Milton group

{{Short description|Organized crime group}}

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Milton group is the name given to an organized crime network of scamming operations, operating globally, and run largely from call centres in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kyiv, Ukraine.{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Max |last2=Weinglass |first2=Simona |last3=Turner |first3=Mark |last4=Gunter |first4=Joel |title=On the hunt for the businessmen behind a billion-dollar scam |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65038949 |access-date=21 July 2023 |work=BBC News |date=12 April 2023}}

BBC Eye Investigations uncovered 152 brands used by the Milton group, including Solo Capitals, an ostensible cryptocurrency trading firm in Georgia, CoinEvo and EverFX.

EverFX were a leading sponsor of the Spanish football club Sevilla FC, and defrauded at least 170,000 people, many in Spain, until EverFX was banned by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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