A resident of Minsk district on the instructions of fraudsters twice flew abroad for the sake of “positive characterization”

During the operational-search activities, employees of the capital’s criminal investigation department detained a 41-year-old resident of the Minsk district, who turned out to be a courier of telephone fraudsters. This was reported in the press service of the Mingory Executive Committee, writes sb.by.

It is known that the man was deceived by the intercom replacement scheme, after which he called on behalf of the organization “BelGIE” and reported that allegedly fraudsters took possession of personal data and on his behalf carry out illegal financial transactions. To avoid criminal prosecution, the caller advised to write a statement to the KGC, there will help and give a good description. The man was frightened and began to unconditionally fulfill the requirements of the curator, who was assigned to him.

To get a “positive characterization”, the man met with two allegedly freelance employees of the KGC, took envelopes with money from them and twice flew abroad, where he handed over to unknown people.

A few days later, the man received new coordinates for meetings with fake KGC employees. He took money from two more Minsk residents, but did not have time to take abroad - he was detained by operatives.

Thanks to the coordinated work of police officers, more than 80 thousand were saved. The money is withdrawn and will be returned to the owners. This fact is being checked.

As part of the fight against fraudsters, Belarusian law enforcement officers suspended spending operations on 76 accounts