Fraudsters extorted more than 10 million rubles from a WWII veteran from St. Petersburg

Fraudsters have extorted more than 10 million rubles from a 94-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a blockade runner and a scientist from St. Petersburg. A source told Izvestia about this on April 11.

"In March, unknown people called the pensioner, introduced themselves as law enforcement officers and convinced him to transfer the existing savings, allegedly for declaration," the source explained.

The Petersburger gave the courier 4 million rubles, $19 thousand and €51.5 thousand — a total of 10.3 million rubles.

"They said that almost the KGB would come to check on you. <...> It's a nightmare, I don't even understand what happened. They said that somewhere someone had written to me that I had given someone a lot of money, and therefore a check would come to me and so on," the pensioner told Izvestia.

A criminal case has been opened on this fact under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

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