Categories: Incidents

A gang of “cryptocurrency arbitragers” was detained in the capital

Two residents of Kyiv and seven people from other regions were detained for distributing offers to make money on cryptocurrencies through TG channels and organizing two call centers near Kiev.

They convinced those deceived to transfer the crypt to their wallets, supposedly for arbitrage operations, the first transactions were carried out successfully, accruing the earned%, and when the victims already fully felt like “arbitrageurs” and decided to work with large sums in order to receive a larger% from the “arbitrage” - scammers , receiving large sums, stopped communicating.

During 28 searches, authorities seized dozens of phones, computers, 36 bank cards, two hundred SIM cards, more than $54,000 in cash and two cars worth more than $20,000 each.

The detainees were declared suspected of creating an organized crime group and fraud. Four of them were arrested, five were placed under house arrest. The perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.

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