{"id":584753,"date":"2026-10-03T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=584753"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:03:46","slug":"belarusian-authorities-report-major-crackdown-on-cryptocurrency-couriers-in-minsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-authorities-report-major-crackdown-on-cryptocurrency-couriers-in-minsk-region","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Authorities Report Major Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Couriers in Minsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Belarusian Interior Ministry reported<\/a> a major operation targeting cryptocurrency couriers who allegedly helped telephone scammers obtain victims\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

According to the Investigative Committee<\/a>, the suspects acted as couriers. They collected money from hiding places where victims, following the scammers\u2019 instructions, had left their savings. The funds were then converted into cryptocurrency and transferred to the electronic wallets of the scheme\u2019s organizers.<\/p>\n

With operational support from Interior Ministry special units, 19 people were detained in the Minsk region. Seven of them have been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

Investigators are establishing the circumstances of the group\u2019s activities, the number of victims, the amount of damage caused and any other possible participants in the scheme.<\/p>\n

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The Belarusian Interior Ministry reported a major operation targeting cryptocurrency couriers who allegedly helped telephone scammers obtain victims\u2019 money. According to the Investigative Committee, the suspects acted as couriers. They collected money from hiding places where victims, following the scammers\u2019 instructions, had left their savings. The funds were then converted into cryptocurrency and transferred to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":584752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac0fd378c648.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Authorities Report Major Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Couriers in Minsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584756,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584753\/revisions\/584756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}