The foreigner came to Minsk to take the money of the victims of scammers, but decided to deceive the fraudsters

A criminal case against a 36-year-old previously unconvicted foreigner who is accused of fraud committed on a large scale and as part of an organized group was sent to the court, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency in the prosecutor's office of the Soviet district told.

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Phone scammers called a resident of the capital and reported that there was a leak of his personal data and scammers are trying to get loans for him. To avoid trouble, they persuaded the man to issue loans himself, thereby “lowering his credit rating.”.

After the citizen received 36,600 BYN from one of the banks, the scammers told him to leave the money in an urn near the entrance of one of the residential buildings on the street. Gamarnica, which he did.

After a while, the resident of the capital still realized that he had joined the ranks of victims of telephone fraudsters, which he immediately reported to the police. Employees managed to detain a person who took money from the “cache” – they turned out to be a foreigner, who the day before came to Minsk on the instructions of curators.

It turned out that the defendant got a job as a courier for an announcement on the Internet - for two days of "work" they promised to pay $ 1,000. Initially, he was instructed to leave his passport under a tree on the street as collateral. Bobruiska, then gave instructions to go to the street. Palaces, near the building of green color pick up a package of dollars and hide in the territory of the Novodvorie village council.

Then the attacker received a new task: to take the victim’s money from the urn. At this point, finally realizing that he became involved in a criminal scheme, the foreigner himself decided to deceive the scammers and take all the money for himself. He arrived at the station where he was arrested.

Subsequently, a criminal case was instituted against a foreigner.

- The accused was not previously brought to criminal responsibility, said Alexander Sadovsky, deputy prosecutor of the Soviet district. He was charged with the seizure of property by deception (fraud), committed on a large scale, as part of an organized group, that is, in a crime under Part 4 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code, the sanction of which is imprisonment for a term of 3 to 12 years with a fine. The citizen fully admitted his guilt, repented of what he had done.

A preventive measure of detention has been applied against the accused.