Almost 500,000 hryvnias were defrauded: the swindlers will appear in court in Kharkiv Oblast
Participants face up to 15 years in prison.
Investigators completed the pre-trial investigation and sent an indictment to the court against an organized criminal group that defrauded citizens under the guise of bank security officers.
This was reported by the press service of the police of the Kharkiv region.
Criminals called customers, received confidential information and transferred funds to their accounts. The total damages of the victims amounted to almost 500 thousand hryvnias.
Employees of the cyber police, together with the police of the Kharkiv region, exposed the criminals in February this year, thanks to the assistance of the security service of “PrivatBank”. Criminals committed fraud, deceiving people that their funds can be transferred to the accounts of online stores of the aggressor country. After gaining access to the victims' personal data, they took money from…
