NABU accused SBU employees of protecting fraudulent call centers in Ukraine. According to the department, investigators identified a criminal group that organized the activities of telephone scammers and paid bribes to Ukrainian law enforcement officers. According to NABU, senior employees of the SBU, the police and the Attorney General's Office were involved in the crimes. On Wednesday, the department's detectives arrived to search the home of one of the SBU officers, who began threatening them with a firearm. SBU special forces arrived at the scene of the incident. The intelligence service approved investigative actions against its employees, but did not name them. Ukrainian media, citing sources in law enforcement agencies, reported searches of three senior SBU officers, including the head of the Internal Security Department, Anton Kravchuk.