Operation Carthage: When the Law protects the scammers
The NABU and SAPO just caught a massive ring of high-ranking officials who were literally on the payroll of criminal call centers.
It turns out that running a scam center is much easier when you have top-tier cover from the SBU, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General's Office. Under the name Operation Carthage, investigators exposed a cozy arrangement where officials were basically selling protection to the underworld.
The audacity is the real kicker here: one high-ranking SBU official decided that the best way to handle a legal search warrant from NABU was to pull a gun and block the door. They even called in their own special forces to protect their racket. It is a bold career move to threaten investigators with lethal force just to keep a fraudulent call center running.
Corruption is not just a bug in the system; in this case, it was the primary function.
Source: NABU
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