In Yekaterinburg stopped three facts of fraud against military personnel

In the Sverdlovsk region, employees of the threat department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Yekaterinburg stopped three facts of fraud against military personnel.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region, in September in Yekaterinburg, operatives detained attackers who stole about 5 million rubles from the participants of the SVO. Further operational-search measures allowed to stop a series of such crimes.

Now detained two unrelated groups of scammers, including two residents of Korkino, Chelyabinsk region in 2003 and 2004. They are suspected of having fraudulently taken a bank card from a resident of Pervouralsk and tried to withdraw 2.9 million rubles from it, accrued for participation in the SVO.

The second criminal couple - 33-year-old visitors from the Rostov region. Trusting these fraudsters, two Sverdlovsk residents almost lost a total of 2 million rubles.

As the police found, both groups acted according to a similar scheme: they found people in difficult life situations and offered them work as builders or handymen in the territories of new regions of the Russian Federation. Having received consent, the fraudsters accompanied the victims to the Sverdlovsk military enlistment offices and persuaded them to conclude a contract. After that, under various pretexts, they took funds from military personnel to steal lump sum payments and allowances.

Crimes were prevented thanks to representatives of the Armed Forces and bank employees. Suspicion was caused by appeals of unauthorized persons who, posing as relatives or acquaintances of contractors, tried to withdraw money from their accounts.

When checking the phones of the detainees, police found photos and videos of the suspects posing with large amounts of cash.

The investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Yekaterinburg opened cases under Part 1 of Article 30 and Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. All the defendants were selected a preventive measure in the form of detention.

As MK-Ural reported, the Berezovsky City Court sentenced 22-year-old Muscovite Ivan Sidorov. The defendant was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code). The young man participated in a criminal scheme as a courier and stole more than 1 million rubles from a pensioner, but at the same time he was involved in a scam by deception.