Law enforcement officers reported suspicion to four more members of a criminal organization operating on the territory of the Vinnitsa correctional colony. They were charged with participation in a criminal organization and fraud.
According to the investigation, the prisoner, while serving his sentence in the Vinnitsa correctional colony and maintaining the “thieves’ traditions,” received the status of the so-called “institution watcher.” He organized and set up a scheme to fraudulently seize funds from Ukrainian citizens from a correctional institution. Among the victims are also military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
By recruiting accomplices - current prisoners and those at large - the attackers coordinated the receipt of funds received from the work of the fraudulent call center.
Posing as employees of the security service of the central branch of one of the leading Ukrainian banks, they informed its clients that suspicious transactions had been carried out on their accounts, and therefore they were blocked.
Subsequently, cardholders “for security reasons” were asked to transfer all the money from their card to a virtual account supposedly specially created for it through a mobile application or bank terminals.
In fact, the money was transferred to the accounts of third parties obtained fraudulently by participants in the scheme.
