100 thousand hryvnia were stolen from Ukrainian children with cancer from bank cards
The cyber police have exposed a criminal group that carried out fraudulent transactions with bank cards of cancer patients and seriously ill children, intended to transfer funds for treatment, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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This was reported by the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
“It has been established that the scammers caused damage to citizens in the amount of more than 100 thousand hryvnia. “In addition, thanks to the coordinated actions of employees of the Donetsk Cyber Police Department, representatives of mobile operators and banking institutions, seven more cases of possible fraud were warned in the amount of about half a million hryvnia,” the report says.
During the investigation, it turned out that the criminal group consisted of five people - residents of the Donetsk region and Zaporozhye. It was organized by a 27-year-old man. According to investigators, he directed the actions of the group members while in prison on the territory of the LDPR.
According to police, when relatives placed advertisements on television or on Internet resources asking for financial assistance for the treatment of a child, fraudsters used the provided bank card and mobile phone numbers, and then used them to seize the victims' funds.
They produced duplicate SIM cards, with the help of which they could easily authenticate the person, and subsequently received cash using the banks’ “withdrawing money without a card” function.
Police conducted searches at the place of residence of members of the criminal group; computer equipment, mobile phones, bank cards, applications for the production of duplicate SIM cards, as well as SIM cards from Ukrainian mobile operators were seized. In addition, draft cash flow records were found.
At the moment, 13 bank accounts of those involved in the case have been seized. Two members of the criminal group have already been declared suspect in 9 criminal proceedings initiated under Art. 190 (fraud), art. 200 (Illegal actions with transfer documents, payment cards and other means of access to bank accounts) and Art. 361 (Unauthorized interference with the operation of electronic computers) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The case with the indictment has already been sent to court.
The organizer of the group is wanted in connection with his stay in temporarily occupied territory. In relation to two more members of the group, the materials of the criminal proceedings were separated into separate proceedings. The investigation is ongoing.
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