“Scam Empire”, an international investigation into the mafias of scams with false investments
For several months, an international consortium of thirty-four media, of which The worldinvestigated the mafias of scams with false investments. The “Scam Empire” project, coordinated By organized crime and corruption of reportscould have access to 1.9 teraoctet of internal data from two criminal organizations specializing in these scams, obtained by Swedish public television SVT and shared with the consortium and the NGO Qurium.
The first, AK Group, operates with three call centers in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and extorted for a total of at least $ 35.3 million (around 33 million euros) from people from several countries, between mid-2022 and 2025. The second, called “Saphir network”, stole at least $ 240 million, including around 2.9 million dollars French, since 2021. More than the sums, these documents show, for the first time, the internal cogs of these criminal operations.
