Metropolitan police officers exposed a criminal group specializing in currency exchange fraud
The attackers created fictitious currency exchange points where, abusing the trust of customers, they seized their funds. Law enforcement officers established the involvement of the defendants in a number of similar crimes in the capital. For their actions, they face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Within the framework of the implementation of the materials of the criminal proceedings initiated under Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police Department with the support of operational services and force support of the special unit KORD and under the procedural guidance of the Pechersk District Prosecutor's Office established and detained an organized group of persons with reasonable suspicion involved in fraud with the exchange of foreign currency in particularly large amounts.
Roles were distributed among the attackers. In particular, two of them dealt with organizational issues — renting premises and arranging them for currency exchange points. Another of the defendants acted as a cashier, and the other was a security guard. When customers transferred money for exchange, the cashier left through a black exit and then fled the crime scene with accomplices.
The fraudsters were detained by the police during the commission of the crime on Shovkovichna Street in the Pechersk district of the capital, where the sharecroppers seized the money of a Kiev citizen in the amount of 68 400 US dollars in a fictitious exchanger. The men were detained under the order of Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Among them, a previously convicted native of Chernihiv, born in 1992, a 27-year-old native of Kharkiv region, previously convicted native of Rivne region, born in 1987, and a citizen of Kiev, born in 1987.
Law enforcement officers have established the involvement of detainees in a number of similar crimes on the territory of Kyiv. The issue of notifying the defendants of suspicion of committing a crime, provided for in part 4 of Art. 4, is resolved. 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to 12 years imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Kyiv Police Communications Department
