Prosecutors of the Galician District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Lviv completed the pre-trial investigation and sent an indictment to the court against a group of persons on the facts of fraud (Part 3 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The accused are currently in custody.
The investigation established that the resident of Odesa together with his friend, who is currently serving a sentence in one of the correctional colonies of the Lviv region, organized a fraudulent scheme of misappropriation of funds under the guise of collecting charitable assistance.
To do this, they created a fake account on the Facebook social network, in which they published posts asking for help for wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
They attached the card number for the transfer of funds to the publication. In the future, they divided all the received funds among themselves and disposed of them at their own discretion.
Thanks to the coordinated work of the law enforcement officers, the accused managed to seize the funds of only five people.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by the investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police of the region under the operational support of the Directorate for Combating Cybercrimes in the Lviv Region.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
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