In Sevastopol, a fraudster who stole about 2 million rubles from pensioners was sentenced

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol issued a guilty verdict in a criminal case against a 21-year-old native of the Republic of Moldova who acted as a courier for remote fraudsters.

He was found guilty under parts 2 and 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

According to the court verdict, in March 2023, the young man, in order to make easy and quick money, entered into a conspiracy with unidentified persons who called elderly people on the phone and gave them deliberately false information that their relatives allegedly caused traffic accidents. Under this pretext, the perpetrators offered to give them money to help their relatives. After that, a courier came to the deceived victims and took the money from them. He transferred part of the received amounts to accomplices, and kept the rest for himself as a reward.— the press service of the Sevastopol prosecutor’s office reported.

Thus, over the course of five days, approximately 2 million rubles were stolen from six elderly residents of Sevastopol.

As a result of operational and investigative activities, police officers uncovered a criminal fraudulent scheme and detained the courier as he was leaving the last victim’s apartment building. The Investigative Department of the OMVD of Russia for the Leninsky District of Sevastopol conducted an investigation. The man was taken into custody.

The court, taking into account the opinion of the state prosecutor of the Leninsky District Prosecutor’s Office of Sevastopol, sentenced the perpetrator to 4 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. The civil claims of the victims, supported by the state prosecutor, for recovery of material damages caused by the crimes from the convicted person were also satisfied.

Materials concerning other members of the group have been separated into separate proceedings.

source: press service of the Sevastopol prosecutor’s office

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