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The investigation of the Kovylkinsky MMO of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has completed the investigation of criminal cases against a 26-year-old resident of the Novosibirsk Region, accused of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud committed with causing significant damage to a citizen by an organized group", and a 27-year-old resident of the Sverdlovsk region, accused of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud committed with causing significant damage to a citizen by an organized group". Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Attempted fraud committed with causing significant damage to a citizen by an organized group".

The criminal activity of these individuals was stopped during operational search activities by the criminal Investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Kovylkinsky".

As part of the preliminary investigation, it was established that the accused found information about the possibility of additional earnings remotely in Internet chats. After contacting unknown people via messenger, they agreed to look for citizens willing to provide their bank cards for a certain fee, allegedly under the pretext of carrying out legal activities in the field of earning money on cryptocurrency. Information about the numbers and PIN codes of the defendants was provided under the control of unknown curators.

As it turned out, the accused were involved in a criminal scheme that was based on the receipt of money by the leaders of an organized group, the criminal case against which is allocated in separate proceedings, from citizens fraudulently. So, as a result of the criminal actions of the defendants, two residents of the Kovylkinsky district were injured. One of them transferred 38,800 rubles to the account provided by fraudsters as an advance payment for the purchase of edged boards. The victim found false information about the sale of goods on the site of free ads. The second victim, being sure that he was acting in his personal interests, believed the unknown people, took out a loan in the amount of 1.5 million rubles and transferred several payments to the specified bank cards. All funds were transferred to accounts linked to payment cards and cashed out by fraudsters.

Residents of the Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk regions fully admitted their guilt. Materials of criminal cases were sent to the court for consideration on the merits.

Currently, the defendants are in a pre-trial detention center for committing, among other things, similar crimes.

 

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The evidence collected by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Ruzaevsky district was sufficient to convict a 22-year-old resident of the village of Lukhovka, who was found guilty of committing crimes under Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud".

In December last year, the police received a statement from a 67-year-old woman. The victim informed the police that she had been subjected to fraudulent actions under the pretext of helping a loved one who had been involved in a traffic accident.

The pensioner's phone received a call from an unknown number. The interlocutor said that the applicant's daughter-in-law was in trouble, and therefore offered to urgently transfer money in the amount of 500,000 rubles to resolve the problems. On the same day, an accomplice of the attackers arrived at the pensioner's house, and money was transferred in the previously agreed amount.

Thanks to the well-coordinated operational work of the criminal investigation department for the Ruzaevsky district and the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mordovia, the person who took the money was identified as soon as possible. The young man was detained.

In an interview with police representatives, the defendant spoke in detail about how he found an ad about possible earnings on the channel of one of the popular instant messengers. Further, he received instructions to arrive at a specific address to receive a money parcel. Having committed illegal actions, the attacker transferred most of the money received to the specified banking details, leaving 10% of the amount to himself as earnings, which, later, he lost in the online casino.

In addition, during the investigation, it became known that the convicted person had committed a similar crime several days earlier. The victim gave him 100,000 rubles, of which he kept 10 thousand.

The court sentenced him to 2 years and 6 months of forced labor with a deduction of 15% from the convicted person's salary to the state income.

 

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In Yekaterinburg, a court issued a guilty verdict to a 21-year-old local resident accused of fraud against pensioners under the scheme "A relative got into an accident".

Operational support in this criminal case was provided by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Yekaterinburg.

A criminal case was initiated, investigated and sent to the court on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud".

The court sentenced the defendant to 6 years of imprisonment to be served in a general regime penal colony. The verdict has not entered into legal force. The materials of the criminal case against unidentified accomplices are separated into separate proceedings.

As the young man explained, in April 2023, he was offered to participate in a scheme to take money from pensioners through social networks by certain "employers", to whom he transferred the main part of the stolen goods. Then the defendant came to the place of residence of senior citizens, took money from them, and then, on the instructions of the "curators", deposited the principal amount to special bank accounts, leaving only a small percentage of criminal proceeds.

In total, as a result of the criminal activity of the attacker, 11 pensioners suffered material damage in the amount of about 4 million rubles.

