According to the public indictment of the Stryi district prosecutor’s office, the court found the resident of Stryi region guilty of fraud on a particularly large scale (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
He was sentenced to 6 years in prison with confiscation of all property.
Prosecutors proved in court that the convicted person illegally took possession of a significant amount of money, namely, he defrauded an acquaintance of 50,000 US dollars.
The man knew that his friend had savings and decided to get rich at his expense.
For this, he turned to his acquaintance with a request to borrow money for the development of the enterprise. The victim agreed to help a friend, but asked for a receipt. The convict agreed to the terms.
On the appointed day, the person involved came to the meeting to sign the receipt with his own pen and pre-prepared ink. The latter had the property to oxidize under the influence of air and disappear from the paper after some time after use.
Signing the receipt with a pen with disappearing ink, the man took 50,000 US dollars with the aim of never returning it to the owner.
When the time came to repay the debt, the person involved told his friend that he had never borrowed money from him and, accordingly, he would not repay anything.
When the victim took out the receipt, the signature of the accused was no longer on it.
However, thanks to the coordinated work of law enforcement agencies, which conducted a complex of investigative and search actions and initiated a number of examinations, it was established and proved in court that the convict signed the receipt and “borrowed” the above-mentioned amount.
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Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office