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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) announced the exposure of a 'criminal organization' whose members are suspected of taking money from fraudulent call centers and laundering millions in illicit gains. The scheme's organizer is named as the head of a structural unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General. Anti-corruption bodies gave the operation the name 'Carthage'.
According to NABU, as reported by Kv, this is stated in NABU's press release.
According to NABU, an official of the Office of the Prosecutor General established and led the organization in mid-2025 year. He involved both current prosecutors and unofficial associates close to him in the activity.
“The participants of the criminal organization.set up a mechanism of systematic acceptance of bribes for not obstructing the illegal activities of so-called call centers. These shadow structures committed fraudulent actions on a large scale, affecting both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners,” the post says.
The obtained funds were laundered by the defendants through a number of schemes.
According to the Bureau:
More than 20 million UAH were spent on acquiring real estate, jewelry, and valuable movable property.
More than 12 million UAH (the minimum market value) are assets that the head of the organization laundered by transferring ownership to third parties to conceal the real ownership. In particular, this refers to real estate in a popular apartment complex near the Carpathians.
More than 10 million UAH the participants placed on bank accounts of their close relatives under the guise of legitimate income supposedly earned from entrepreneurial activity.
NABU reports the exposure of five participants in the organization.
Preliminary legal qualification: Art. 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (creation, leadership of a criminal group or organization, and participation in it); Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalization (money laundering) of assets obtained by criminal means).
Investigative actions continue. Other possible participants in the criminal organization are being identified.
As a reminder, 19 August of this year NABU and SAP reported the exposure of an organization operating under the leadership of current and former members of the Ukrainian parliament, with the participation of high-ranking officials of the Office of the President of Ukraine and other individuals. The operation was named 'Forest Gump'. It referred to ensuring the posting of 150 million UAH as a bail for one of the case's defendants, Herman Haluschanka. For this, the defendants used the state-owned Sents Bank.
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