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Law enforcement agencies detained a 37-year-old resident of the capital of Khakassia.The man is accused of collecting money from fellow countrymen to buy mining equipment, and then disappeared.
It all started when a 24-year-old citizen turned to the police of Abakan.He said that he gave an acquaintance 260,000 rubles to buy mining equipment, but never received the device.A little later, another resident of Abakan came to the police, who lost 330,000 rubles, which he handed over to a fellow countryman.Applications were filed by residents of the village of Zelenoe and the village of Kalinino, who lost 290,000 rubles and 580,000 rubles, respectively.The total damage amounted to over 1,4 million rubles.
Law enforcement on a case-by-case basisinitiated a case under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud on a large scale. It turned out that in all cases the same resident of Khakassia was exposed. A convicted 37-year-old Abakan resident was named as a suspect. Police say he tried to escape to another region, but was detained. The man is now in custody. Most of the stolen funds are considered spent.
Earlier it was reported that scammers defrauded a crypto investor from the Altai Territory of 1.6 million rubles.
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