It seems like $class can also be of type yii\db\ActiveRecord; however, parameter $class of carono\exchange1c\models...roupClass::createTree() does only seem to accept carono\exchange1c\interfaces\GroupInterface, maybe add an additional type check?
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If this is a false-positive, you can also ignore this issue in your code via the ignore-type annotation