Ten charged in Ukraine over crypto investment scam targeting Czechs

Ukrainian authorities have charged ten people with fraud and money laundering over a cryptocurrency investment scam that allegedly defrauded Czech victims of tens of millions of crowns, the Czech News Agency reported citing the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office. The Moravian-Silesian regional police, which assisted in the investigation, confirmed the report. According to investigators, the suspects targeted Czechs by phone from October 2024 until the present, luring them into fake cryptocurrency investments.