In Chelyabinsk, fraudsters tried to extort more than 30 million rubles from a woman.

A member of an interregional criminal group was detained in the Chelyabinsk Region, who tried to extort more than 30 million rubles from a local resident. This was reported to Izvestia by the FSB Department for the region on April 29.

With the help of various tricks and manipulations, the attackers lured large sums of money from the residents of the region. Among other things, they provided false information about their involvement in the activities of the FSB of Russia.

"The Management staff found that in April of this year, the organized criminal group, through telecommunications, misled a resident of Chelyabinsk, prompted the latter to withdraw funds in the amount of more than 30 million rubles from a bank account and transfer them through an intermediary to intruders," the report said.

Thanks to the implemented operational combination, the FSB officers managed to prevent theft.

It is noted that a criminal case has been opened against the defendant under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (attempted fraud committed by an organized group). The suspect was detained, and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen for him.

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On April 1, a man was detained in Novosibirsk, who stole more than 3 million rubles of savings from a pensioner in Krasnoyarsk and transferred the money to accomplices. It was noted that the man already had a criminal record. It was established that he managed to transfer almost the entire amount through the cryptocurrency exchange office, he left only 90 thousand rubles for himself. A criminal case has been opened on this fact under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").