Another defendant in the Dolina apartment fraud case detained

The third person involved in a multimillion-dollar fraud committed against a Moscow resident has been detained, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office has reported. According to the source of "Izvestiya", it is a case related to the apartment of singer Larisa Dolina.

A 27-year-old previously convicted resident of Tatarstan has been detained. According to the agency, the man was found a bank card, to which the victim under the influence of swindlers transferred 10 million rubles. Subsequently, the attackers transferred the funds to a controlled account and distributed among themselves.

The prosecutor's office added that the detainee attracted to the crime the second defendant in the case, on whose bank card the victim transferred 3 million rubles.

"The man is charged under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group, on a particularly large scale"). In the near future, the court with the participation of the prosecutor will consider the issue of electing him a measure of restraint in the form of detention," the agency said.

On August 13, Dolina said that she became a victim of fraudsters. Attackers persuaded her to sell an apartment in the center of Moscow, and the money received to transfer to a supposedly safe account. A criminal case has been opened, the real estate has been seized.

Angela Tsyrulnikova, 53, through whom Dolina transferred part of the funds to the fraudsters, has been arrested. The second defendant - 43-year-old resident of Yoshkar-Ola Dmitry Leontiev - was detained on October 22.

The new owner of the apartment was 34-year-old single mother Polina Lurie. In late August, Dolina sued her, and on September 3, Lurie filed a counterclaim.