Ukraine's cyber police uncovered a major fraud, organized by prisoners, one of whom was in a colony in the occupied Donbas, while others - in the prison of Poltava.

This was reported in the press service of the National Police.

As it turned out, scammers lured credulous citizens money under the scheme "your relative in the police", as well as by sending out fake sms messages on behalf of "Oschadbank" and "PrivatBank".

The police found that the organizer of this criminal group was a 40-year-old man who served a sentence in a colony in the occupied territory of the Lugansk region and was "looking", enjoyed authority among other prisoners.

The police reported that the organizer of the fraud was going to return to the territory controlled by Ukraine after serving time in Lugansk region and was detained at the checkpoint "Stanitsa Luganskaya".

Other members of the criminal group "worked" from the SIZO in the Poltava region. According to the results of the investigation, a search was conducted in the detention center of Poltava, and then more than 20 mobile phones, a Wi-Fi router, flash cards, drugs, alcohol, sharpeners, money and rough records were seized in one of the cells.

As a result of the search, all the leaders of the Poltava SIZO were dismissed.

The detained members of the criminal group were accused of suspicion of "fraud" and "unauthorized interference with computers, automated systems, computer networks or telecommunication networks".

It is worth adding that the total amount of damage inflicted by group members to Ukrainians was estimated at more than 1.3 million hryvnia.

At the moment, some of the victims have already received compensation for damage caused by criminals.