CrimeaPRESS reports:
Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea, together with colleagues from the Feodosia police department, stopped the illegal activities of young people who arrived in Crimea from the Krasnodar Territory.
Two local residents, aged 78 and 88, who became victims of scammers, contacted the Feodosia police. Unknown people called their landline phones and told the pensioners that their relatives had been in an accident. To provide assistance to the victims, as well as to avoid criminal liability on the part of their guilty relatives, they asked to collect money and transfer it to the courier. Without double-checking the information, the citizens agreed to the scammers’ conditions and transferred funds in a total amount of more than 300 thousand rubles— reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.
As a result of operational search activities, the police identified the suspects — previously unconvicted 19-year-old residents of Sochi, who played the role of couriers in the fraudulent scheme “Your relative got into an accident.” Young people were detained in Feodosia in a rented apartment.
One of the guys found a “part-time job” on the Internet and invited his friend to go to Crimea, to which the latter agreed. It was established that one of the detainees was involved in committing fraud in the city of Kerch, where he took possession of funds received from an 86-year-old local resident in the amount of 210 thousand rublesthe police said.
Investigators of the Department of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Feodosia and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Kerch have opened criminal cases against the suspects on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).
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