Fraudster convinced elderly Pskovich to transfer savings to the so-called “safe account”

In Pskov, police identified a courier of telephone fraudsters who seized the savings of an elderly citizen in the amount of about 7 million rubles. Details of “MK in Pskov” reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Pskov region.

According to the investigation, from August to September this year, an unknown person, posing as an employee of a financial organization, convinced an elderly Pskovich to transfer savings to a so-called “safe account”. Most of the money the pensioner handed over to the arrived courier scammers, the rest transferred through an ATM.

On this fact, a criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

During the operational-search activities, the police established the courier of the fraudsters. He was a 24-year-old unemployed native of the Leningrad region, who is also suspected of committing a similar crime in St. Petersburg.

A preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen against the defendant. An investigation is under way.