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 […]