15-year-old and 16-year-old teenagers took from pensioners 3 million rubles

In the Kemerovo region detained two teenagers from Novosibirsk, who are suspected of participating in a fraudulent scheme. The young people had to take three million rubles from an elderly couple from Novokuznetsk, but the transfer of money was controlled by the police.

According to the regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee, criminal investigation officers received information that the elderly residents of Novokuznetsk were victims of fraudsters. Despite this, the couple continued to communicate with scammers who demanded to transfer money to them through intermediaries.

The operatives arranged a controlled meeting. On October 14, the couple handed over three million rubles to the couriers who arrived for them. Immediately after that, the police detained the suspects. They were 15-year-old and 16-year-old residents of Novosibirsk.

Preliminary established that in August, the teenagers agreed in one of the messengers on the offer of unknown for a fee to take money from the elderly in Novokuznetsk.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Kemerovo region opened a criminal case against a 16-year-old teenager. He was charged with fraud on an especially large scale under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The maximum penalty under this article is up to ten years in prison.

The Ministry said that the second detainee, who is 15 years old, has not reached the age of criminal responsibility.