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Cyber police have exposed a 55-year-old resident of the Kyiv region suspected of large-scale fraud involving foreigners' bank cards,
the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine reported.
According to law enforcement, the man used a fake passport and a POS terminal to misappropriate funds from citizens of Singapore and Hong Kong.
The investigation established that the fraudster pasted his own photo into someone else's passport and then registered a fictitious hotel company in a city in the Khmelnytskyi region. He then rented premises, opened a bank account, and installed an ATM.
According to the cyber police, the suspect subsequently obtained the foreigners' bank card details from unidentified individuals and used the rented POS terminal to conduct transactions totaling over 2.3 million hryvnias.
The financial institution detected the suspicious transactions and blocked approximately 700,000 hryvnias. At the same time, the man managed to withdraw over 1.6 million hryvnias from ATMs and transfer them to other accounts.
Cyber police and investigators from the Khmelnytskyi Oblast police, under the procedural guidance of the district prosecutor's office, charged the man with fraud under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine reported.
According to law enforcement, the man used a fake passport and a POS terminal to misappropriate funds from citizens of Singapore and Hong Kong.
The investigation established that the fraudster pasted his own photo into someone else's passport and then registered a fictitious hotel company in a city in the Khmelnytskyi region. He then rented premises, opened a bank account, and installed an ATM.
According to the cyber police, the suspect subsequently obtained the foreigners' bank card details from unidentified individuals and used the rented POS terminal to conduct transactions totaling over 2.3 million hryvnias.
The financial institution detected the suspicious transactions and blocked approximately 700,000 hryvnias. At the same time, the man managed to withdraw over 1.6 million hryvnias from ATMs and transfer them to other accounts.
Cyber police and investigators from the Khmelnytskyi Oblast police, under the procedural guidance of the district prosecutor's office, charged the man with fraud under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.