CrimeaPRESS reports:
In Kerch, police “hot on the heels” detained an accomplice of swindlers who took the savings from a pensioner. Online scammers worked according to the scheme “Your relative got into an accident”, at the same time “exchanging” their assistant — the “courier”.
A 27-year-old local resident turned to the duty station of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Kerch for help and reported that scammers had fraudulently stolen 150 thousand rubles from his grandmother, born in 1938. The applicant told the police that in the morning unknown people called his grandmother and said that her daughter had allegedly been in an accident and needed financial help. The trusting pensioner collected her last savings and handed them over to the courier who arrived to her.
During the operational-search activities, the criminal investigation officers detained the attacker in hot pursuit. He turned out to be a 21-year-old local resident. The young man did not deny his guilt and said that he decided to earn extra money and found a job advertisement on the Internet. The suspect guessed about the criminal nature of the earnings, but could not refuse the “easy” profit— reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.
A criminal case has been initiated under Part 2 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud”). The sanction of the article provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to 5 years. The defendant was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention.
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