In the Lviv region, law enforcement officers reported a suspect to an intruder who was swindling money from people under the guise of “investment”
The suspect, a 24-year-old resident of Chervonograd, was exposed by the operatives of the Cybercrime Countermeasures Office in the Lviv Region together with the investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1, under the procedural guidance of the Galicia District Prosecutor’s Office.
As the law enforcement officers established, the suspect created a page in one of the messengers on the Internet, on which he published false information about the possibility of earning. Those willing were offered to “invest” their own funds with the possibility of making a profit in the future.
In fact, the attacker did not have any opportunities to ensure payments to “investors” in the specified amount, and he appropriated the funds of “clients” by manipulating accounts and bank cards.
Thus, in one of the cases, the man appropriated the funds of one of the “clients” in the amount of more than three thousand hryvnias. Law enforcement officers are establishing the identities of the other victims.
The investigators informed the intruder about the suspicion of committing a criminal offense provided for in Part 3 of Article 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment – a fine of four thousand to eight thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens or deprivation of liberty for a period of three to five years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police