Director of the Kerch company appropriated 1.1 million rubles under the guise of booking hotels

The prosecutor’s office sent a criminal case to the Kerch City Court against a 51-year-old local resident accused of fraud and embezzlement of money. This was reported in the press service of the supervisory authority of the Crimea.

According to investigators, the accused headed a company that offered tourist services. From October 2025 to May 2026, she misled the residents of Kerch, promising to arrange for them to book and stay in foreign hotels, as well as pay for air tickets.

After trusting her, five people handed over the money, but never received the services. The actions of the woman are qualified under part 3 of article 159 of the criminal code (fraud) and part 3 of article 160 of the criminal code (appropriation of entrusted property). The case materials were transferred to the court for consideration on the merits.

Recall that in September 2026 in Yalta detained a former employee of the travel agency, which after dismissal opened an individual entrepreneur and, based on the accumulated client base, continued to offer travel services.

She showed customers a booking confirmation and then canceled tours, and the money returned for the cancellation went to her account. From the actions of the woman suffered 33 citizens, the total damage exceeded 8.7 million rubles.

In the same month, a 41-year-old local resident was detained in Sevastopol, who, after being dismissed from the travel agency, continued to issue vouchers, but was no longer going to provide them. She transferred clients’ money to her card, and when they began to demand explanations, she shifted responsibility to the tour operator and stopped communicating.

And in July 2026, experts warned that scammers create sites and pages in social networks, masquerading as travel agencies and visa centers, require full prepayment and scans of documents, and then disappear.