Four drop guides were detained in St. Petersburg for illegal circulation of bank cards

Four drop guides were detained in St. Petersburg for illegal trafficking of electronic means of payments. This was announced on August 31 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

"The accomplices were looking for citizens interested in easy earnings and instructed them to issue bank cards for themselves for a monetary reward, which were subsequently transferred to the group members for further misuse," Wolf wrote in the Maks messenger.

According to the investigation, the attackers used more than a thousand bank cards, and the illegal turnover of funds amounted to more than 112 million rubles. Also, as a result of operational search measures, 26 more droppers were found who sold their card data to criminals.

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg has opened a criminal case under Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal circulation of funds of payments").

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To combat droppers, on June 9, the State Duma adopted a law according to which citizens can have no more than 20 bank cards. According to the deputies, the measure will help complicate the lives of dropouts and reduce the use of banking infrastructure for fraudulent purposes.

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