A fraudster cheated a pensioner out of 6 million rubles in Moscow

In Moscow, the police identified one of the participants of the scheme to defraud a 76-year-old man of 6 million rubles. This was reported on December 27 by the press service of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the capital.

It is known that the victim received a phone call allegedly from representatives of a cellular operator and government agencies. They, threatening to illegally write off money from bank accounts, persuaded the man to hand them over to the courier for crediting to a supposedly safe account. So, in a few days the pensioner gave to different couriers over 6 million rubles in cash.

"The detectives came on the trail of one of the criminal messengers, who took from the victim more than 1.5 million rubles. As it turned out, the stolen money the attacker transferred to accomplices, leaving himself 60 thousand rubles as payment for the work done", - stated in the message published in the Telegram-channel "MIA Media".

The criminal case was initiated under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale").

"The figurant elected a measure of restraint in the form of a signature on non-departure and proper behavior", - added in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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The damage at the end of the year, tentatively, will amount to about 2.5 billion rubles

Earlier, on December 24, in Egorievsk in the Moscow region, a woman who defrauded a pensioner of 4 million rubles was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony. According to the investigation, the swindlers contacted the victim on behalf of the Central Bank. They convinced the man that the swindlers were allegedly trying to steal his real estate. The local resident agreed to sell the apartment.