Minusinsk police will return money to a pensioner who suffered at the hands of scammers

Minusinsk police are ready to return the money that an elderly man transferred to scammers in an attempt to make money on investments. This was reported to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In May of this year, a 70-year-old man contacted the police duty station and transferred money to scammers in an attempt to make money on investments. The pensioner sent the attackers 64 thousand rubles to buy shares. After he was asked to make another money transfer, he suspected that he was communicating with scammers.

Based on this fact, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

“As a result of operational search activities, it was established that the attacker used a bank account registered in the name of a resident of the Irkutsk region to receive funds,” the police said.

The investigative department filed a petition with the court to seize the bank account and transfer funds to the account of the Intermunicipal Department.

This request was granted and currently the funds are in the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Minusinsky”. At the request of the victim, the money will be returned to him.

Let us remind you that earlier in Minusinsk police detained a courier of telephone scammers who stole 200 thousand rubles from a pensioner.