In Primorye, seven people were accused of fraud in the amount of more than 25 million rubles.

In the Nadezhdinsky district of Primorsky Krai, seven people were detained who are accused of fraud with a land plot worth more than 25 million rubles. This was announced on September 16 by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SU TFR) for the region.

"According to investigators, in 2018, members of a criminal group fraudulently acquired the right to a plot of land that looks like "common land". <...> They deliberately misrepresented the geographical coordinates of a 3-hectare land share purchased from a citizen <...> and registered it on the basis of a forged surveying project with changes in it the coordinates of the location," the department's Telegram channel says.

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 or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to housing").

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Earlier, on September 12, in Bratsk, a fraudster disguised as a broker lured a pensioner out of 10 million rubles. It is noted that the fraudster convinced the victim to contribute large sums, including loans secured by property and from relatives. As a result, after transferring a large amount, the woman received a verification message, after which the victim's spouse realized that they had been deceived and contacted the police.

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