Speaking about how he began to engage in illegal activities, the convict explained that his elderly relative also became a victim of a similar fraud, after which he decided to try himself in the criminal business.

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In Kudymkar, the court issued a verdict against an 18-year-old local resident. He was found guilty of committing two crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud".

In January of this year, the duty station of the inter-municipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Kudymkarsky" received a statement from a local resident that her 73-year-old mother was a victim of fraud. In the evening, a woman called an elderly citizen on a landline phone, introduced herself as a niece from Yekaterinburg and said that she was the culprit of a traffic accident. Then a false police officer picked up the phone and convinced the pensioner to transfer money through an intermediary to help the relative avoid criminal liability. Believing the scammers, the elderly woman gave the young man who arrived to her savings in the amount of more than 130 thousand rubles. Only after that, the pensioner found out that her niece did not call her and did not need help.

Similarly, fraudsters deceived a 70-year-old citizen. An agitated woman called her landline and introduced herself as her daughter, who lives in Perm. The interlocutor reported that she was the culprit of the accident. Then a stranger entered the conversation and introduced herself as an investigator. She asked the elderly woman to send money through a courier to resolve the issue of not bringing her daughter to criminal responsibility and write various statements under dictation. At the same time, the pensioner was told not to hang up the phone and stay in touch all the time. Following the instructions of strangers, the victim, without checking the information, collected the available funds in the amount of 250 thousand rubles and gave them to the stranger who came. Later, she realized that this was a hoax.

During the search activities, officers of the patrol and post service of the police detained a courier who came for cash. The young man said that he found a part-time job on the Internet. He had to follow the instructions of the curator, come to the addresses indicated by him and collect the money. He transferred cash to the employer's account, leaving himself a certain percentage of the amount as a reward.

During the arrest, part of the stolen funds in the amount of 250 thousand rubles were withdrawn from the attacker and returned to one of the victims.

The court on the totality of crimes imposed a penalty of 3 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a general regime penal colony and ordered to compensate the remaining amount of damage caused by the crime.

 

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The Brest city Prosecutor's Office supported the state prosecution in a criminal case against a 23-year-old resident of the Brest district-he was charged with large-scale fraud and attempted fraud on a particularly large scale, committed by a group of individuals.

It is established that the accused and other persons, acting by prior agreement, on February 10, 2024, took possession of funds in US dollars and Belarusian rubles, as well as bedding belonging to an elderly woman, in the total amount of 38.9 thousand rubles under the pretext of providing assistance to her daughter, who allegedly committed an accident.

In addition, on the same day, the accused tried to steal 15 thousand US dollars in a similar way from another elderly resident of Brest, but could not complete his criminal intent, because the victim's neighbor suspected deception. After that, the accused disappeared.

In the criminal group, the person involved played the role of a "courier", he kept some of the stolen funds in the amount of 880 rubles, and transferred the rest to a "curator" in Minsk.

Taking into account the evidence presented by the State prosecutor, the Moskovsky District Court of Brest issued a guilty verdict. According to the aggregate of crimes provided for in Part 3 of Article 209, Part 1 of Article 14, Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, he was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment to be served in a high-security penal colony with a fine of 50 basic units (2 thousand rubles).

Property damage caused by the crime was recovered from the accused in favor of the victim. In addition, a mobile phone belonging to him was confiscated to the State as a means of committing a crime.

The verdict came into legal force.

 

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Zheleznogorsk City Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory issued a guilty verdict to a previously convicted 25-year-old resident of the Balakhtinsky district, who was found guilty of aiding remote fraudsters and robbing a jewelry salon.

We reported on the detention of an attacker who, on the instructions of telephone scammers, took 300 thousand rubles from a pensioner who was deceived by them, and also committed open theft of three gold chains from a store in January of this year.

The investigation of criminal cases initiated on the grounds of crimes under Part 1 of Article 161 and Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was carried out by employees of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Zheleznogorsk.

