In Lviv region, an indictment has been submitted to court against a 33-year-old resident of Kirovohrad region who is temporarily living in the Stryi area and who, according to the investigation, gained access to the mobile banking application of a resident of Stryi district and misappropriated his funds.
Investigators established that in April the woman, without the victim’s knowledge, logged into his mobile banking application and carried out several payment transactions. She transferred money from the man’s account to the bank accounts of her husband and brother for a total amount of more than 161,000 hryvnias.
Subsequently, according to the case file, the accused misappropriated these funds and spent them on purchasing a laptop, a television and jewellery. The woman was exposed by officers of the Cybercrime Counteraction Department in Lviv region together with investigators from Police Station No. 2 of the Stryi District Police Department, under the procedural supervision of the Stryi District Prosecutor’s Office.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings opened under Part 1 of Article 361 (unauthorised interference with the operation of information, electronic communications, information and communication systems, electronic communications networks), Part 4 of Article 185 (theft) and Part 1 of Article 209 (legalisation of property obtained by criminal means) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine has been completed, and the indictment has been submitted to court.
On the aggregate of the charges brought, the accused faces up to eight years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Law enforcement officers remind citizens of the need to protect their finances: do not disclose bank card details, expiry dates, codes and passwords to third parties; do not hand over mobile phones, through which banking applications can be accessed, to people you barely know; and in the event of the theft of a mobile device, immediately block access to your bank accounts.