Muscovite was tricked into exchanging $330,000 for Bank of Jokes tickets

A foreign conman was detained in Moscow, who took $ 330 thousand from a resident of the capital, giving in return tickets of the "bank of jokes" under the guise of 30 million rubles. This was announced on March 24 by the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry.

It is indicated that the victim, a 36—year-old Muscovite, contacted the fraudster after an announcement about a profitable currency exchange. A man gave a stranger in an expensive foreign car on Presnenskaya Embankment $ 330 thousand, receiving in return, as it seemed to him, 30 million rubles. However, after the fraudster's departure, the victim discovered that he had been given not money, but tickets from the bank of jokes, a comic imitation of real currency.

"The operatives identified and detained the suspect. He turned out to be a 31-year-old foreigner temporarily residing in the capital. He disposed of the stolen money at his discretion," the Interior Ministry's Telegram channel reported.

A case was opened against the defendant under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud on an especially large scale"), he was taken into custody.

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Earlier, in October, the grandson of a Moscow resident stole 90 thousand rubles from his grandfather, replacing them with tickets from the bank of jokes. It is indicated that initially the grandmother asked for the substitution of money — in this way she wanted to hide her own embezzlement from the man's savings. However, instead of the agreed 5,000 rubles, the grandson replaced all the bills in his grandfather's untouchable reserve with counterfeit ones.