Achinsk taxi driver brought 4.7 million rubles to the police, intended for scammers (video)

An alert taxi driver helped save the savings of a 78-year-old Krasnoyarsk woman from scammers.

A 26-year-old resident of Achinsk said that he received an order to pick up a package from an elderly woman and take it to Novosibirsk. Arriving at the specified address, the driver noticed that the grandmother was nervous and could not answer the question of whether she knew the recipient well. Going out into the street The taxi driver opened the bag and saw a large sum of money in it – about 4.7 million rubles. Knowing about methods of fraud, he decided to take the parcel to the police. At the same time, customers continued to call him and hurried him to complete the order.

“Krasnoyarsk law enforcement officers contacted their colleagues from Novosibirsk and, having enlisted their support, decided to send a taxi driver to a meeting with the recipients of the parcel. Having reached his destination, he told the local police the address where the bag would be handed over. Employees of the Novosibirsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs red-handed detained local residents aged 19 and 23 who had no previous convictions and took them to Krasnoyarsk,” the police said.

It has been previously established that the attackers are accomplices of remote scammers. Now investigators are establishing all episodes of their criminal activities.

The money found in the bag was returned to the owner, who did not even have time to realize that she had almost become a victim of scammers.

TOIt turned out that a woman called my grandmother and said that she needed to come to the social security office to re-register her pension, and asked her to dictate the series and number of her passport, supposedly for the production of a pass. After this, false law enforcement officers contacted the grandmother and stated that, by transmitting the data, the Krasnoyarsk woman had joined a criminal group and illegal activities related to the financing of criminal organizations were being carried out on her behalf. To avoid problems with the law, the woman was asked to hand over all the cash to the courier for “declaration”.

Currently, a criminal case has been initiated under Part 4 of Art. on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, all circumstances of the crime are established.

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