The person involved in the social network was selling non-existent goods, for which he required a full subscription. The damage caused to the victims reaches 100,000 hryvnia. Police exposed the man's criminal activities in the summer. Hiding from law enforcement agencies, the man continued to engage in fraud. Now he is taken into custody, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs specifies.
Cyber police officers, together with investigators from the Central Police Department of the Donetsk region, under the procedural guidance of the Mariupol local prosecutor's office No. 1, exposed a 22-year-old resident of Donetsk region of fraud.
It has been established that since 2019 the young man has used a profile on a social network, where he offered women's shoes for sale. The main condition was a one hundred percent prepayment to the bank card of the person involved.
After receiving money from buyers, the offender disappeared. Thus, he took possession of the money of more than a hundred victims. According to preliminary data, losses amount to UAH 100,000.
In the summer of 2020, the attacker was declared suspicious of an offense under Part 3 of Art. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and a preventive measure was chosen - a personal obligation.
However, the young man continued his criminal activities, hiding from the law enforcement agencies.
Currently, he is detained under Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention.
The maximum punishment that a suspect faces is imprisonment for up to eight years.
Now the pre-trial investigation on new facts of the commission of criminal offenses continues.
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Cyber police officers, together with investigators from the Central Police Department of the Donetsk region, under the procedural guidance of the Mariupol local prosecutor's office No. 1, exposed a 22-year-old resident of Donetsk region of fraud.
It has been established that since 2019 the young man has used a profile on a social network, where he offered women's shoes for sale. The main condition was a one hundred percent prepayment to the bank card of the person involved.
After receiving money from buyers, the offender disappeared. Thus, he took possession of the money of more than a hundred victims. According to preliminary data, losses amount to UAH 100,000.
In the summer of 2020, the attacker was declared suspicious of an offense under Part 3 of Art. 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and a preventive measure was chosen - a personal obligation.
However, the young man continued his criminal activities, hiding from the law enforcement agencies.
Currently, he is detained under Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention.
The maximum punishment that a suspect faces is imprisonment for up to eight years.
Now the pre-trial investigation on new facts of the commission of criminal offenses continues.
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