Interior Ministry uncovered a network of 300 phone scammers sending money to the AFU

Nine participants of a fraudulent organization of call centers have been detained in Moscow. They directed the stolen money to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), among other things. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk in Telegram on December 11.

"The victims transferred money to accounts controlled by the organizers of the criminal business, after which communication with them ceased. According to available information, the stolen funds were directed, among other things, to the financing of the Armed forces of Ukraine", - stated in the publication.

According to the law enforcers, the attackers organized the activity of several call centers designed for 500 workplaces. Specialists of the organization communicated with citizens of foreign countries, offering to invest savings in cryptocurrency and various trading platforms.

On this fact, a criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud on a large scale") was initiated, said Volk.

More than 300 people worked in the offices of the criminal organization at the time of arrival of police officers there, said the representative of the Interior Ministry.

According to her information, nine detained and imprisoned participants of the scam committed fraudulent acts against Serbian citizens. The attackers caused damage to them in the amount of about 30 million rubles.

Volk noted the scope of the illegal activities of the organization, which confirms the presence of the "business" has its own recruitment agency for the selection and training of personnel, as well as security services.

"The police continue to work on the establishment of all accomplices and episodes of illegal activity," - concluded the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

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Earlier in the day Volk told about the growth in the number of recorded facts of fraud by phone. According to her, there is an increase in the number of phone frauds, in which the con artists present themselves as employees of law enforcement agencies.

Before that, on December 9, the FSB detained the heads and employees of the Russian branch of the international network of call centers, who were engaged in fraud against citizens of the European Union (EU), Great Britain, Canada, Brazil, India and Japan under the guise of investment transactions.

The FSB identified the heads of call centers on the territory of Russia, who in 2022 disseminated false information about the preparation of terrorist attacks on the infrastructure of Moscow, Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk. Citizens of Israel and Ukraine were detained. A total of 11 people - managers and employees of Russian call centers - were detained within the framework of the FSB criminal case.