During the preliminary investigation, it was established that the young man, acting on the instructions of the curator, in the messenger received the address of an elderly resident of Zheleznogorsk, who was previously called by remote scammers. Under the pretext that the pensioner's niece allegedly hit a pedestrian, and a large amount of money was needed to pay for his treatment, the courier took the victim's savings, but contrary to the conditions of the scammers, he did not transfer the stolen cash to his accomplices, but spent it on personal needs.

In addition, the police found out that the person involved was involved in the open theft of property from a jewelry store that occurred in January last year. Then the suspect went to a retail outlet and asked to show him three gold chains with a total value of 160 thousand rubles. While looking at the offered jewelry, he suddenly grabbed it and snatched it out of the seller's hands, after which he disappeared with the stolen item. At the request of the investigator, the person involved was given a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody.

Having considered the materials of the criminal case, the Zheleznogorsk City Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory found the man guilty of the incriminated acts and sentenced him to imprisonment for a period of 5 years with serving in a correctional colony of general regime. The court also granted civil claims of the victims for compensation for material damage. The verdict came into legal force.

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The Central District Court of Kemerovo issued a verdict on a criminal case initiated against a 20-year-old local resident who had previously been convicted several times, including for fraud. He was charged with committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud".

In January of last year, an 81-year-old city resident turned to the duty station of the Tsentralny police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Kemerovo for help. The pensioner reported that she was deceived by scammers. The amount of damage caused was about 380,000 rubles.

The police found out that the elderly woman was called by a stranger who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer. He convinced his victim that a relative of the pensioner was involved in an accident, and therefore urgently needed money for treatment. The fraudster asked to transfer the cash to the courier. The victim followed the instructions of the attacker, and later learned that the story about a car accident involving a loved one is fictional.

Employees of the criminal investigation department conducted a complex of operational search activities, during which they identified and detained the courier who stole money from the Kemerovo woman. He became a defendant in a criminal case.

The investigation and the court found that the recidivist found the offer of illegal earnings on the Internet. As a reward for participating in the criminal scheme, he kept 50,000 rubles from the amount of money stolen from the pensioner.

After collecting the evidence base, the criminal case was sent to the court for consideration. The defendant was found guilty and, taking into account his previous criminal record for a similar crime, was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in prison. He will serve his sentence in a high-security penal colony.

In addition, the offender is obliged to compensate the victim for the damage caused.

 

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The evidence collected by the investigative unit of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mordovia turned out to be sufficient for sentencing 19-year-old and 22-year-old residents of Ruzaevka, who were found guilty of committing 10 crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud committed by an organized group" and Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Attempted fraud".

In the autumn of last year, the police received a report from two residents of the Chamzinsky district about fraud committed against them.

Deception schemes in all cases were based on reporting relatives who were involved in a road accident. One of the victims, a 73-year-old woman, was told by phone about the situation with her daughter-in-law, who needed immediate financial assistance. The second deceived, 84-year-old pensioner, the attackers called twice. Posing as employees of the investigative bodies, they demanded money under the pretext of not bringing the pensioner's niece to criminal responsibility, and under the guise of employees of an insurance company, they told a story about the need for urgent paid medical care for the aforementioned relative. In a state of excitement, the elderly women let their guard down and quickly agreed to hand over their personal savings via courier. In total, the victims transferred the amount of 1 million 90 thousand rubles to fraudsters.

During the operational search activities, the identity of the couriers involved in the transfer of money was established as soon as possible. They were two residents of Ruzaevka. Another 300 thousand rubles were intended to be collected by a courier from Nizhny Novgorod, caught in the act. The criminal case against him is already being considered in court.

Each of them was detained during the duty day after the police received a message. It turned out that they received an offer for a part-time job in a dating app. During the preliminary investigation, the involvement of the detainees in similar acts committed on the territory of Bolshebereznikovsky and Kadoshkinsky districts, as well as the Penza region, was established. In total, the victims of scammers were nine people who gave them more than 3 million rubles.

The court sentenced one of the defendants to 7 years, 6 months and 20 days in prison, and his accomplice to 3 years and 6 months in prison. The convicts will serve their sentences in a general regime penal colony.

