The scammers «took» 275 thousand rubles from Kerchka-pensionaries. The police returned

The victim told the operatives that in the morning unknown people called her and began to demand money, because her daughter allegedly got into an accident. The pensioner’s misleading gathered her savings and handed them to her to her. During the operational-search measures in just a few hours, operatives of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea, together with colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Kerch, detained an accomplice of telephone swindlers in Simferopol. She turned out to be an unemployed 33-year-old local resident. During a personal inspection, the police found and seized the money stolen from the 79-year-old grandmother in full. The attacker did not have time to transfer them to her curator,-the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Republic of Crimea said.

Police officers returned her accumulation to the elderly woman.

Moreover, it turned out that the detainee was involved in a similar crime. On the eve, she took 160 thousand rubles from the tenants from the tenants from a deceived 74-year-old resident of the Krasnogvardeisky district of Crimea. Leaving a reward in the amount of 10 thousand rubles, she transferred the rest of the telephone scammers.

In relation to the suspect, criminal cases have been instituted under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendant was chosen a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest. The investigation is being conducted.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Crimea