In Lviv, on Leontovycha Street, police officers detained a 24-year-old resident of Zakarpattia region, suspected of a flat burglary and subsequently withdrawing funds from the victim’s bank card. This was reported by Lviv District Police Department No.1.
According to the investigation, on 8 July at around 18:15, the man entered a flat on the third floor of a building on Leontovycha Street. From the home of a 78-year-old pensioner, he stole a wallet containing bank cards and cash, after which he fled.
Subsequently, the perpetrator, using one of the stolen cards, withdrew a further 6,600 hryvnias from the victim’s account at a cash machine and appropriated the funds. Officers from the criminal police, investigators and staff of other units of Police Department No.1 of Lviv District Police Department No.1 were involved in solving the crime.
Law enforcement officers established the suspect’s whereabouts and detained him under Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Investigators of the territorial police unit, under the procedural supervision of the Halytskyi District Prosecutor’s Office, notified the man that he is suspected under Part 4 of Article 185 (theft) and Part 1 of Article 357 (abduction, appropriation, extortion of documents, stamps, seals, taking possession of them by fraud or abuse of office, or their damage) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The sanctions of these articles provide for a penalty of up to eight years’ imprisonment. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, and the court is soon to choose a preventive measure for the suspect. Law enforcement officers remind the public that under martial law, maximum penalties are provided for theft, robbery, aggravated robbery, extortion and a number of other offences.