{"id":16037,"date":"2024-08-12T17:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kyiv-court-to-hear-case-of-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:52:36","slug":"kyiv-court-to-hear-case-of-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kyiv-court-to-hear-case-of-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-investment-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv Court to Hear Case of Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Investment Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian law enforcement has concluded its investigation into ten members of a criminal group accused of soliciting funds under the guise of cryptocurrency investments. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kyiv_pro_office\/4348\">reported<\/a> by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme was orchestrated by three residents of the Zhytomyr region, with acquaintances from various regions of Ukraine also involved in the illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>Group members posted advertisements in Telegram chats, offering profits from trading on cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-655-768x1024.png\" alt=\"image-655\" class=\"wp-image-238788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-655-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-655-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-655.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Kyiv Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to case materials, investors were persuaded to purchase cryptocurrency and transfer it to the virtual wallet of the scheme&#8217;s organizers. The perpetrators promised returns of 2-3%.<\/p>\n<p>After initial successful payouts, the fraudsters requested larger sums and then disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been sent to court, and the accused face lengthy prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that an official from Chernihiv was caught engaging in illegal mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian law enforcement has concluded its investigation into ten members of a criminal group accused of soliciting funds under the guise of cryptocurrency investments. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. The scheme was orchestrated by three residents of the Zhytomyr region, with acquaintances from various regions of Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1246,16],"class_list":["post-16037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-scammers","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}