A resident of Achinsk transferred almost 4 million rubles from her father to a fraudster from Tomsk (video)

In Krasnoyarsk, police detained a touring courier of scammers. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region.

To the Achinsk police duty station a local resident contacted and said that handed over almost 4 million rubles belonging to her father to an unknown man.

The police established that the girl received a call allegedly from the tax service. They told her that she had problems declaring taxes and sent her a code via SMS. When she called him, she received another call. The subscriber introduced himself as a law enforcement officer and stated that the money in her account could be blocked, so she needed to transfer cash for declaration, and after the procedure the money would be returned. The girl knew that her father’s safe contained almost 4 million rubles, which she took and handed over to the courier.

“During operational search activities in Krasnoyarsk, employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the region, together with colleagues from Achinsk and the regional capital, identified and detained a previously convicted native of Tomsk, born in 2004, who admitted to participating in a fraudulent scheme. The man told police that he got a job as a courier after finding an advertisement in a popular instant messenger. The curator sent him the addresses of the victims, where he took the money and sent it to different accounts or transferred it to other intermediaries. For this he received four percent. The courier understood that his activities were illegal, and even used conspiracy methods, but they did not help him,” the regional police clarified.

Law enforcement officers also established that the detainee also visited Krasnoyarsk, where he took 1 million rubles from a resident of Zelenogorsk, who specially came to meet the courier in the regional capital. The attacker handed her a piece of paper under the guise of a declaration and promised to return the money in a few days.

Two criminal cases have been initiated against the suspect under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The man is in custody. Currently, the circumstances of several more cases of fraud in the Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar territories in which he may be involved are being established.

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