Law enforcement exposed a scam selling non-existent tours to Greece and tracked down 230 people
Cheap tour, good conditions and five-star hotel - all these conditions were bought by residents of different cities of Ukraine and they decided to book a summer vacation in Greece to residents of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
The woman posted an announcement about the tour on the Internet. The ticket cost 340 Euro. This amount included nine nights at the resort, two meals a day, insurance and a comfortable bus ride. She assured all clients, among whom there were more than 100 children, that the Lviv travel company, with which she cooperates, had already booked rooms.
Three buses to Greece departed from Ternopol, and another from Borshkov. When tourists arrived at the specified hotel, it turned out that the hotel canceled the reservation, since no one paid for the holiday.
For the first night, people paid independently - the room cost from 140 euros. The next day they were already supposed to meet, but representatives of the embassy and law enforcement agencies intervened.
The Lviv firm, with which the “businessman” allegedly cooperated, nevertheless allocated 5.5 million hryvnias and paid for the tour of the victims from its own pocket. After that, the heads of the travel agency addressed the law enforcement agencies with a statement. The tourists themselves wrote complaints to the police.
During the operational and investigative actions, the criminal police officers together with the investigators under the procedural guidance of the Ternopil District Prosecutor's Office established the whereabouts of the suspect. The woman confessed to the deed. Of the 127 thousand euros, she returned only 20 thousand euros, 15 thousand dollars, 40 thousand hryvnias and assured that the rest would also be compensated by the travel agency.
This fact was entered by the investigators in the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations.
The woman has already been declared a suspect in accordance with part 4 of Article 190 (fraud committed on a particularly large scale) of the Criminal Code. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a period of five to twelve years with confiscation of property. The investigation is ongoing.
National Police of Ukraine
