“Suspicion in the financing of terrorists”: 18-year-old courier stole a million rubles from Smolyanka on the instructions of fraudsters

Retelling: In Smolensk, police detained an 18-year-old resident of Moscow, who worked as a courier in a group of telephone fraudsters. The girl is suspected of stealing one million rubles from a local pensioner.

The criminal scheme was classic: in September 1955, a woman was born in the messenger called by an unknown person who introduced himself as a law enforcement officer. He said that the Smolyanka was allegedly involved in financing a terrorist organization. Frightened, the pensioner agreed to transfer his savings — 1 million rubles — courier for “checking”.

The police identified the drop courier and took the girl from Moscow to Smolensk. She explained that the stolen money was taken to the capital and handed over to an unknown man, with whom she kept in touch remotely through a curator. It is established that the suspect was involved in a similar episode in the Tver region. At present, a criminal case has been opened against her, she is under a subscription of not leaving and proper conduct.