In the Russian Federation, security forces have shut down a network of fraudulent call centers linked to the former Georgian Defense Minister
The FSB has detained members of an international network of fraudulent call centers in different cities in Russia. Their daily income was $1 million. The scammers swindled about 100 thousand people from more than 50 countries. According to the agency, the network worked in the interests of the former Georgian Defense Minister David Kezerashvili.
The call centers were headed by Israeli and Ukrainian citizen Ya. D. Keselman (he was detained), as well as Israeli and Georgian citizen D. Todva (wanted). According to security forces, in 2022, “on instructions from the SBU,” they distributed anonymous messages about impending terrorist attacks in Russian cities.
David Kezerashvili left Georgia in 2012, after the change of power in the country. The Georgian Dream government charged him in absentia with five criminal cases (he has already been acquitted of four of them) and put him on the wanted list. He later became a co-owner of the opposition TV channel Formula.
Recently, the police conducted searches in Kezerashvili's apartment in Tbilisi. Earlier, the ECHR, following a lawsuit by the Georgian authorities, confirmed that the official had embezzled $5 million intended for the Georgian army during his tenure, and he was not subject to any political persecution.
