CrimeaPRESS reports:
Sevastopol operatives, in collaboration with colleagues from Yevpatoria, detained a 22-year-old accomplice of remote scammers.
Employees of the criminal investigation department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Gagarinsky district of Sevastopol detained a courier who took more than 3.1 million rubles from a pensioner who was deceived by telephone scammers under the “Your relative is in trouble” scheme. It was established that a 22-year-old resident of the Krasnodar Territory found an advertisement for work as a courier in the chat of a popular messenger, and in correspondence with an anonymous administrator specified the conditions for the upcoming criminal work and payment for services. Following the instructions of the employer, the young man headed to Sevastopol and paid a visit to a 92-year-old local resident, who had been called in advance by the scammers, introduced themselves as law enforcement officers and was told that his granddaughter was the culprit of the accident.— the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol gave details.
The criminals convinced the pensioner to hand over 800 thousand rubles to the courier under the pretext of not bringing his relative to criminal responsibility, after some time they demanded more than one million rubles, allegedly for an urgent operation for his granddaughter, and for the third time they deceived him into withdrawing one million from his bank account, allegedly to expose the criminals. In all cases, the same young man came for money.
As a result of operational search activities, employees of the Sevastopol criminal investigation department established the identity and location of the suspect and, in cooperation with colleagues from Yevpatoria, detained him. The scammers’ accomplice said that he transferred the money stolen by deception to accounts dictated by his curators, and received 5% of the amount for participating in the fraudulent scheme. He spent almost all the proceeds from crime on rent, shopping and entertainment.
A criminal case has been initiated against the detainee under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud”), he faces up to 10 years in prison. The defendant was taken into custody.
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