CrimeaPRESS reports:
Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Gagarinsky District, as a result of operational search activities, detained a young man suspected of fraud and attempted fraud under the scheme “Your relative got into an accident.”
It was established that a 23-year-old Muscovite previously convicted of extortion, on the instructions of anonymous curators, arrived from the capital to the territory of the Republic of Crimea in order to carry out illegal activities. Upon arrival on the peninsula, following the instructions received, the suspect settled in one of the Yalta hostels, and the next day he went on a criminal tour to Sevastopol. Arriving by taxi at one of the addresses, the courier, under the pretext of releasing his granddaughter from criminal liability, took almost one and a half million rubles from an 83-year-old pensioner and disappeared. He immediately transferred the money stolen by fraud to his accomplices, leaving himself 10% of the amount as a reward.— reported the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sevastopol.
While trying to commit a similar crime against another resident of Sevastopol, the accomplice of the swindlers was caught red-handed by criminal investigation operatives.
In relation to the detainee, the police investigating authorities initiated criminal cases under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and part 3 of Art. 30, part 2, art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation «Fraud». The maximum sanction provides for a sentence of imprisonment for up to ten years in prison. The defendant was taken into custody.
source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Sevastopol
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