Law enforcement officers exposed the scammers who worked according to the “your relative is in captivity and I can help” scheme, embezzling the money of Ukrainians who are looking for their relatives and friends.
According to the National Police, one of the attackers is a man convicted of property crimes while he is serving his sentence in a penal colony in Odessa.
The attackers, using information from open sources about the search for missing people in the zone of active hostilities, demanded funds from their relatives, promising to help in their release from captivity. “Services” was estimated at 10 thousand hryvnia.
Relatives of the missing were told about the severe injuries and the critical condition of the prisoners. People agreed to the terms of the attackers and transferred money to their bank card.
“Operators of the Strategic Investigation Department in Kyiv and investigators of the Solomensky Police Department conducted a search at the location of one of the defendants. They confiscated a mobile phone with a SIM card, from which calls were received to the victims, and “black” records. The whereabouts of his accomplice are being investigated by the police.- the message says.
The attacker, who is in places of deprivation of liberty, was informed of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. A circle of persons is established who may also be involved in the crime.
Earlier, law enforcement officers exposed another group of swindlers - they profited from people who tried to receive material assistance from the EU countries. Fraudsters have created a number of fake web resources that imitate the official government websites of Ukraine and the European Union in their external design. The swindlers stole about 100 million hryvnias from people who went to the resources and left their data there.
And in Dnipro, a group of scammers was exposed who collected funds from entrepreneurs under the pretext of material support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in six months they embezzled about a million hryvnias.
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Source: Fakty
