{"id":86800,"date":"2023-11-09T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86800"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:46:41","slug":"in-ukraine-and-georgia-authorities-uncover-scheme-defrauding-eu-bitcoin-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-ukraine-and-georgia-authorities-uncover-scheme-defrauding-eu-bitcoin-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"In Ukraine and Georgia, authorities uncover scheme defrauding EU bitcoin investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npu.gov.ua\/news\/vykryto-mizhnarodne-zlochynne-uhrupovannia-iake-oshukalo-investoriv-ies-na-sotni-tysiach-ievro-kiberpolitsiia\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> that they have dismantled a network of fraudulent call centres and frozen the assets of the criminals in more than 20 countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to case materials, since 2019 the scammers created more than 100 sites offering outsized returns from investing in cryptocurrencies and securities.<\/p>\n<p>To communicate with potential investors, the fraudsters created call centres in Ukraine and Georgia. The victims were predominantly citizens of Switzerland and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>They were persuaded to install software allegedly for carrying out financial operations. However, in reality the scammers gained remote access to the victims&#8217; computers and diverted their savings to accounts under their control.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a joint investigation, searches were carried out in Ukraine and Georgia. Computer equipment, mobile phones, cash and documentation were seized.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the organisers&#8217; assets were frozen across more than 20 EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with the fraud, a criminal case has been opened, and the number of victims and the exact amount of losses are being established.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, Ukraine dismantled <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-ukraine-a-russia-linked-network-of-underground-bitcoin-exchanges-has-been-shut-down\">an underground network of cryptocurrency exchanges<\/a>, which operated with Russian payment systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cyber Police of Ukraine said it dismantled a network of fraudulent call centres and froze the criminals&#8217; assets in more than 20 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,389,1246,16],"class_list":["post-86800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-georgia","tag-scammers","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86802,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86800\/revisions\/86802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}