 

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In Solikamsk, a 23-year-old local resident was sentenced. He was found guilty of committing 7 crimes under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the young man had already come into the field of vision of operatives and was tried for theft and theft.

During the investigation, it was established that after being released from prison in the summer of last year, the accused lived on temporary earnings. Scrolling through the news feed on the Internet, he found an offer that interested him. The author of the post suggested "getting into a serious team that has a professionally established scheme." So the young man became part of an organized group, whose members adhered to the scheme of deception "Your relative is in trouble." They called residents of the Solikamsk city district, misleading them about the guilt of their relatives in the accident and the need to transfer money to resolve problems with the law.

For two days, the culprit went to the addresses of senior citizens and took money. It is established that the courier visited seven Solikamsk residents, who gave him a total of more than 1.5 million rubles. He kept some of the money for himself, and transferred some of it to the curators accounts.

The court sentenced the guilty person to 12 years in prison. He will serve it in a high-security penal colony. He must compensate the injured citizens for the material damage caused. The verdict has not entered into legal force.

 

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Collected by the investigative department of PP No. 13 (for servicing the Kochkurovsky district) The evidence was sufficient to pass a sentence against an 18-year-old resident of the Romodanovsky district, who was found guilty of committing a crime under Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud".

On March 21, with a difference of several hours, three pensioners from Kochkurovsky district and Saransk, aged from 74 to 89 years, who suffered from the actions of fraudsters under the scheme "Your relative got into an accident", applied to the internal affairs bodies. The total amount of damage caused was 788 thousand rubles.

As a result of the ongoing activities, employees of the Criminal Investigation Department detained a person involved in fraud. According to the young man, he found an ad about working as a courier on the Internet. On the day of the crime, he received messages from the curator with addresses where he had to come for money. The defendant called a friend with him, without saying what exactly he takes money from pensioners for. After receiving the cash, the young people went to a fast food cafe, where they recalculated the entire amount. Then the person involved transferred funds through an ATM to the dictated accounts, leaving himself 5% as earnings.

The next day, a local resident again came to the same shawarma shop, where he was detained by police officers.

During the trial, two criminal cases were dismissed in connection with the reconciliation of the parties. The defendant fully compensated for the damage caused. The court sentenced him to 2 years of suspended imprisonment.

 

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A 19-year-old resident of the Irkutsk region, who worked in Novokuznetsk on a shift basis, found an ad in the social network about part-time work as a courier. He passed verification and immediately realized that he would become a member of a criminal scheme. However, he did not abandon the" startup "and began to" work "for scammers who deceived the elderly under the"relative in trouble" scheme. They called pensioners, introduced themselves as relatives and law enforcement officers, invented a legend about an accident in which a relative of the interlocutors allegedly got into, and asked for money for treatment or compensation for the victims. A courier was sent to the victims for cash.

His victim was a 78-year-old pensioner. Scammers scared her with the story that her granddaughter was involved in an accident. They requested 1.5 million rubles for "insurance coverage". The woman and her husband collected money that they had saved for several years, and gave everything to the courier.

Employees of the criminal investigation department identified and detained an accomplice of the scammers. He became a defendant in a criminal case, and the investigator collected evidence of his involvement in the crime.

After studying the submitted materials, the court found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to 3 years of imprisonment to be served in a general regime penal colony. In addition, he is obliged to fully compensate the damage caused to the victim in the amount of 1.5 million rubles. The convict's attempt to appeal against this decision was unsuccessful – the Kemerovo Regional Court left it unchanged.

 

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The evidence collected by the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Chamzinsky" was sufficient to convict 24 and 21-year-old couriers of telephone fraudsters from Togliatti, accused of committing crimes under Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud" and Part 3 of Article 30, Article 159 of the Criminal Code.

On November 24 last year, law enforcement agencies received a message from a 74-year-old resident of the village of Purkaevo. The woman said that she received a call from an unknown person who introduced himself as an investigator. Under the pretext of providing financial assistance for the treatment of her granddaughter, who allegedly got into an accident, he asked to transfer money in the amount of 900 thousand rubles. Knowing about such crimes, the vigilant citizen decided to interrupt the conversation and called the police.

