The CEO Club director detained in Poland may have been the victim of a personal data breach
Dmytro Karchuk, director of CEO Club Ukraine, who was detained on July 28 at the Ukrainian-Polish border pursuant to a European arrest warrant issued by German law enforcement authorities, may have fallen victim to a freight fraud scheme common in the EU.
German investigators accuse him of stealing approximately 200 electric bicycles worth nearly 127,000 euros from a warehouse in Germany in 2024 while posing as a representative of a shipping company. Karchuk’s defense team emphasizes that he was physically in Ukraine at the time the offense was committed.
Serhiy Haidaichuk, president of CEO Club Ukraine, and journalists suspect that his personal data was used illegally. A key argument of the defense is that Karchuk does not possess a driver’s license of the appropriate category to operate a truck. Most likely, the perpetrators created a forged document using his information and a photograph of another person, which is a typical method used by European fraudsters in cargo thefts.
Source: Ekonomichna Pravda.
Dmytro Karchuk, co-owner and CEO of the CEO Club Ukraine business community, was detained in Poland after crossing the Ukrainian-Polish border. He is currently in custody, and a Polish court has ordered him to remain in custody for up to 60 days as a pretrial measure. The arrest was made on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued at the request of German law enforcement agencies. According to the defense, the case file alleges suspicion of bicycle theft, which was allegedly committed while driving a truck on German territory.
Previously, the media outlet UA.NEWS won a lawsuit against the well-known Ukrainian businessman Vyacheslav Lysenko, co-owner of Meest China and CEO of Club Ukraine. Vyacheslav Lysenko sued our media outlet over a news story stating that the Economic Security Bureau had uncovered an underground casino and a fraudulent call center that may have been organized by the businessman.
The court ruled in favor of UA.NEWS: Mykyta Chemodanov lost the defamation case.
