Man Arrested in St. Petersburg for 2.7M Ruble Scam
Moscow23 Oct. Investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Moscow City Department of Internal Affairs, together with colleagues from the Kosino-Ukhtomsky District OMON of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, destroyed a telecommunications node used by phone scammers and detained a 20-year-old previously convicted young man, reports the Moscow police channel on MAX.
Consensus
- A man was arrested in Saint Petersburg by police.
- The arrest occurred on October 14.
- The suspect was detained on Pulkovskaya Street.
- The suspect is a 46-year-old man from Orenbourg.
- The man was previously convicted.
- A woman reported being defrauded of 2.7 million rubles via a phone call.
- The victim is 81 years old.
- The incident involved a scam where the caller pretended to be a law enforcement officer.
- An investigation was launched and a criminal case was opened under the fraud statute.
- The suspect was taken to a police station.
Points of divergence
- A 33-year-old man from a neighboring country was arrested in Saint Petersburg after being wanted for nearly 11 years, linked to a stabbing in Kazakhstan and another incident in Omsk Oblast. — vesti
Coverage (7 sources)
- In St. Petersburg, a foreigner showed law enforcement what was in his bed and received a criminal case — Фонтанка
- In Moscow, a previously convicted assistant of fraudsters was detained — Вести
- In the Moscow region, a courier who took 1 million rubles from a deceived pensioner was detained — Вести
- In Moscow, a courier of fraudsters was detained who took 4 million rubles from a teenager — Вести
- In St. Petersburg, an alien who had been wanted for almost 11 years was caught — Вести
- Courier of scammers detained in St. Petersburg in case of theft of 2.7 million rubles - SPB Newspaper - St. Petersburg news — Gazeta.SPb
- In St. Petersburg, suspects in the case of theft of pharmaceutical products worth 152 million rubles were detained - SPB Newspaper - St. Petersburg news — Gazeta.SPb