In order to identify the persons involved in the crime, the investigators advised the elderly woman to follow the instructions of the attacker. As a result, she informed the latter that she was ready to transfer all available cash in the amount of 220 thousand rubles. Further actions were carried out under the supervision of police officers.

At the time of receiving the money, two young people who arrived at the home of an elderly woman were detained. At the same time, in the mobile phone of one of them, the police found messages with several other addresses. During the trial, the detainees explained that a few hours earlier they had committed a similar crime, stealing 100 thousand rubles from a resident of the village of Morga, a home front worker of the Great Patriotic War. At the same time, a 92-year-old woman learned about the deception from police officers. According to the victim, in the evening she received a call from a woman who introduced herself as her son's wife. The interviewee said that she became the culprit of the accident, having run over a child. After that, she handed the phone to the man who called her Mom. In order to resolve the issue of non-prosecution, it was required to pay cash in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. Believing the scammers, the victim handed over the cash to the young people who came to her.

As the 21-year-old defendant explained, he found an ad for additional earnings in the telegram channel. By agreement with the curator, he received a specific address, arriving at which he had to collect money, leaving himself 10% of the amount received. A few days before the incident, he received a message from the "employer" with instructions to go to Mordovia. At the same time, he was aware that he was an accomplice to the crime. The young man agreed and told his friend, who works as a taxi driver, about this, offering to go with him in the latter's car for an additional fee. After taking the money from the elderly woman, they went to another address, where they were detained by the police.

During the preliminary investigation, the involvement of the defendants in eight episodes of embezzlement of funds belonging to residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Chuvash Republic and the Republic of Mordovia was established. The total amount of damage caused was more than 1.5 million rubles.

The young people fully admitted their guilt in the crimes committed. A preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was taken against them.

Depending on the role of each of the defendants, one of the defendants was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a general regime penal colony, the accomplice of the crime was sentenced to 2 years of forced labor with a deduction of 10% of the salary.

 

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The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Gomel region established the circumstances of cynical deception of several Gomel pensioners who lost their long-term savings.

According to the investigation, in mid-February, three "guest performers" aged 37 to 42 years arrived in Gomel from a neighboring country. The men worked on the instructions of telephone scammers of a fraudulent call center specializing in taking possession of the money of gullible citizens.

A 55-year-old widow fell into the insidious trap of scammers. Late in the evening, a crying woman called her home phone, who imitated her daughter's emotional speech. She said that she had been in an accident and was in the hospital with another victim. The "relative" desperately asked to transfer a large amount of money for the operation. Then an "investigator" called the pensioner's mobile phone, who reported the initiation of a criminal case against his daughter. In great excitement from what she heard, the victim collected a bag with things and 10 thousand dollars for her, which she handed over to the courier.

Soon the "daughter" called again. The woman assured that she had agreed with her brother on the transfer of his savings. The upset mother took her son's money - 18,500 dollars and 15,500 euros - and handed it over to another courier. After another hysterical call from a "relative", she handed over another 10,500 euros to the scammers.

As couriers, the fraudsters used taxi drivers who were ignorant of the crime, who provided delivery services. The taxi driver routinely picked up the package and brought it to the customer's address. A parcel under the guise of "Uncle Vika", "Aunt Tanya's cousin" and other fictional characters was met by one of the "guest performers" who arrived in Gomel. The man took the luggage to the head of the group. The role of another defendant was to covertly observe the actions of the messenger. Part of the stolen money ended up with the defendants, the rest was transferred to the accounts of the curators.

In a similar way, scammers deceived four more residents of Gomel. To save her granddaughter, the 84-year-old grandmother donated 3000 rubles and 6000 dollars. An elderly married couple gave 3000 rubles and 3500 dollars to "close the case against their daughter". Another elderly couple donated 800 rubles and 7300 dollars for the treatment of the victim because of the daughter of the mythical driver.

