He seized 58 thousand dollars and fled: law enforcement detained the owner of a fictitious exchanger
The capital's law enforcement officers received a report that the cashier of the exchange office took 58 thousand dollars. He had to exchange the money for hryvnia, but he escaped. The fraudster was detained by the police.
Law enforcement officers found that the man offered to change the currency at a favorable rate. Relevant ads were posted on social networks. And in the rented room was equipped with a fake exchanger. There he received visitors, and when he saw an attractive offer to exchange funds, he fled through a spare exit.
Criminal investigation officers of the capital's head and operatives of the Shevchenko police department joined the search for the fraudster. With the help of analysts of the Criminal Analysis Department, law enforcement officers quickly established the route of movement of the offender and detained the fraudster.
The detainee is an 18-year-old resident of the Zaporizhzhya region. Previously, he was a defendant of a similar criminal offense committed in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital.
According to this fact, investigators initiated criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Art. 190 - fraud committed on a particularly large scale of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The attacker has already been informed of the suspicion. And the court chose a preventive measure for the defendant - detention with the possibility of posting a bail of more than two million hryvnias. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a period of five to twelve years with confiscation of property.
National Police of Ukraine
