The police exposed a previously convicted criminal who fraudulently extorted a significant amount of money from a Lviv woman
According to the law enforcement officers, the victim gave a stranger 35,000 hryvnias allegedly for an urgent operation on her son, who, according to the perpetrator, was injured in a traffic accident.
On August 30, around 7:00 p.m., a stranger called the victim, a resident of Lviv, on her mobile phone 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 fictional story and on the same evening handed over funds in the amount of 35 thousand hryvnias to the perpetrator. However, she soon found out that her son was not involved in the accident, but in fact she was the victim of fraud.
Detectives of the criminal police and investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 2 were involved in solving the crime. The law enforcement officers established that the victim transferred the funds to a 35-year-old resident of Kyiv, who had previously been criminally charged.
Investigators of the territorial division of the police, under the procedural guidance of the Frankiv District Prosecutor’s Office, informed the perpetrator of the suspicion of committing a criminal offense provided for in Part 2 of Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum punishment provided by the sanction of the article is imprisonment for a term of up to three years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police