Almost UAH 1.5 million stolen from accounts of fallen Ukrainian soldiers: gang of fraudsters detained
Kyiv • UNN
A gang of fraudsters, including an employee of the forensic bureau, an IT specialist and a repeat offender, stole almost UAH 1.5 million from the bank accounts of fallen Ukrainian soldiers by accessing their personal belongings and hacking into banking applications.
The Security Service and the National Police have detained fraudsters who stole funds from the bank accounts of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. This was reported by the press service of the SBU, UNN reports .
According to the case, the offenders withdrew all the savings of the military, whose bodies were taken to Dnipro for forensic examination. To commit the crime, the offenders engaged an employee of the regional bureau of forensic examination. He stole personal belongings of the fallen soldiers on the territory of the morgue,
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It is noted that among the looted items are payment cards and mobile phones whose numbers were registered in online banking. Using these gadgets, the criminals logged into banking applications and transferred money to their own accounts. In this way, the offenders also applied for online loans and then cashed them at the nearest ATMs.
The fraudsters tried to carry out the transactions as quickly as possible before the financial institutions received information about the death of the real owners of the bank accounts. In this way, the criminals embezzled almost UAH 1.5 million belonging to the fallen defenders of Ukraine.
The SBU and the National Police detained all five participants in the scheme, who, according to the investigation, were acting as part of a criminal group. In addition to the employee of the forensic bureau, the gang included an IT specialist who "hacked" the banking applications of fallen soldiers, as well as a repeat offender with a criminal record.
During the searches of the detainees' homes and cars, mobile phones, SIM cards and bank cards of the defendants, as well as cards, personal belongings and uniforms of the deceased soldiers were seized.
Based on the collected evidence, the offenders were served a notice of suspicion under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Article 190(4) (fraud committed on a large scale);
- ч. 4 of Art. 185 (theft);
- ч. 2 of Art. 361 (unauthorized interference with the operation of information and communication systems, electronic communication networks, by prior conspiracy by a group of persons);
- ч. 1 of Art. 358 (forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps).
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