In the Poltava region, the cyber police of Ukraine seized a criminal group that conducted fictitious sales of agricultural equipment, receiving monthly up to a million hryvnias from gullible farmers, the press service of the cyber police said.

Fraudsters created many shell companies and through them carried out “sales” of agricultural equipment on the Internet.

The Kiev department of the Department of Cyber ​​Police and police detectives of the Poltava region, under the procedural leadership of the prosecutor's office of the Poltava region, seized a criminal gang consisting of seven people aged 28 to 44 years. Criminals conducted their illegal activities for several years. They placed on the network advertisements for the sale of expensive agricultural machinery at very low prices. Most often, their victims were farmers who wanted to save, but ended up losing all their money. To cover their tracks, scammers used proxy servers and anonymizers located in different countries of the world. They used online services to calculate profits.

During the search, a lot of computer equipment, an impressive number of additional information media and drafts of the group’s members were seized from the criminals. All equipment found was sent for examination. Currently, a pre-trial investigation is underway, criminal proceedings have been launched under Article 190 part 3 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The police are busy looking for people affected by the criminal actions of Poltava scammers.