The Moscow (Minsk) District Department of the Investigative Committee has established the circumstances of fraud committed on a particularly large scale as part of an organized group.
As previously reported, on February 7 of this year, a 75-year-old Minsk resident agreed to "declare" her savings on the recommendations of false law enforcement agencies. Following the instructions of "competent" employees, she prepared family savings and threw the messenger out the window more than 760 thousand euros. However, the criminal intent of the scammers was not completed – in the shortest possible time, police officers detained a minor intermediary of telephone scammers.
Establishing the chronology of the incident, the investigators found out that the 16-year-old courier started his illegal journey in December last year. According to the classic scheme, a student found an ad for quick earnings in the Telegram messenger. The task is simple – to issue several bank payment cards for yourself, and then transfer all the details to the customer. The guy completed an easy task, for which he received 175 rubles from the "employers". Literally from this moment begins a kind of "career" growth of a teenager in the criminal hierarchy of telephone scammers.
Curators of the deceptive network were interested in the unquestioning diligence of the teenager, after which they decided to give him a chance to earn more. At the end of January, the guy was offered to pick up a parcel from Soligorsk for a fee, and then transfer it to the cryptocurrency operator. The fact that the package contains more than 10 thousand dollars was well known to the person involved. On the eve of convincing "guardians of the Law" persuaded a 44-year-old man and his mother to declare their income. Relatives did not suspect deception, as they kept in touch, in their opinion, with real law enforcement officers. Following the instructions, the victims cashed out their foreign currency accounts and handed over the money to the taxi driver, so that he would take the funds allegedly to the employees of the FIU for subsequent registration.
A week later, the young man received another order. This time it was a large sum that urgently needed to be "hidden" in the digital world. A trusted courier was instructed to pick up the money, and then transfer it to the cryptographer. On the evening of February 7, the student completed the task, but the scheduled meeting did not take place. Already from law enforcement officers, the person involved learned that instead of 160 thousand euros, which the curators told him about, the pensioner gave the fraudsters an amount almost five times more.
Throughout the investigation, the teenager gave consistent and consistent testimony. He actively cooperated with the investigation and helped to put all the episodes of his courier activities together. It is worth noting that the young man was characterized positively. The guy is brought up in a full family, studied well at the gymnasium and was engaged in cycling on a professional basis. Parents encouraged their son's good behavior and supported his desire for independence. However, none of the surrounding people suspected that the student was working for phone scammers.
Investigators conducted interrogations of the accused, victims and witnesses, studied the information stored on the defendant's mobile phone. The materials of the criminal case are attached to the recordings of video surveillance cameras and the conclusions of expert studies conducted by specialists of the SCSE.
The actions of the teenager are qualified under Part 4 of Article 209 (fraud committed by a re-organized group on a particularly large scale) and Part 1 of Article 222 (illegal dissemination of authentication data, through which it is possible to gain access to accounts) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. With the approval of the prosecutor, a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was applied to him.
The criminal case is currently pending in the Moskovsky District Court of Minsk.
Based on the results of the investigation, a submission was sent to the teenager's place of study to eliminate the identified causes and conditions that contributed to the commission of crimes.
As previously reported, on February 7 of this year, a 75-year-old Minsk resident agreed to "declare" her savings on the recommendations of false law enforcement agencies. Following the instructions of "competent" employees, she prepared family savings and threw the messenger out the window more than 760 thousand euros. However, the criminal intent of the scammers was not completed – in the shortest possible time, police officers detained a minor intermediary of telephone scammers.
Establishing the chronology of the incident, the investigators found out that the 16-year-old courier started his illegal journey in December last year. According to the classic scheme, a student found an ad for quick earnings in the Telegram messenger. The task is simple – to issue several bank payment cards for yourself, and then transfer all the details to the customer. The guy completed an easy task, for which he received 175 rubles from the "employers". Literally from this moment begins a kind of "career" growth of a teenager in the criminal hierarchy of telephone scammers.
Curators of the deceptive network were interested in the unquestioning diligence of the teenager, after which they decided to give him a chance to earn more. At the end of January, the guy was offered to pick up a parcel from Soligorsk for a fee, and then transfer it to the cryptocurrency operator. The fact that the package contains more than 10 thousand dollars was well known to the person involved. On the eve of convincing "guardians of the Law" persuaded a 44-year-old man and his mother to declare their income. Relatives did not suspect deception, as they kept in touch, in their opinion, with real law enforcement officers. Following the instructions, the victims cashed out their foreign currency accounts and handed over the money to the taxi driver, so that he would take the funds allegedly to the employees of the FIU for subsequent registration.
A week later, the young man received another order. This time it was a large sum that urgently needed to be "hidden" in the digital world. A trusted courier was instructed to pick up the money, and then transfer it to the cryptographer. On the evening of February 7, the student completed the task, but the scheduled meeting did not take place. Already from law enforcement officers, the person involved learned that instead of 160 thousand euros, which the curators told him about, the pensioner gave the fraudsters an amount almost five times more.
Throughout the investigation, the teenager gave consistent and consistent testimony. He actively cooperated with the investigation and helped to put all the episodes of his courier activities together. It is worth noting that the young man was characterized positively. The guy is brought up in a full family, studied well at the gymnasium and was engaged in cycling on a professional basis. Parents encouraged their son's good behavior and supported his desire for independence. However, none of the surrounding people suspected that the student was working for phone scammers.
Investigators conducted interrogations of the accused, victims and witnesses, studied the information stored on the defendant's mobile phone. The materials of the criminal case are attached to the recordings of video surveillance cameras and the conclusions of expert studies conducted by specialists of the SCSE.
The actions of the teenager are qualified under Part 4 of Article 209 (fraud committed by a re-organized group on a particularly large scale) and Part 1 of Article 222 (illegal dissemination of authentication data, through which it is possible to gain access to accounts) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. With the approval of the prosecutor, a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was applied to him.
The criminal case is currently pending in the Moskovsky District Court of Minsk.
Based on the results of the investigation, a submission was sent to the teenager's place of study to eliminate the identified causes and conditions that contributed to the commission of crimes.
