MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and Interior Ministry have detained five people connected with an illegal virtual communications center, the FSB public relations center said on Monday.
"The Russian Federal Security Service, working together with the Investigative Department of the Russian Interior Ministry, has stopped the illegal activity of a group of people that organized and operated an illegal virtual communications center used by Ukrainian call centers for telephone fraud and for extorting large sums of money from Russian citizens," the FSB said.
Five members of the criminal group have been identified and detained. A court placed them under arrest, it said.
"According to preliminary information, over seven billion rubles were stolen from Russian citizens via just one communications center," the FSB said.