In Rybinsk, a vigilant taxi driver helped intercept the courier of fraudsters

In the Yaroslavl region, thanks to a vigilant taxi driver, a courier of telephone fraudsters who deceived a pensioner from Rybinsk was detained.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Yaroslavl region, the taxi driver drove up to the stationary post of the State Traffic Inspectorate in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, went out and neatly informed the traffic police that he was carrying a suspicious passenger who leads suspicious conversations. Maybe he's an accomplice to fraudsters. The taxi driver did not want to be involved in the crime.

Employees no less carefully took the passenger into circulation and inspected. In the bag of a young man born in 2005 was more than 2.5 million rubles. As it turned out in the further analysis of the situation, the money was given to him by a woman, a resident of Rybinsk, born in 1947.

The detainee said that some time ago he got a job as a courier, on the instructions of the “curator” he came to Rybinsk, where he received a package of money from a pensioner who called the code word “weather”. The detainee had to transfer these funds to Moscow. The moment of the transfer of money got into the lens of the street video surveillance camera, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Upon further investigation of the circumstances, it turned out that telephone scammers “sit on the ears” of the elderly lady in September, and for two months lured her more than 13 million rubles.

The investigative department of the MIA of Russia “Rybinskoye” initiated a criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation “Fraud in especially large size”, the detained courier was detained.