The coordinator of a group of online fraudsters is awaiting trial in St. Petersburg

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The investigator of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges of a 29-year-old man in committing 8 episodes of fraud totaling almost 11 million rubles.

According to the police, the attacker, who lived in Nizhny Novgorod at the time of his arrest, acted as a" treasurer "for telephone scammers who deceived citizens according to a common scheme with a"secure account". The man purchased bank and SIM cards, tracked the limits of many settlement accounts controlled by scammers, coordinated the actions of accomplices in where and what amounts to transfer, and also directly cashed out money through ATMs.

Illegal activities of the accused were stopped by employees of the UBK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region in September 2022. At the same time, during a search at the address of his residence, operatives found and seized more than 440 thousand rubles in cash, 37 mobile phones, 214 files with photocopies of passports for different persons, 189 SIM cards and 286 bank cards.

It is established that the victims of the attackers were two men and six women aged from 30 to 71 years. Four victims live in the Northern capital, one in the Leningrad region and three in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

At present, the materials of the criminal case initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with the approved indictment, have been sent to the Kuibyshev District Court of St. Petersburg for consideration on the merits. For the period of investigation, the person involved was given a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody.

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