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In the course of operational-search activities, officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kherson region identified the organizer of the group of Internet fraudsters and two of his accomplices. More than 40 residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the Donetsk People's Republic, became victims of the attackers.
As it turned out, all the victims responded in the messenger to ads for the sale of household appliances, spare parts for cars and motorcycles, furniture and building materials. Before sending the goods, sellers asked citizens to pay for the purchase in full and transfer money to the specified bank card details. However, after that, the correspondence was deleted, and buyers were blocked.
Operatives found that one of the participants in the scam lives in the Krasnodar Territory, and the second is a resident of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region. Both were detained by law enforcement officers. They acted on the instructions of the 29-year-old leader of the group, who, according to the police, went abroad in 2023.
According to the police, the attackers placed ads in 60 different channels, using someone else's credentials. Payment for non-existent goods was received on the bank cards of residents of the Kakhovka district, who were looking for one of the accomplices. After that, the funds were transferred to accounts controlled by a resident of the Kuban, and he, in turn, sent the finances to the organizer of the criminal activity.
In relation to the suspects, the investigator of the investigative unit of the Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kherson region initiated criminal cases under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
More than one and a half million rubles were seized from the two detained accomplices, as well as foreign currency in the amount equivalent to more than one million rubles. At the request of the investigation, one of the defendants was chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention, the second - a measure of procedural coercion in the form of an obligation to appear.
Currently, operational-search measures and investigative actions are being carried out to establish all episodes of illegal activities and possible other participants, as well as measures to detain the organizer of the group.
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As it turned out, all the victims responded in the messenger to ads for the sale of household appliances, spare parts for cars and motorcycles, furniture and building materials. Before sending the goods, sellers asked citizens to pay for the purchase in full and transfer money to the specified bank card details. However, after that, the correspondence was deleted, and buyers were blocked.
Operatives found that one of the participants in the scam lives in the Krasnodar Territory, and the second is a resident of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region. Both were detained by law enforcement officers. They acted on the instructions of the 29-year-old leader of the group, who, according to the police, went abroad in 2023.
According to the police, the attackers placed ads in 60 different channels, using someone else's credentials. Payment for non-existent goods was received on the bank cards of residents of the Kakhovka district, who were looking for one of the accomplices. After that, the funds were transferred to accounts controlled by a resident of the Kuban, and he, in turn, sent the finances to the organizer of the criminal activity.
In relation to the suspects, the investigator of the investigative unit of the Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kherson region initiated criminal cases under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
More than one and a half million rubles were seized from the two detained accomplices, as well as foreign currency in the amount equivalent to more than one million rubles. At the request of the investigation, one of the defendants was chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention, the second - a measure of procedural coercion in the form of an obligation to appear.
Currently, operational-search measures and investigative actions are being carried out to establish all episodes of illegal activities and possible other participants, as well as measures to detain the organizer of the group.
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