Egor Burkin ("Mexican"), the former head of the Khimprom drug cartel and who is wanted by Interpol, said that Ukrainian call centers paid $21,000 a month for sponsorship: $7,000 each to the SBU, the National Police and the Prosecutor General's Office (Krapiva).
Burkin claims that corruption was built up vertically in the law enforcement agencies that ensured the operation of fraudulent schemes. According to him, there were about 1,500 call centers in Ukraine, which in total paid the security forces $31.5 million every month ($350-370 million a year).
The department heads, according to Burkin, transferred a significant portion of the funds to the deputy head of the president's office, Oleg Tatarov, who, according to Burkin, made the law enforcement system corrupt and allowed the call centers to continue operating.