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Participants in the Carthage case could have been “covering up” not only fraudulent call centers, but also the gambling business. In one of the conversations, a voice that, according to the investigation, belongs to Ivan Tymoshenko, a suspect in the case, talks about gambling being “also their topic.”
This is reported by Sledstvo.iInfo, citing sources in law enforcement.
Former head of the Department of Information Technologies at the Office of the Prosecutor General, Ivan Tymoshenko, received a suspicion within the scope of the NABU and SAP “Carthage” operation. 22 October, the High Anticorruption Court chose for him a preventive measure in the form of custody with an alternative to a bail of 8 million UAH.
According to Sledstvo.iInfo sources, Tymoshenko has had friendly relations with the suspect in organizing the scheme of “covering” fraudulent call centers, Serhiy Kropiva, for at least 2020 years. Since then they have worked together in leadership positions, notably in the National Police, the Odesa Regional State Administration, and the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Law enforcement believes Tymoshenko helped Kropiva organize the operation of the scheme. According to the investigation, he appointed Danila Slipchuk to the Department of Information Technologies of the Office of the Prosecutor General, through whom participants received cash from call centers, exchanged it for other currencies, and transferred it into cryptocurrency.
In addition, Tymoshenko helped attract other people to the scheme. In particular, as sources of Sledstvo.iInfo claim, he searched for “couriers” who collected cash from call-center representatives. To conceal these operations, passwords were used for meetings, and for transporting money — cars with different license plates.
Bribes from representatives of Tymoshenko’s “offices” were allegedly transmitted to Kropiva and distributed among other participants in the criminal organization.
The position of the man gave him access to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, which contains information about criminal proceedings. Law enforcement believes that this helped the participants of the scheme to control the situation around the call centers.
The Sledstvo.iInfo also has a conversation about fraudulent call centers and gambling. In it are voices that, according to the investigation, belong to Ivan Tymoshenko and deputy head of the State Tax Service Ihor Panchenko:
P.: And this, wait, OnlyFans — understood. And what’s so much about your popular one? Scammers, call centers — is this your topic?
T.: Well, us.
P.: The tubes, yours, right?
T.: Well, we are investigating who, what this is.
P.: Listen, okay, and this gambling, online gambling — is that also your topic?
T.: Well, yes.
P.: Oh, and you work with these, with PlayCity? This new thing in the Ministry of Digital Affairs that regulates gambling? No?
T.: No, in principle we can.
P.: Well, you don’t deal with this? This is your sphere.
T.: We currently have some content…
P.: There, money, there is a lot. It’s just a catastrophe. He’s not alone.
T.: No, well.
P.: There are hundreds there, there’s a whole army.
It should be noted that the Department of Information Technologies of the Office of the Prosecutor General, where Tymoshenko worked until 11 September, provides digital transformation, technical support, and information security for the prosecutors, and is not engaged in investigating fraud or gambling.
In addition, Sledstvo.iInfo also has a conversation in which, according to investigators, the voices resemble Tymoshenko and Kropiva:
K.: What about that?
T.: Vasilych, about what they said, that they are “fking,” on what.
K.: Price?
T.: Yes, the price.
K.: Yes, probably in any case. Well, this is clear even to a fool.
T.: But Dania has already reviewed everything, he said: we aren’t there.
K.: It’s good that there are people who…
T.: Well, like, for the plot it’s nothing, but with 800 how many? 10 people?
K.: Ah, those are 800 numbers, like?
T.: Well, 860 numbers, and there are 10 plots.
K.: But there are many who did not register, did not complete registration for themselves. Ivan Alexandrovich (laughs). There are, damn, smarter ones.
Recall that 4 September, NABU and SAP disclosed the first details of the Carthage operation, which exposed a criminal organization that protected illegal call centers. 11 September, the suspect Ivan Tymoshenko wrote a resignation letter from the post of head of the Department of Information Technologies at the Office of the Prosecutor General on his own accord.
Investigators believe that the participants in the scheme could have received 1 billion hryvnias of ill-gotten gains.
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