In Kryvyi Rih, participants of an organized group will be tried for appropriating a million hryvnias of citizens
The defendants worked as credit managers of a financial company and issued fictitious loans to citizens. For their actions, they face up to 12 years in prison.
The illegal activity was exposed by the cyber police of the Dnipropetrovsk region together with the police department №7 of the Kryvyi Rih district police department.
It was established that three residents of Kryvyi Rih aged 25-28 are involved in illegal actions. Women worked as credit managers for a financial company. The attackers issued repeated loans to clients of the financial company, who previously used its services and were already in the databases of the institution.
In the future, having access to the software complex, personal documents of the victims were downloaded. Then they forged their signature on the loan agreement. Then they entered the contract into the base of the financial company and received money instead of the victims.
65 people suffered from the actions of the attackers. The amount of damage caused is more than one million hryvnias.
According to this fact, criminal proceedings were opened under Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Suspects face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings is completed. The indictment against the members of the organized group is directed to the court.
Procedural management is carried out by the Kryvyi Rih Southern District Prosecutor's Office.
Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine
