A former lawyer was tried in Simferopol. Turned out to be some kind of scammer

CrimeaPRESS reports:

In Simferopol, a former lawyer of the Bar Chamber of the Republic of Crimea and his accomplice were convicted on charges of fraud on an especially large scale.

The evidence collected by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol was recognized by the court as sufficient to convict the former lawyer of the Bar Association of the Republic of Crimea and his friend. They were found guilty of fraud by a group of persons by prior conspiracy on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)— reported in Sledkom.

The investigation and the court established that in January 2022, a married couple from the Dzhankoy district turned to the then-current lawyer for legal assistance. The lawyer and his friend, having developed a plan, told their clients false information: supposedly after the man appeared before the investigator, he would be detained and taken into custody. The citizen was asked to issue a sick leave certificate for 38 thousand rubles and hide from the investigation until the situation is resolved.

Subsequently, the accomplices received from the spouses and their relatives more than 1.8 million rubles, which, according to the lawyer and his friend, will be used to stop the criminal prosecution, searches, operational search activities and search for the suspect, registration of disability for the person involved in the case, changing the classification of criminals actions. At the same time, the accomplices did not plan to fulfill their obligations; they could not influence the circumstances of the case.

The criminal actions of the lawyer and his friend were stopped by officers of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

By the court verdict, in accordance with the role they performed, the former lawyer and the woman were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 3 years and 8 years, respectively. Convicts will serve their sentences in general regime correctional colonies.

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