In Minsk detained two foreign couriers scammers who managed to take from victims of fraud more than 100 thousand.

The operatives of the Minsk criminal investigation service detained two foreigners aged 20 and 21, who were following the instructions of telephone scammers in Belarus. They didn't know each other, but they were in a chain of deception. This was reported in the interior Ministry, writes sb.by.

- One of the defendants met with the victims and personally took money from them, and also took cash from the stashes. The second was supposed to monitor other couriers and transfer the stolen into cryptocurrency. With their help, the attackers lured three Minsk residents aged 14 to 73 years more than 100 thousand rubles in different currencies. And when the exchange office of couriers refused to accept pound notes, the scammers forced them to burn the bills in front of the camera. One of the detainees found and seized 10 thousand dollars, which gave a pensioner from the Soviet district of Minsk. The money will be returned to her, - the deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Mingory Executive Committee Artem Mikhnevich gave details.

Investigators opened a criminal case on fraud.

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