The Shevchenko District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv has reported suspicions against a 53-year-old Latvian-born stateless man. He is accused of organizing a fraudulent scheme to embezzle money from elderly people.
This was reported today, May 6, by the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.
According to the case materials, pensioners who once bought dietary supplements Biologically active supplements (BADA) are special food products (concentrates of vitamins, minerals, plant extracts, amino acids) intended for intake with food. They are not medicines. of Russian origin, called mobile phones and reported that they sponsored the aggressor country. So they need to come for questioning to the SBU and hand over all their savings for verification.
The prosecutor's office found out that one of the victims, a 71-year-old Kyiv resident, gave UAH 1.9 million “for verification.” Another pensioner (76 years old) gave UAH 160,000, over USD 10,000, and EUR 11,000.
The suspect used a 75-year-old woman as a courier, who was also initially asked to “give money for verification,” but she had no savings. The woman believed that she was really helping the SBU, so after taking money from other pensioners, she handed it over to the suspect. Law enforcement officers informed the man of suspicion under Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum sanction of the article provides for up to twelve years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The department informed that the man is currently absconding from the pre-trial investigation. He has been put on the wanted list with a warrant for his arrest to be taken to court. The court is expected to consider a motion to apply a preventive measure – detention.
“During a search of the suspect's house, over $40,000 was seized. A motion was filed with the court to seize the money and part of the suspect's house in order to compensate the victims,” the report says.
It was previously reported that the capital's law enforcement officers suspect a 36-year-old man from Sumy region of fraud. According to the investigation, he presented himself as an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine and swindled a 71-year-old People's Artist of Ukraine out of more than 128 thousand US dollars and 400 thousand hryvnias. The suspect was detained and a preventive measure was chosen – detention with the alternative of bail in the amount of more than 3.3 million hryvnias.