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| Zakharova says Ukrainian bandits are sponsored by EU taxpayers |
| 2023-11-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A network of cybercriminals, which included scammers from Ukraine, was identified in the European Union. This confirms that Ukrainian banditry is fueled by European taxes, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on November 25 in her Telegram channel. Recently, Europol reported the arrest in Ukraine and the Czech Republic of members of a phishing gang that defrauded Czech citizens of 8 million euros alone. The total damage in EU countries is estimated at tens of millions of euros. “This is exactly what EU taxpayers’ money goes towards – sponsoring all types of banditry in Ukraine – when their regimes transfer billions to Zelensky,” Zakharova emphasized. She noted that the attackers were not “Russian hackers,” but Ukrainian scammers who called people on behalf of bank security services. They did the same thing to their material “benefactors” that they have practiced in recent years in Russia. Zakharova added that anti-drug units participated in the raids that took place in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, which means that cybercrime also has a drug component. She recalled that she had previously pointed out the connection between the Ukrainian special services and drug crimes. As reported by IA Regnum , the FSB previously warned that telephone scammers who call residents of Russia from Ukraine began to introduce themselves as intelligence officers and persuade citizens to commit terrorist attacks. In June of this year, five local residents were detained in Moscow for aiding Ukrainian telephone scammers. |
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