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The Inter-district Criminal Court of Astana has sentenced 37-year-old Kairat M. to 5 years in a medium security penal colony for aiding and abetting fraud. He was part of the scheme of a swindler, according to which he lured over 30 million tenge from a pensioner and a schoolgirl.
According to the case file, in the summer of 2023, unemployed Kairat M. got a job as a courier to an unidentified person under the nickname "Beneficiary"via Telegram. His job was to meet packages of money, keep 10% of the amount for himself, and transfer the rest to his boss through various couriers or send it to the accounts provided by them. He exchanged some of the money for cryptocurrency and sent it to an unknown crypto wallet.
Two victims have been identified in the case.
I was raising money for funerals
An 84-year-old pensioner suffered at the hands of a fraudster. The woman said that on the afternoon of June 29, 2023, her home phone was called. Picking up the phone, she heard the tearful voice of her daughter, who said that she allegedly had an accident, a person was injured, and she urgently needed 6 million tenge to resolve the issue. The woman did not have such a sum, and she agreed to transfer 1.2 million tenge, which she saved for her funeral. A woman up to 72 years old worked as a nurse and collected this money for a long time.
Then a false policeman contacted her and instructed her what to do. I had to put a change of clothes and bed linen in my bag, and wrap the money in a T-shirt. She handed the bag she had packed to a guy she didn't know. And only in the evening I found out that I was a victim of fraudsters.
Scared the kid
On June 30, 2023, a call was made to the apartment where a Moscow businesswoman and her family live. The phone call was answered by her 12-year-old daughter, whose aunt was asleep at the time. The stranger introduced himself as a medical professional and said that the teenager's mother was taken to the hospital after an accident.
Then the phone was picked up allegedly by a police officer, who said that all the money that is at home is required. The girl was unable to contact her mother because her phone was disconnected. Fearing for her mother, she found $ 80,000 at home and delivered it via courier. When the parents returned home, the daughter kept silent about what had happened and told about everything only the next day.
Court verdict
The couriers who collected closed packages of money from the victims identified Kairat M. as the person to whom they delivered the packages.
Kairat M. was found guilty of receiving money from the victims couriers and keeping part of the stolen goods for himself, and sending the rest to other persons. The defendant in his defense stated that he worked only as a delivery man and did not know about the origin of this money. But the judge did not accept such arguments.
"Each time receiving money from the victims, Kairat M. kept 10% of each amount received from the victims, which in itself could not but arouse the defendant's suspicions about the criminal origin of the money," the verdict No. 7141-23-00-1/1450 of January 8 says.
He was sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to return a total of 34.7 million tenge to the victims.
The convict filed an appeal, in which he asked to change the type of institution for serving his sentence to a colony-settlement, where he could get a job and compensate victims for damages. But on February 21, 2024, the city court upheld the verdict.
According to the case file, in the summer of 2023, unemployed Kairat M. got a job as a courier to an unidentified person under the nickname "Beneficiary"via Telegram. His job was to meet packages of money, keep 10% of the amount for himself, and transfer the rest to his boss through various couriers or send it to the accounts provided by them. He exchanged some of the money for cryptocurrency and sent it to an unknown crypto wallet.
Two victims have been identified in the case.
I was raising money for funerals
An 84-year-old pensioner suffered at the hands of a fraudster. The woman said that on the afternoon of June 29, 2023, her home phone was called. Picking up the phone, she heard the tearful voice of her daughter, who said that she allegedly had an accident, a person was injured, and she urgently needed 6 million tenge to resolve the issue. The woman did not have such a sum, and she agreed to transfer 1.2 million tenge, which she saved for her funeral. A woman up to 72 years old worked as a nurse and collected this money for a long time.
Then a false policeman contacted her and instructed her what to do. I had to put a change of clothes and bed linen in my bag, and wrap the money in a T-shirt. She handed the bag she had packed to a guy she didn't know. And only in the evening I found out that I was a victim of fraudsters.
Scared the kid
On June 30, 2023, a call was made to the apartment where a Moscow businesswoman and her family live. The phone call was answered by her 12-year-old daughter, whose aunt was asleep at the time. The stranger introduced himself as a medical professional and said that the teenager's mother was taken to the hospital after an accident.
Then the phone was picked up allegedly by a police officer, who said that all the money that is at home is required. The girl was unable to contact her mother because her phone was disconnected. Fearing for her mother, she found $ 80,000 at home and delivered it via courier. When the parents returned home, the daughter kept silent about what had happened and told about everything only the next day.
Court verdict
The couriers who collected closed packages of money from the victims identified Kairat M. as the person to whom they delivered the packages.
Kairat M. was found guilty of receiving money from the victims couriers and keeping part of the stolen goods for himself, and sending the rest to other persons. The defendant in his defense stated that he worked only as a delivery man and did not know about the origin of this money. But the judge did not accept such arguments.
"Each time receiving money from the victims, Kairat M. kept 10% of each amount received from the victims, which in itself could not but arouse the defendant's suspicions about the criminal origin of the money," the verdict No. 7141-23-00-1/1450 of January 8 says.
He was sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to return a total of 34.7 million tenge to the victims.
The convict filed an appeal, in which he asked to change the type of institution for serving his sentence to a colony-settlement, where he could get a job and compensate victims for damages. But on February 21, 2024, the city court upheld the verdict.
