The prosecutors of the Galician District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Lviv completed the pre-trial investigation and sent the indictment to the court against the 26-year-old woman. She is accused of fraud (Part 3 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The investigation established that a resident of Lviv Oblast was extorting money from citizens under the guise of selling non-existent military ammunition. She created profiles on social networks Instagram and Telegram, where they offered to buy military uniforms, military helmets, portable chargers, etc.
For the product, she asked for a full prepayment on a bank card. At the same time, she did not have any goods, and the woman used the received money for her own needs.
As part of the criminal proceedings, 8 victims were identified, whom the accused managed to cheat out of almost 365,000 hryvnias.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police of the Lviv Region, under the operational support of the Cybercrime Countermeasures Department in the Lviv Region of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
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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