A criminal organization linked to fraudulent call centers was uncovered at the Office of the Prosecutor General

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced the exposure of a criminal organization whose members, according to the investigation, systematically received illicit benefits from fraudulent call centers and laundered those funds.

The organizer of the scheme, law enforcement believe, was one of the heads of the structural units of the Office of the Prosecutor General. According to the investigation, he created and led the criminal organization in mid-2025. The official involved current employees of the prosecutor’s offices and unofficial associates close to him in its activities.

According to the case materials, members of the organization established a systematic scheme of receiving bribes in exchange for non-interference in the illegal activities of so‑called call centers. The investigation claims that these structures were massively deceiving citizens of Ukraine and other countries.

The funds obtained by criminal means were laundered by the suspects through several channels. Investigators established that:

• over 20 million UAH were spent on real estate, jewelry and other valuable movable property;
• assets with a minimum market value of more than 12 million UAH were, according to the investigation, laundered by the head of the organization by re-registering them to third parties to conceal the true owner;
• among such assets was real estate in a popular apartment complex near the Carpathians;
• over 10 million UAH the group members placed in the bank accounts of close associates, passing these funds off as legitimate income from business activities.

So far, law enforcement has exposed five members of the criminal organization. Their actions have been preliminarily classified under Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it. In addition, the suspects’ actions were qualified under Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — legalization, or laundering, of property obtained by criminal means.

Investigative actions are ongoing. Law enforcement are identifying other possible members of the criminal organization.

It was previously reported that a fraudulent call center was exposed in Mykolaiv. NABU also conducted a special operation that a member of parliament described as the detention of an employee of the Office of the Prosecutor General. In addition, media outlets reported searches at the Prosecutor General, his deputy and the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration. The Office of the Prosecutor General issued a statement at the time.

Earlier we wrote:

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• NABU announced a scheme to legalize 150 million UAH for bail in the “Midas” case
• Fuel, apartments and other people’s money: fraudsters extorted almost a million hryvnias from behind bars
• Call centers, an ex-wife and $1 million: a new criminal story has emerged around Tyshchenko
• Scandal in the National Police: top officials suspected of covering up “porn offices”