A swindler who stole 5 million rubles under the guise of selling mining equipment was detained in Simferopol

She found an advertisement for the sale of equipment at a favorable price through a popular Internet service. I contacted the seller, agreed on a deal, transferred funds, but never received the goods. The total damage amounted to more than 5 million rubles. Over the course of two years, investigators have done a lot of work to establish the location of the attacker, a 38-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg. Wanting to avoid responsibility, he regularly changed his residential addresses. As a result of operational search activities, police officers detained him in the city of Evpatoria— reported the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Crimea.

The investigative unit of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Simferopol opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Currently, the defendant has been chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention.

source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea