In Kharkiv, police detained fraudsters who took away apartments from citizens of respectable age
The group consisted of four people — citizens of Ukraine and foreigners. The organizer is currently being held in a detention center on suspicion of committing a robbery attack. From there, the man directed and supervised all the actions of his “wards”.
Yesterday, October 27, operatives of the Directorate of Strategic Investigations in Kharkiv region, investigators of the regional police department with the force support of KORD detained three members of the criminal group — two men and a woman.
Under the leadership of the leader of the group, who is currently in a detention center for committing a robbery attack, they developed a criminal plan. The defendants entered into trust with citizens of respectable age, stole the original documents for apartments and, on the basis of fake powers of attorney, re-issued them to their accomplice, and then sold them to other persons.
Part of the funds received in this way was distributed among all members of the criminal group. The rest was spent on solving issues related to the process of preparation and re-registration of real estate.
It was according to this scheme that the attackers re-registered the apartment in the center of Kharkiv, which belonged to the pensioner, and tried to sell it.
Three members of the criminal group were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. According to the results of searches in the car and their places of residence, the police seized a pistol with signs of recycling, documents and things confirming the criminal activity of the defendants, mobile phones, part of the cash in the amount of 33 700 dollars. United States and UAH 30,000, obtained during an attempt to alienate the specified apartment to a third party by deception, a collection of daggers that were previously stolen from the victim's apartment.
The issue of notifying the organizer and his three accomplices about the suspicion under Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. In addition, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, which carries out the procedural guidance of the pre-trial investigation, will apply to the court with a request to elect the detainees a preventive measure in the form of detention. Measures for the detention of the criminal group were carried out with the participation of the USBU in the Kharkiv region. For fraud committed on a particularly large scale, the current legislation provides
for liability in the form of imprisonment for a term of up to 12 years with confiscation of property.
Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine
