The SBU cyber specialists blocked an extensive funding scheme for IAF members. The organizers operated under the guise of a fictitious investment company created in Kropyvnytskyi.

The average monthly turnover of dirty money was tens of millions of US dollars.

Allegedly, regional center residents jointly with the accomplices from separatist-held territories established a mechanism for obtaining money through the unlawful brokerage services. They created dedicated Internet platforms and set up an illegal call center in Kropyvnytskyi.

Operators called citizens and offered to invest money in the shares of well-known companies and guaranteed a quick income. Clients wired funds to fictitious persons’ accounts.

After that, the dealers laundered money through Russian payment systems banned in Ukraine, or legalized money using covert cryptocurrency transactions.

During the searches at the illegal office and the organizers’ residences of the scheme in Kirovohrad region, law enforcement officers found:

• computer equipment,
• software samples,
• means of communication,
• other items and evidence of illegal activity.

The investigative actions are underway to prosecute the perpetrators for the creation of a terrorist group or terrorist organization.

The operation was conducted by the SBU Office in Kirovohrad region under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor's Office of Kirovohrad Region.