The capital's police have completed a pre-trial investigation into a group of people. The lawyer and his two accomplices are suspected of defrauding bank clients of over 2 million hryvnias.
This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kyiv.
According to the case materials, the organizer of the “scheme” was a 36-year-old lawyer (a resident of the Kyiv region). He involved two residents of the region, aged 44 and 45, in his activities. The participants had a clear division of roles: the organizer led, coordinated actions and looked for “clients” – future debtors.
“His two accomplices, having illegally obtained the victims' personal and banking details, used this information to create fictitious loan agreements, initiate enforcement proceedings, and forcibly debit funds from the victims' accounts,” the report says.
The investigation established that during 2023-2025, the suspects wrote off funds from the accounts of two citizens in the amount of more than 2 million hryvnias. The investigators informed all three defendants of suspicion under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 5, Art. 190 Taking someone else's property by deception (fraud), committed on a particularly large scale, repeatedly, by an organized group , Part 2 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 190 Completed attempt to seize someone else's property by deception (fraud), committed on a particularly large scale, repeatedly, by an organized group , Part 3 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 358 Forgery of documents committed by an organized group , Part 3 of Art. 28, Part 4 of Art. 358 The use of a knowingly forged document committed by an organized group .
The charges, along with the criminal proceedings, have now been sent to court. The sanctions of the incriminated articles provide for up to twelve years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
It was previously reported that in Irpen, Kyiv region, law enforcement officers sent to court for consideration the case materials regarding the disappearance of 1.7 million hryvnias from a bank client's accounts. The head of the financial institution's branch is suspected of embezzlement.