In the Lviv region, law enforcement officers exposed a “wide-profile” criminal suspected of fraud, forgery of documents and illegal transportation of persons across the state border
For the crime committed, the suspect is liable to imprisonment for a term of up to nine years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years with confiscation of property.
A 41-year-old resident of Lviv district was exposed for fraud by criminal police operatives together with investigators of police department No. 2 of Lviv district police department No. 1, under the procedural guidance of the Zhovkiv district prosecutor’s office.
As the law enforcement officers established, in the period from 2019 to 2022, the man swindled money from citizens, offering them to purchase agricultural machinery – tractors of various brands, cultivators, harrows, choppers and mowers. “Clients” transferred funds to the “seller” as payment for the goods, which he had to hand over to them, however, none of them received the ordered equipment. Instead, the attacker appropriated the received money. The total amount of damage caused to the victims is more than 270 thousand hryvnias.
Investigators of the territorial division of the police informed the intruder about the suspicion of committing a criminal offence, provided for in Part 2 of Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum punishment provided by the sanction of the article is imprisonment for a term of up to three years.
However, with the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian aggressors into Ukraine, the suspect “requalified”. As the law enforcement officers together with the soldiers of the 7th border detachment established, in 2024, for 3 thousand US dollars, he organized the illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine to a citizen conscripted into military service. For this, the man forged an employment contract for the “client” in one of the international organizations, which gave him the opportunity to leave the country.
The law enforcement officers notified the intruder of suspicion of criminal offenses provided for in part 3 of article 332 (Illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and part 1 of article 358 (Forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum penalty provided by the sanctions of these articles is imprisonment for a term of up to nine years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years with confiscation of property.
Pre-trial investigations are ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police