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The Federal Security Service of Russia has stopped the activities of an international network of call centers that acted in the interests of former Georgian Defense Minister David Kezerashvili. According to the FSB Public Relations Center, about 100,000 people from more than 50 countries, including the EU, Great Britain, Canada, Brazil, India and Japan, suffered from the actions of fraudsters.
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According to the agency, the call centers were part of an international organized crime group and were engaged in fraud under the guise of investment transactions. According to FSB estimates, the daily income of the call centers reached $1 million. The fraudsters acted in the interests of the former Minister of Defense of Georgia and founder of Milton Group David Kezerashvili, who is hiding in London.
One of the heads of the call center network, a citizen of Israel and Ukraine, Ya. D. Keselman, was detained. The second, a citizen of Israel and Georgia, D. Todva, was put on the wanted list. According to the special service, in 2022, the defendants, on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine, distributed anonymous messages about impending terrorist attacks at critical infrastructure facilities in Moscow, Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod.
A total of 11 heads and employees of the Russian offices of the call centers were detained. The FSB Investigative Department opened a criminal case under Art. 210 (organization of a criminal community), Part 4 of Art. 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) and Part 3 of Article 207 (deliberately false report of an act of terrorism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In late November, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested David Kezerashvili in absentia. A TASS source claimed that he was put on the international wanted list in a case of especially large-scale fraud. Mr. Kezerashvili was previously wanted in Russia in a case of war crimes in South Ossetia during the 2008 war.
David Kezerashvili headed the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in 2006-2008 under President Mikheil Saakashvili. After the change of power in Georgia in 2012, several criminal cases were opened against Mr. Kezerashvili, and he left the country. In 2021, he was sentenced in absentia in Georgia to five years in prison in a case of embezzlement of public funds.
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According to the agency, the call centers were part of an international organized crime group and were engaged in fraud under the guise of investment transactions. According to FSB estimates, the daily income of the call centers reached $1 million. The fraudsters acted in the interests of the former Minister of Defense of Georgia and founder of Milton Group David Kezerashvili, who is hiding in London.
One of the heads of the call center network, a citizen of Israel and Ukraine, Ya. D. Keselman, was detained. The second, a citizen of Israel and Georgia, D. Todva, was put on the wanted list. According to the special service, in 2022, the defendants, on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine, distributed anonymous messages about impending terrorist attacks at critical infrastructure facilities in Moscow, Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod.
A total of 11 heads and employees of the Russian offices of the call centers were detained. The FSB Investigative Department opened a criminal case under Art. 210 (organization of a criminal community), Part 4 of Art. 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) and Part 3 of Article 207 (deliberately false report of an act of terrorism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In late November, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested David Kezerashvili in absentia. A TASS source claimed that he was put on the international wanted list in a case of especially large-scale fraud. Mr. Kezerashvili was previously wanted in Russia in a case of war crimes in South Ossetia during the 2008 war.
David Kezerashvili headed the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in 2006-2008 under President Mikheil Saakashvili. After the change of power in Georgia in 2012, several criminal cases were opened against Mr. Kezerashvili, and he left the country. In 2021, he was sentenced in absentia in Georgia to five years in prison in a case of embezzlement of public funds.