The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office and district prosecutors have conducted a large-scale operation, resulting in the shutdown of call centers that specialized in fraud in the financial services sector.

It has been established that a group of individuals operates in Kyiv, organizing so-called call centers with the aim of unlawfully obtaining citizens' funds, offering to invest money in cryptocurrency or profitable trading on stock exchanges, as well as earnings on cryptocurrency platforms.

Operators, posing as employees of banking institutions, investment, and telecommunications companies, obtained confidential data from citizens, access to personal accounts, and their funds. 

Today, prosecutors from the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, as part of the investigation into criminal proceedings regarding fraudulent acquisition of citizens' funds, conducted 15 searches at the locations of the fraudulent "call centers" in the city of Kyiv.

During the searches, computer equipment (more than 300 system units and laptops), mobile phones, starter packages, various forged identification documents, and other physical evidence relevant to the criminal proceedings were seized.

Also, in the offices where the "call centers" were located, symbols of the aggressor country, portraits of Putin, as well as thank-you notes from the FSB, and forms of Russian documents, the origin of which is being established, were found.

Currently, investigative actions are ongoing. The organizers of the illegal call center are being identified.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings is being conducted by investigators of the capital's police.