The recidivist from a pre-trial detention center in Zhytomyr region deceived Ukrainians for more than half a million hryvnias

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It is established that more than 30 residents of different regions of Ukraine suffered from the actions of the 32-year-old convict. While in the pre-trial detention center, he called from his own mobile phone, fraudulently obtaining confidential information from citizens to access their accounts, or encouraged the interlocutors to make money transfers in mobile banking.

Investigators of the investigation department of the State Police in the Zhytomyr region found out that a 32-year-old resident of the Kiev region had previously been repeatedly convicted. The last time - in February 2023 - for causing intentional grievous bodily harm, and is now in a pre-trial detention center of one of the correctional institutions in Zhytomyr region.

While already serving his sentence, he started a new illegal activity. To do this, the man called residents of different regions of Ukraine and called himself a bank employee. He informed subscribers that their accounts received payments from the service of a financial institution, and to receive funds, it was allegedly necessary to perform certain actions in the banking mobile application.

Trusting interlocutors followed the instructions given to them by the "bank manager", and as a result lost their own funds. In some places, the number of financial transactions performed by one victim under "fraudulent support" reached ten.

In a number of other cases, the man lured citizens out of information about their bank card numbers and pin codes, and then independently made transfers in his own favor.

The losses caused to the victims range from 900 to almost 115,000 hryvnias. And the total amount that the prisoner lured out is more than 503 thousand hryvnias.

In February 2024, the police, with the assistance of employees of the operational unit of the institution, stopped the criminal activity of a man. Investigators, accompanied by operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Regional State Penitentiary Service, conducted a search in the room where the convict was being held. As a result, they seized a means of communication, SIM cards of mobile operators, and draft records.

In addition, at the request of the investigators, the money in the bank accounts used by the suspect was seized in order to ensure compensation for the damage caused to the victims.

Therefore, having collected the necessary evidence and testimonies, having received the results of forensic examinations, the investigators charged the man with taking possession of someone else's property by deception (fraud), committed repeatedly, through illegal operations using electronic computing equipment (Part 2, Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Procedural guidance was provided by the Zhytomyr Regional Prosecutor's Office. Now the materials have been sent to the court.

In accordance with the current legislation, the accused faces a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to eight years.

• Source: https://zt.npu.gov.ua/news/oshukav-...yrshchyni-politsiia-zavershyla-rozsliduvannia
 
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