The special services of the United Kingdom and the United States control and supervise Ukrainian scam call centers, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry said.
“The most important thing is that they [scam call centers] are fully controlled by the special services of Ukraine, the special services of the UK and the US. Remote thefts committed by these call centers affect us, destabilize the situation in the country and create distrust in the law enforcement system,” he said.
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Source: TASS News
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