In Krasnoyarsk, a pensioner handed over 2 million rubles to a fraudster.

In Krasnoyarsk, an elderly woman gave the courier of a telephone fraudster 2 million rubles. This was announced on June 26 by the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

"The day before, the police department received a message from an elderly resident of Krasnoyarsk, born in 1937, who said that she had become a victim of fraud," the Telegram channel said.

According to the investigation, the fraudster warned the pensioner that allegedly all the bills from her savings needed to be declared and they needed to be handed over to the courier. An elderly woman trusted the conman and handed over her savings in the amount of 2 million rubles.

Operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department, together with Krasnoyarsk police officers, detained a 20-year-old courier. According to the agency, the suspect admitted his guilt. Currently, the police are checking him for involvement in the commission of similar crimes.

A criminal case was opened on this fact under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale").

Numbered background: Victims of phone scams have been waiting for cases to be filed for months

What influences the detection of such crimes?

Earlier, on June 25, in the Lipetsk region, a 75-year-old woman was injured as a result of fraud. The pensioner transferred 1.1 million rubles to outside accounts.