Russia claims to bust global scam network linked to Georgian ex-defense minister

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it detained about a dozen members of Milton Group, an international call-center fraud network that allegedly ran fake investment scams in multiple languages and defrauded over 100,000 people across numerous countries. The report details arrests, multilingual call-center raids showing teams targeting victims in English, French, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese, claims of $1M/day illegal profits, alleged links to a former Georgian defense minister, and references prior OCCRP investigations into the group's operations.