"Then who told you to do it? The operation has to be closed."
In addition to the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States (US), officers from the Ukrainian Cyber police unit and the Department of Major Investigation also cooperated with the State Prosecutor's Office to shut down the operations of nine cryptocurrency exchanges.
This is because the web platform has offered anonymous crypto as part of its plans to facilitate the verification of illegal funds.
Through the exchange as well, a criminal who cheats online by advertising his services on hacker forums can channel their acquired digital assets through the crypto platform.
Following the network infrastructure located on US servers, several European countries and Ukraine have all been blocked, investigators are now doing their best to identify every individual involved in the criminal activity.
Individuals who log into the web platforms 24xbtc.com, 100btc.pro, pridechange.com, 101crypta.com, uxbtc.com, trust-exchange.org, bitcoin24.exchange, paybtc.pro and owl.gold will get a message stating that the domain has been seized by law enforcement.
It is already known that Ukrainian government agencies are working to improve their expertise in crypto, where employees of the Cyberpolice, Asset Recovery and Management Agency and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) attended a training class organized by Binance in March 2023.
Earlier in November 2022, the cybercrime fighting unit uncovered a crypto-fraud scheme that generated more than $200 million a year by luring investors through a network of representative offices and call centers across Europe.
