In Crimea, the police stopped the activities of a group of scammers. «Specialization» was non-standard

CrimeaPRESS reports:

In Crimea, employees of the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia authorized to carry out operational-search activities in the field of information technology, in cooperation with the Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, documented the activities of a group of persons suspected of committing fraud under the pretext of paying compensation for previously purchased low-quality medicines and biologically active additives. Malefactors in the criminal activity used modern information technologies, communicating with victims exclusively by means of the Internet. The detainees chose mainly citizens of the Republic of Crimea as victims, so as not to fall into the field of view of law enforcement officers.

The operatives managed to get on the trail of swindlers at the beginning of this year, despite the conspiracy measures taken by the attackers. The police found several «call centers» in Simferopol, from where calls were made via IP-telephony. One of the premises was converted into an office for systematic video calls, where investigators found various paraphernalia for changing appearance, providing for the performance of certain roles: a false mustache, beard, lawyers’ certificates and other fictitious documents with signs of forgery.

It has been established that the criminal activity of the group has been carried out since 2014 on the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the Moscow region. For each member of the criminal group, the organizer assigned separate roles. One of them purchased databases of citizens on the darknet, another checked the correspondence of information, the rest made calls, posing as lawyers, employees of Russian and Kazakh banks, representatives of transport companies, etc. The operatives revealed the money transfer and cashing schemes used by the attackers.

More than 7,000 unique subscribers have been identified, who received calls from the so-called «call centers». About three hundred victims transferred money to fraudsters in the amount of one hundred thousand to several million rubles.

Together with the preliminary investigation authorities, with the assistance of employees of the regional departments of the FSB, the National Guard and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, fourteen searches were carried out, as a result of which databases of citizens of the Republic of Crimea, large sums of money were seized funds in rubles and foreign currency, mobile phones, computers, bank cards, etc.

Based on the materials of the operatives, the investigators of the investigative unit of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea initiated criminal cases on the grounds of crimes provided for by parts 2, 3 and 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In relation to two suspects, a measure of restraint in the form of detention was chosen.

Investigative actions and operational search activities are ongoing to identify all the facts of crimes and identify possible accomplices.

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

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