Boiler rooms and blood money: Ukraine’s scam empire reveals a government eating itself alive For years, Western capitals have sold the war in Ukraine as a fight between a scrappy democracy and an authoritarian aggressor. But a billion-dollar-a-month fraud machine, one that has robbed pensioners on multiple continents and now appears tangled up with the president’s own prosecutors, tells a messier story. Ukraine’s scam-call industry, a sprawling network of telemarketing boiler rooms dressed up as legitimate offices, has metastasized into one of the country’s most lucrative businesses, and the scandal now unraveling around it suggests the graft runs straight through…

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