Representatives of the press service of the Main The departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow told Lenta.ru that a local 78-year-old pensioner transferred 25 million rubles to telephone scammers, but the police managed to catch the accomplice of the attackers.
It is noted that the criminals misled the elderly woman , and on their instructions, she went to the bank, where she withdrew her savings in foreign currency from her account. The department clarified that she transferred the funds received to a woman who was in cahoots with the scammers.
After the pensioner realized that she had been deceived, she contacted law enforcement agencies with a statement of fraud. The capital's headquarters added that operatives of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Sokol district quickly identified the suspect, who was detained at the railway station in Rostov-on-Don.
The detained 58-year-old woman became a defendant in a criminal case case, and with the sanction of the court she was placed under house arrest. At the moment, the investigation is finding out the identities of her accomplices.