As the law enforcement officers established, one of the victimized women gave the attacker a bank card, from which he withdrew all funds – 2 thousand hryvnias, and the other gave him 140 thousand hryvnias in cash.
The fraudster invented the same “legend” for both victims.
According to the first victim, an 80-year-old resident of Lviv, an unknown man called her and informed her that her son was involved in a traffic accident, was injured and needed money for an urgent operation. The woman believed in this fictitious story and subsequently, since she did not have cash at home, she gave the attacker a bank card, from which he withdrew and appropriated all the funds – 2 thousand hryvnias. Having found out that her son was not involved in the accident, but in fact she was a victim of fraud, the pensioner turned to the police for help.
The same story was repeated with another resident of Lviv, also a 78-year-old pensioner. This time, the woman handed the stranger all the cash she had at home – 140,000 hryvnias.
Detectives of the criminal police and investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 2, as well as employees of the Department of Criminal Analysis of the Police of the Lviv region were involved in solving the crime. The law enforcement officers established that a 17-year-old resident of Kirovohrad region, who temporarily lives in Lviv, was involved in the crime.
Investigators of the territorial division of the police, under the procedural guidance of the Frankiv District Prosecutor’s Office, informed the intruder of the suspicion of committing a criminal offense, provided for in Part 3 of Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum penalty provided by the article is imprisonment for a term of up to eight years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police