In Zaporizhzhia, law enforcement officers exposed fraudsters who “sold” an electronic queue to a service center
A resident of Zaporozhye organized a scheme for illegal enrichment, misleading persons who wanted to use the services of the Territorial Service Center (TCC) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The attacker impersonated an employee of a state institution, causing her reputational losses.
Employees of the Territorial Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the city of Zaporizhia appealed to law enforcement officers with a complaint about persons who rented part of the wing of the floor in the same room. Persons posing as representatives of the service center misled customers of the departmental institution. In particular, the attackers, the so-called runners, took the coupons from the electronic queue terminal, which artificially created problems for the prompt entry of persons to the offices of the CCC. And those wishing to solve the issue in a simplified version were offered to use the services of a “separate” employee.
A 48-year-old woman in a neighboring office assured customers that the service center is overflowing with citizens' appeals, queues can drag on for a long time, but if a certain fee is provided for interested CCP employees, there is an express option.
To convince them of belonging to a state institution, the accomplices even decorated the rented part of the room in the same colors as the CCC, and hung thematic advertising information. In addition, to pay the specified amount, the client was issued a receipt to the bank, so that everything looked official.
As part of the protection of the system, employees of the Zaporizhzhya Department of the FIB of NPU and the Zaporizhzhia police documented the receipt of funds by the exposed participant, which she promised to transfer to the officials of the CCC. In the offices of the exposed fake company, police officers, under the procedural guidance of the Dnieper District Prosecutor's Office of Zaporizhzhia, conducted sanctioned searches and seized draft records and cash in various currencies totaling more than 53,000 hryvnias.
At present, the investigators of the Zaporizhzhya district police department are preparing the surrender of suspicion to the 48-year-old defendant under Part 3 of Article 369-2 (Abuse of influence) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. If proven guilty, she faces punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of three to eight years with confiscation of property. Further investigative actions are underway to identify and bring to justice the accomplices of the scammer.
Department of Homeland Security
National Police of Ukraine
