According to Sputnik, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said that officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the police and the Prosecutor General's Office were involved in providing protection to fraudulent call centers, and that during searches authorized by the High Anti-Corruption Court an SBU official threatened the agents with a weapon and obstructed the work.

Ukraine's National Police said it had suspended the officers targeted by the searches pending an internal investigation. According to Le Monde, SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, which involves members of the secret services, the Prosecutor General's Office and the police.