According to Ukrinform, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said this in a Facebook post.

"Under the procedural guidance of prosecutors, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the National Police are carrying out a large-scale operation to expose such centers across the country. Since the beginning of last week alone, 411 searches have been conducted, 94 fraudulent call centers have been shut down, and 1,794 operator workstations have been dismantled," the statement said.

Investigative actions were carried out in the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, as well as in other parts of the country.

During the searches, law enforcement officers seized more than 3,336 pieces of computer equipment, 1,346 phones, 5,238 SIM cards, 20 crypto wallets and 90 bank cards.

They also seized 22 vehicles, including Porsche Cayenne, Cadillac Escalade, Bentley Bentayga, Dodge Charger, Audi, Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 cars, as well as BMW motorcycles.

More than $2 million, EUR 64,000, cash in Ukrainian hryvnias, a kilogram of investment gold bars, luxury watches by Rolex, Cartier, Rado and Certina, and other jewelry were also found.

"The schemes varied, but the goal was always the same – to steal other people's money. The organizers recruited staff who spoke foreign languages, trained operators using specially prepared scripts and, in many cases, subjected employees to polygraph tests in an attempt to protect their criminal activities from exposure," Kravchenko said.

According to him, some operators posed as consultants offering lucrative investment opportunities. Others lured people onto fake trading platforms. Still others targeted people who had already lost money to scammers and defrauded them again, allegedly offering assistance in "recovering their investments."

"To make [their schemes] more convincing, they used forged documents, posed as lawyers, bank employees and government officials, and employed deepfake technology. In some cases, after people lost their savings, they were persuaded to take out loans, borrow money and sell their property," Kravchenko said.

Read also:SSU: Fraudsters increasingly pose as law enforcement officers

The proceeds were converted into cryptocurrency, split among electronic wallets and withdrawn through third-party accounts. The profits were invested in luxury real estate, land, premium vehicles and other luxury goods.

The victims included citizens of Ukraine, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia and other European Union and Central Asian countries. Preliminary estimates put the total losses at more than $100 million.

"To dismantle these transnational fraud networks, we are cooperating with foreign partners through joint international investigative teams. So far, 26 people have been formally notified that they are under suspicion. Further work will involve analyzing the seized data, identifying all victims, organizers and everyone else involved," Kravchenko said.

Law enforcement officers previously shut down a network of pseudo-investment fraud centers operating in various regions of Ukraine. Their members are suspected of using the guise of cryptocurrency investments to defraud Ukrainian citizens and citizens of other countries of more than UAH 40 million.