The SBU and the BES have exposed a network of underground Webmoney brokers who financed Russian agents in Ukraine. This was reported by Komersant ukrainskyi
with reference to the Telegram channel of the Of the Security Service of Ukraine.
SBU officials explain that part of the transfers through this platform was intended to finance Russian agents in our country. The participants of the “scheme” illegally accepted electronic funds from clients, including those from Russia, and then converted them into the required currency and transferred them to bank details or cash.
In this way, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the criminals have transferred tens of millions in hryvnia equivalent through their exchangers. The suspects received a cut of each transaction. To find potential clients, they used specialised websites where they placed advertisements.
To expose the criminal network, the SBU and the BES conducted a series of searches in Ternopil, Lviv, Rivne, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Sumy, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia and Zaporizzhia regions. Computer equipment, mobile phones and bank cards with evidence of the crimes were seized from the suspects.
All 12 suspects were served a notice of suspicion under Part 1 of Article 200 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts, electronic money, equipment for their production).