NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have exposed an organization involved in bribery schemes involving call centers, with the participation of an official from the Office of the Prosecutor General
NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have exposed a criminal organization that systematically received bribes from fraudulent call centers and laundered millions in illicit proceeds.
According to the investigation, the scheme was organized by one of the heads of a structural unit within the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to investigators, in mid-2025, the official established a criminal organization and became its leader. He enlisted current employees of the prosecutor’s office and individuals close to him in the illegal activities.
Law enforcement officials believe that members of the group systematically received bribes in exchange for allowing the fraudulent call centers to operate unhindered.
These call centers defrauded people on a massive scale, including both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners. According to the investigation, the organization’s members subsequently laundered the criminally obtained funds through various schemes.
The investigation established that over 20 million hryvnias of illegally obtained funds were spent on the purchase of real estate, jewelry, and other valuable property.
Another approximately 12 million hryvnias represents the minimum market value of assets that the group’s leader, according to law enforcement officials, concealed by re-registering them in the names of third parties.
Among these assets is real estate in a popular apartment complex near the Carpathian Mountains.
In addition, members of the criminal organization deposited over 10 million hryvnias into bank accounts held by their relatives. They attempted to disguise the funds as supposedly legal income from business activities.
To date, law enforcement officials have identified five members of the criminal organization.
Their actions have been preliminarily classified under Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine—the creation of, leadership of, or participation in a criminal organization—as well as under Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine—the legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means.
The investigation is ongoing. Law enforcement officials are identifying other possible members of the criminal organization and examining all aspects of the scheme’s operations.
This was reported in a statement by NABU.
Earlier, prosecutors from the Chernivtsi Regional Prosecutor’s Office completed a pretrial investigation and filed an indictment with the court against the organizer and seven members of a transnational criminal organization.
Thanks to international cooperation, Ukrainian law enforcement officials, together with their colleagues from Europol, Eurojust, and the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Moldova and Romania, dismantled a fraudulent call center whose members defrauded citizens out of their money.
