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While serving their sentences in prison in one of the correctional colonies in the Zhytomyr region, four men set up an illegal business. And the tools for their work were mobile phones. On January 5, police investigators announced that the defendants were suspected of fraud.
Such a “startup” was exposed by operatives of the regional Department of Strategic Investigations of the DDA NPU, employees of the Ukrainian State Security Service in the Zhytomyr region and the operational department of the correctional colony.
On October 17, investigators conducted a series of authorized searches, during which they seized mobile phones, cash, SIM cards, and rough notes.
Investigators from the Investigation Department of the Zhitomir Region State Police Department found that four prisoners aged from 27 to 35 years old deceived at least eight residents of different regions of Ukraine.
The defendants called and identified themselves as bank employees. They convinced their interlocutors to name the codes from the messages supposedly necessary to receive assistance from the UN. Thus, having received the confidential information necessary to carry out transactions, they transferred savings to other bank accounts. The victims lost from 500 to almost 25 thousand hryvnia.
As investigators established, the ill-gotten money was cashed by another person, who exchanged hryvnia for foreign currency and kept the savings at home. Law enforcement officers seized this money, so they are now establishing the man’s role in the illegal scheme.
On January 5, investigators informed four men of suspicion of committing fraud, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, through illegal transactions using electronic computer equipment (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The pre-trial investigation continues.
For such acts, the law provides for punishment of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Procedural management is carried out by the Zhytomyr Regional Prosecutor's Office.
Such a “startup” was exposed by operatives of the regional Department of Strategic Investigations of the DDA NPU, employees of the Ukrainian State Security Service in the Zhytomyr region and the operational department of the correctional colony.
On October 17, investigators conducted a series of authorized searches, during which they seized mobile phones, cash, SIM cards, and rough notes.
Investigators from the Investigation Department of the Zhitomir Region State Police Department found that four prisoners aged from 27 to 35 years old deceived at least eight residents of different regions of Ukraine.
The defendants called and identified themselves as bank employees. They convinced their interlocutors to name the codes from the messages supposedly necessary to receive assistance from the UN. Thus, having received the confidential information necessary to carry out transactions, they transferred savings to other bank accounts. The victims lost from 500 to almost 25 thousand hryvnia.
As investigators established, the ill-gotten money was cashed by another person, who exchanged hryvnia for foreign currency and kept the savings at home. Law enforcement officers seized this money, so they are now establishing the man’s role in the illegal scheme.
On January 5, investigators informed four men of suspicion of committing fraud, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, through illegal transactions using electronic computer equipment (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The pre-trial investigation continues.
For such acts, the law provides for punishment of up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Procedural management is carried out by the Zhytomyr Regional Prosecutor's Office.
