- Seizures include 3 hardware wallets with about USD 1 million in cryptocurrencies on it
Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia, supported by Europol and Eurojust, have teamed up against organised crime groups involved in online investment fraud. This criminal network, comprising a number of different criminal actors operating through call centres, lured victims into investing large amounts of money into fake cryptocurrency schemes. Europol set up an Operational Task Force to support the cross-border investigation.
Call centres selling fake crypto taken down in Bulgaria, Serbia and Cyprus | Europol
The Action day on 11 January 2023 led to: 15 arrests, 14 in Serbia and one in Germany; 261 individuals questioned, some of whom are awaiting prosecution (42 in Bulgaria, 2 in Cyprus, 3 in Germany and 214 in Serbia); 22 locations searched (5 in Bulgaria, 2 in Cyprus, 15 in Serbia) including...
