Kharkiv exposes fraudulent scheme of passenger transportation to occupied territories

In Kharkiv, a fraudulent scheme with passenger transportation to the occupied territories was uncovered. This was reported by the police of the Kharkiv region, UNN reports.

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Officers of the Cybercrime Department in Kharkiv region together with the Investigation Department of the Kharkiv Police Department No. 2 exposed a fraudulent scheme that led to the misappropriation of a citizen's funds during the registration of passenger transportation to the occupied territories.

According to the information, the 35-year-old defendant, a previously convicted unemployed citizen of Azerbaijan, was wanted for another property crime and was hiding in Kharkiv.

The man, having become a member of a virtual community about passenger transportation to the occupied territories, took advantage of the victim's trust and desperate situation, as she had no other way to travel to her family.

Thus, by posting a fictitious advertisement for passenger transportation to the occupied territories, the offender seized the woman's funds in the amount of 13 thousand hryvnias. The victim, having transferred the money as a prepayment for tickets, was left without the service and money.