100 people are believed to have been involved in the operation.
Czech police said it has become more common to move such call centers closer to the front line in an apparent attempt to deter law enforcement operations amid Ukraine’s war with Russia.
