In Moscow, police officers prevented a fraud against a pensioner in Moscow

Employees of the patrol-post service (PPS) of the capital's Khamovniki district prevented a fraud against an 81-year-old Muscovite. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on December 6.

"Police officers were on patrol route when they saw that at the entrance of one of the houses on Smolensk Boulevard, an unknown man takes a black bag from an elderly citizen and quickly leaves", - stated in the Telegram-channel of the department.

Law enforcers detained the suspect and found in the package more than 1.7 million rubles. The man confessed to the crime and said that he was going to transfer the money to the curators.

According to the victim, she received a call from unknown persons, who convinced her to hand over the money to the courier to place the funds on a "safe account." A criminal case has been opened on this fact, the suspect is in custody. The investigation continues.

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Earlier, on December 1, fraudsters in Moscow stole 24 million rubles from an 82-year-old resident of the capital by deceptive manipulations. The swindlers had been in touch with the pensioner since September, after which they forced the elderly man to "secretly work" for them using a familiar scheme. The pensioner turned to the police.