The perpetrator, a 50-year-old resident of the city of Sokal, was exposed by the employees of the cybercrime countermeasures department in the Lviv region together with the investigators of the Chervonograd district police department, under the procedural guidance of the Chervonograd district prosecutor’s office.
As the law enforcement officers established, the suspect, the chief credit specialist of one of the banking institutions, abusing her official position, entered into the bank’s electronic systems inaccurate information about the client and issued a fictitious application on her behalf for obtaining a consumer loan, allegedly for the purchase of furniture. She later appropriated the loan funds – the amount of losses caused to the bank is almost fifty thousand hryvnias.
The investigators informed the perpetrator of the suspicion of criminal offenses provided for in part 2 of article 191 (Empropriation, waste of property or possession of it by abuse of official position), part 1 of article 362 (Unauthorized actions with information processed in computers, automated systems, computer networks or stored on the media of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 1 of Article 366 (Official Forgery) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The maximum punishment the suspect faces is imprisonment for a term of up to five years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police