In Tula postponed the trial of the courier of fraudsters who robbed pensioners

The proletarian district court of Tula postponed to November 12 the criminal case against a resident of Nizhny Tagil, who is accused of embezzling 2.5 million rubles from pensioners. According to the investigation, the man worked as a courier in a criminal group and took money from elderly people under the pretext of their “declaration”, more information about this “MK in Tula” was told in the joint press service of the courts and the USD region.

According to the preliminary investigation, from November to December 2025, the accused traveled to the Sverdlovsk, Tula and Moscow regions and received money from defrauded pensioners. Some of the stolen funds he kept as a reward. The total damage from his actions was estimated at 2.5 million rubles.

The man was charged with three counts of fraud on an especially large scale. He was taken into custody during the investigation.

At the hearing on October 20, the court began to examine the evidence and announced the testimony of four victims and two prosecution witnesses. The next hearing is scheduled for November 12, 2026, at 11:00. It will be held in the Proletarian District Court of Tula on 162a Marata Street.

Earlier, MK in Tula reported about an 80-year-old resident of Tula, who transferred more than 4 million rubles to fraudsters after a call about alleged involvement in the financing of terrorism. Unknown people convinced the pensioner that she was in the field of view of law enforcement. As a result, the woman gave a stranger at his house 4 million 62 thousand rubles. After the incident, the police opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale.