Law enforcement officers have exposed a criminal group that fraudulently seized goods and funds from an online cosmetics and perfumery store. According to the Kyiv region police, the suspects operated in the Kyiv, Rivne, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions.
The scheme involved using hacked foreign bank cards: without the owners' knowledge, the attackers made payments on the marketplace for goods and gift certificates, which were then resold through online platforms. In this way, they received illegal profits, and the company suffered losses of over 700 thousand hryvnias.
After dismantling the criminal network, police conducted simultaneous searches at the suspects' residences. Cash, mobile phones, laptops, bank cards, draft notes, and several cars that investigators believe were used in criminal activity were seized.
Criminal proceedings have been opened on the fact of fraud under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud on an especially large scale). The perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. Investigative actions are ongoing, the involvement of other persons is being checked and a full mechanism of money laundering is being established.