Despite the conspiracy measures taken by the "guest performers", law enforcement officers promptly detained the criminal trio. The investigation collected evidence of the illegal activities of the defendants. Three foreigners were charged under Part 4 of Article 209 (fraud committed by an organized group, on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. A preventive measure in the form of detention was applied to the defendants.

 

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During the investigation, it was established that a 37-year-old visitor from Komsomolsk-on-Amur acted as a courier for unidentified persons who called elderly people under the guise of close relatives and asked to transfer large sums of money to them, allegedly to solve unexpected problems. The defendant had to, observing conspiracy measures, take cash and transfer it to the details specified by the accomplices. For his services, he received a certain percentage of each transfer.

So, from an 83-year-old resident of the Zheleznodorozhny district, the defendant stole about one million rubles. Scammers called a townswoman under the guise of a granddaughter, who allegedly got into a road accident. According to the scammers, the money is urgently needed to pay off the damage to the injured party.

850 thousand rubles were handed over to the courier by an 86-year-old citizen living in the Industrial District. The man also believed in the story of his granddaughter who got into an accident.

Officers of the department for the detection of crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies, the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Khabarovsk detained the attacker at the address of his temporary residence in Khabarovsk. The man unofficially worked as a handyman in a management company.

The attacker explained that he spent the money received as payment for participating in fraudulent schemes on bets in online casinos.

As part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated on the grounds of crimes under para. 2, 3 and 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud", the defendant's involvement in four unlawful episodes was established. The total damage caused to the victims amounted to about two million 500 thousand rubles.

For the period of the investigation, the attacker was in custody by court decision.

The court sentenced the man to imprisonment for a term of four years in a general regime colony.

In addition, the defendant is obliged to pay the victims the full amount of the damage caused.

 

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The evidence collected by the investigative department of OP No 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Saransk turned out to be sufficient to sentence a 35-year-old resident of the Oryol region, found guilty of committing nine episodes of crimes under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud". On June 8 last year, the police received a message from a resident of Saransk about the theft of 300 thousand rubles from her 84-year-old mother-in-law. In the morning, an unknown person called her on her mobile phone, introducing himself as a police officer. The interlocutor said that her daughter-in-law was involved in a traffic accident.

In order not to be prosecuted, as well as to purchase the necessary medicines, it was necessary to pay money.

At the direction of the interlocutor, she handed over the cash to a man, who after a while arrived at the private house of the pensioner.

In the course of the ongoing operational activities, officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Mordovia, together with operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Saransk, identified a person possibly involved in the commission of the crime, as well as the car in which the man was moving.

As part of further work, it was established that after the theft of funds, the specified person transferred a large amount of money through the terminal.

As a result, the attacker, who lives in the Oryol region, was detained in one of the hostels in Saransk, where he was staying. According to the defendant, he came to Mordovia in order to steal money from elderly citizens at the direction of curators offering earnings on the Internet.

Subsequently, his involvement in similar crimes committed in the Penza, Saratov, Bryansk and Oryol regions was established.

In total, nine pensioners suffered from the actions of the attacker. The total amount of damage caused amounted to 1 million 580 thousand rubles. The court sentenced him to 3 years in prison with serving in a general regime penal colony.

 

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The Baranavichy Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office supported in court the state prosecution in a criminal case against a 26-year-old Minsk resident, who was charged with fraud as part of an organized group.

It was established that the accused found an ad for a part-time job on a social network. The "employer" instructed the young man to pick up the envelope from the victim for a fee. Arriving in Baranovichi, he received 3000 US dollars from the woman - some time before that, she was informed by phone of fictitious information about an accident, as a result of which a third party was allegedly injured, and a relative of the victim was the culprit of this incident.

By persuasion, the victim was persuaded to transfer money to resolve the issue of not bringing the granddaughter to criminal responsibility and paying for the treatment of the victim.

The accused, who acted as a courier, was detained by police officers immediately after the transfer of money.

It is noteworthy that the vigilance of the victim's neighbor helped to detain the attacker. The man unsuccessfully tried to call his neighbor for a long time, which aroused his suspicions. Unable to contact the woman, he reported this to the police. Law enforcement officers, having established that the conversation with the victim was conducted by a foreign subscriber, went to the pensioner's house, where they detained the courier.

