Mohamed Vagner, Call centre fraudsters given four-year sentences

The Olomouc Regional Court today, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, handed down four-year prison sentences to three men linked to an organized crime group operating in Ukraine that defrauded people of money from local call centers, with the total damage estimated at 33 million crowns. According to the verdict, the men posed as employees of Czech banks and demanded that people transfer their allegedly endangered money to other bank accounts. All three men, including one foreigner, entered into a plea agreement with the prosecutor from the Olomouc High Public Prosecutor's Office. The agreement was approved by the court today. Daniel Kopecek, Mohamed Vagner (photo) and Ilya Kalinin from Moldova were facing significantly higher sentences, but they achieved the extraordinary reduction of their sentences below the criminal threshold by cooperating from the beginning. According to prosecutor Lucie Slamova, they also described the activities of the organised criminal group. However, criminal investigators also relied on other evidence, including call recordings, monitoring of call centre activities and searches. (CTK Photo/Ludek Perina)