Former postal employee in Kuchugury found guilty of stealing pensioners’ money

In the Temryuk district, a former employee of the post was found guilty of embezzling more than 730 thousand rubles. The woman appropriated pension payments, money for utilities and funds transferred to her for storage, the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory reported.

According to the investigation, in April 2026, Svetlana Volova, who worked as a postman in the village of Kuchuguri, appropriated 607 thousand rubles intended for delivery to pensioners and recipients of social payments. To hide the theft, she forged citizens’ signatures in payment documents and handed them over to the head of the post office.

In addition, the woman did not contribute to the cash register almost 49 thousand rubles received from residents to pay for utilities, follows from the materials of the case. It is noted that later she appropriated another 77 thousand rubles, which the head of the department transferred to her for safekeeping.

The theft was revealed by the security service of the FPS of the Krasnodar Territory during an internal inspection. The company fully compensated the victims of material damage. In court, Volova admitted guilt.

The court sentenced the former postal employee to 2 years and 8 months of suspended imprisonment with the same probationary period. It was also decided to recover 655 966.33 rubles in favor of Russian Post JSC in compensation for damages. The sentence has not yet entered into force.

Earlier we told how in the Novokuban district 28-year-old woman was suspected of embezzling more than 1.2 million rubles from the bank account of his grandmother. According to police, the granddaughter for several years transferred to himself pension and social benefits of a relative, using access to her banking application.

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