Taking into account the evidence presented by the public prosecutor, the court of the Baranavichy district and the city of Baranavichy ruled a guilty verdict. On the basis of Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, the Minsk resident was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 4 years in a penal colony in conditions of enhanced regime with a fine of 70 basic units (2.8 thousand rubles).

The appeal of the accused against the severity of the punishment was dismissed by the judicial board for criminal cases of the Brest Regional Court.

On the basis of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Amnesty in Connection with the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Belarus from the Nazi Invaders", the accused was partially released from the imposed punishment - for a period of one year.

 

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The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has completed the investigation of a criminal case against a 22-year-old local resident accused of illegal circulation of means of payment. The fact of his illegal activities was revealed by employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sakhalin Region in July this year.

It was established that some time ago, an unknown person contacted the defendant in a messenger and offered to open a bank account in his name for a monetary reward, and then transfer this data to third parties. The accused agreed to the stranger's proposal.

Having opened an account with the remote service system, the young man came at the appointed time to a pre-agreed place, where he left an envelope with a bank card and data on it between the branches in the tree, in return he took a bundle of cash in the amount of 6500 rubles.

Subsequently, it became known that the defendant's means of payment was used by unknown persons to carry out fraudulent actions. One of the victims, a resident of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, transferred more than 247 thousand rubles to him.

Investigators have collected an exhaustive database of evidence of the defendant's guilt. At present, the investigation of the criminal case initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has been completed. Together with the indictment, it was sent to the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court for consideration on the merits. The accused is waiting for the verdict of the court on his own recognizance not to leave and proper behavior.

Operatives and investigators continue to establish the circle of persons involved in the illegal act.

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In the Khabarovsk Territory, a 27-year-old resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur heard the verdict of the court. She was found guilty of committing two frauds worth more than 3 million rubles.

We reported on the capture of an accomplice of remote swindlers in October last year. Prior to the arrest, the woman took 2 million rubles from a 77-year-old resident of the Industrial District of the regional center, who had previously received a call from false law enforcement officers and the Central Bank, allegedly intended to be deposited into a "safe account". On the same day, the offender transferred the victim's savings to her "employers", receiving about 50 thousand rubles for her services.

Already under investigation, in November 2023, the defendant committed another similar crime in the same district of Khabarovsk. An 88-year-old pensioner, also thinking that she was saving her savings, gave a criminal courier, who introduced herself as a bank specialist, 1 million 100 thousand rubles.

It is noteworthy that earlier the defendant had already been prosecuted for similar illegal acts. For seven facts of providing courier services to fraudsters, she was sentenced to a suspended sentence by a court decision.

As part of the investigation of criminal cases initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the defendant confessed. At the time of the investigation, the citizen was under recognizance not to leave and proper behavior.

Having considered the materials of the criminal cases, the Industrial District Court of the city of Khabarovsk sentenced her to imprisonmentI am free for a period of seven years and six months.

 

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The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Uspensky District has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated against two residents of the Republic of Bashkortostan aged 18 and 19 on the grounds of a crime under part 3 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud".

According to the investigation, one of the defendants, acting in collusion with unidentified persons, looked for an acquaintance who registered as an individual entrepreneur for a monetary reward, opened a bank account and transferred its details to accomplices. One of the victims of the scammers was a pensioner from the village of Uspensky. The scammers convinced the woman to cash out her savings in the amount of 520 thousand rubles and credit them to a "safe account".

As a result of a set of operational-search and technical measures, officers of the CID of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Uspensky District detained the attackers as part of a business trip to the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Currently, the criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to court for consideration on the merits. The sanctions of the incriminated article provide for a maximum sentence of imprisonment for up to six years.

 

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At the end of May this year, a 91-year-old resident of the Zheleznodorozhny district turned to the police for help. The townswoman became a victim of telephone scammers.

As the investigation established, the pensioner received a call from a man who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer and said that her daughter had been in a serious road accident. Allegedly, the victim urgently needs surgery, which costs one million rubles. The applicant replied that she had only 300 thousand rubles of personal savings.

