According to the Kazakhstan police network, local time on the 18th, recently, Kazakhstan and Armenian police joined forces to successfully dismantle a transnational criminal group that carried out telecommunications network fraud against citizens of Kazakhstan and European countries.
The operation was launched in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where police raided two dens of the group, arresting 41 suspects and seizing a large amount of equipment used for fraud and illegal assets, including gold, dollars, rubles, Georgian lari, and cryptocurrencies, among others.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, the fraud group lured the public into "investing" by posting false investment information, thereby defrauding them of money. The arrested suspects have complex nationalities, including citizens of Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
Currently, the police forces of the two countries are jointly interrogating the suspects and further investigating other involved parties and the extent of the victims' losses.
