The Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of Belarus for the Brest Region stopped the criminal activity of a group of citizens laundering money from telephone scammers.
The State Control Service press service reported this on Telegram.
How Brest Region Residents Laundered Fraudsters' Money
The group included four residents of Brest region. In 2022-24, the group was engaged in legalizing the funds of fraudsters who lured money from people under the pretext of earning money by investing in precious metals, oil, gas, and shares of large companies.
The group members opened card accounts in the names of fictitious individuals, to which the fraudsters’ victims transferred money.
Card accounts changed periodically. Their number was in the hundreds.
The stolen funds were used to buy cryptocurrency, which was then transferred to the scammers' cryptocurrency wallets. The group members received 5% of the turnover.
The roles of each of the group members were clearly divided, and serious measures of conspiracy were used in their activities, the State Control Committee noted.
Communication took place via instant messengers, using SIM cards from both foreign and Belarusian mobile operators.
In total, the group members laundered more than 4 million rubles.
Now they are involved in a criminal case and are in custody.
The suspects had 25 bank cards, 42 SIM cards from Polish, Belarusian and Russian operators, 16 telephones and seven units of computer equipment confiscated, confirming their criminal activity.
Measures are being taken to find property to compensate for the damage caused to the victims.