The caller asked to pack the cash in a towel and hand it over to a "reliable" person.

The role of the courier was played by the defendant. At the direction of unknown persons, he arrived by taxi at the address of the victim's residence, took a bundle with money, which he then transferred to telephone scammers. As payment, the attacker left 30 thousand rubles.

The accomplice of the fraudsters was detained by officers of the department for solving crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies, the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Khabarovsk.

The attacker is a fourth-year student at the university. At the time of the commission of the unlawful act, the 24-year-old defendant was on academic leave.

He explained that in one of the groups in the messenger he found an ad for earnings by providing courier services. The interlocutors immediately warned that the part-time job was associated with the commission of illegal actions. The defendant had to come to the addresses specified by the curators, pick up cash, which was then transferred through an ATM.

During the seizure, the police seized two mobile phones from the young man, which he used to communicate with his "employers".

During the investigation of the criminal case initiated by the investigative unit of the Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Khabarovsk on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud", the citizen confessed, fully repaid the damage caused to the victim.

At the time of the investigation and trial, a preventive measure was chosen against the attacker in the form of a ban on certain actions.

The court sentenced the Khabarovsk resident to imprisonment for a period of two years suspended with a probation period of two years.

 

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Earlier, the townswoman, who had been repeatedly prosecuted, became a participant in the criminal scheme "Your relative got into an accident".

At the end of January this year, the police detained a 27-year-old resident of Cheboksary, who played the role of a courier in the criminal scheme "Your relative got into an accident". The victim of the offender was a 69-year-old pensioner, who was informed in advance by phone that her niece had been in a road accident and urgently needed money for treatment. Believing it, the victim gave 139 thousand rubles to the offender who soon arrived at her apartment.

After the arrest, the convict admitted that she had found this way of earning money on the Internet. Of the amount received from the pensioner, she kept seven thousand rubles for herself, the rest she transferred to the accounts specified by the accomplices.

During the investigation of a criminal case initiated under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud", the convict pleaded guilty in full.

Having considered the materials of the criminal case, the judge of the Kalininsky District Court of the city of Cheboksary found the defendant guilty and sentenced her to imprisonment for a period of one year in a general regime colony. In addition, the convict is obliged to compensate for the material damage caused to the victim.

The court verdict has entered into force.

 

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Based on the materials of the criminal case, investigated by the investigator of the specialized department of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Krasnoyarskoye", the court convicted a resident of the regional center for a series of frauds.

During the investigation, it was found that from October 2021 to June 2022, victims living in Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk and Zheleznogorsk received a call from a bank employee who reported suspicious financial transactions in the personal account of citizens, as well as an attempt to apply for loans, and persuaded them to put money into a savings account. The victims, believing the callers, followed their instructions and transferred their savings and loans to "safe" accounts.

Further, a representative of the law enforcement agency contacted the citizens by phone, who reported on the initiation of a criminal case in connection with unauthorized transactions with the bank account of the victims. He noted that the victims would receive a summons to appear for interrogation. At the same time, the attackers warned their victims about the ban on disclosing information related to their participation in the "disclosure of a criminal scheme".

Later, the victims received a fake summons from an unknown man to be summoned for interrogation. Some found it in the mailbox.

During the operational activities, a false employee of the law enforcement agency, who delivered fictitious summonses, was detained by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the closed city of Zheleznogorsk. He turned out to be a previously unconvicted resident of the regional center born in 1986.

Investigators found that the attacker helped fraudsters deceive 21 victims. The amounts of transfers ranged from 300,000 to 4 million 350 thousand rubles. The total amount of damage amounted to almost 30 million rubles. For each summons delivered, the accused received from 1,000 to 7,000 rubles.

In relation to the attacker, police investigators initiated and investigated a criminal case under pch. 2, 3 and 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud", as well as Part 4 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Forgery, production or circulation of forged documents, state awards, stamps, seals or forms".

Having considered the materials of the criminal case, the Sovetsky District Court found the man guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment for a period of 6 years and 6 months in a general regime colony.