The Security Service and the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine have shut down a network of underground online services that operated through the russian payment system Webmoney, which is banned in Ukraine.

Part of the transfers through this platform was intended to finance enemy agents in Ukraine.

As a result of operations in Ukraine’s 10 regions, the law enforcement uncovered 12 dealers suspected of the unlawful activity.

According to the investigation, the participants of the scheme illegally accepted electronic funds from customers, including those from russia, and then converted them into the required currency and transferred them to a bank account or to cash.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, they have transferred tens of millions (in Hryvnia equivalent) through their exchangers.

The network got a cut of each transaction. To find potential clients, they placed ads on specialized websites.

During the searches in Ternopil, Lviv, Rivne, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Sumy, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia and Zaporizhzhia regions, the SSU and ESBU seized computers, mobile phones and bank cards with evidence of the crimes.

All 12 persons involved have been notified of suspicion under Article 200.1 of the CCU (illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production).

The decision to qualify their actions also under Article 209 of the CCU (money laundering) is pending.

The operation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.