A criminal case has been submitted to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on the theft of money from a bank account, the investigation of which began in the Tomsk region. Details of the case are given in the message of the department.
According to preliminary data, a resident of the city of Seversk, Tomsk Region, who had a criminal record, stole money belonging to the latter from an account opened in one of the banks of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War from August 2019 to February 2020. The amount of the stolen is not specified, however, it is known that the fraudster took advantage of a bank client error: as follows from the release of the Investigative Committee, the victim indicated the wrong number in the phone number to link it with the bank card. The erroneously indicated number turned out to be the number of the accused, who took advantage of the situation by starting by sending SMS messages to transfer money from the victim’s card to his mobile phone and a bank card attached to it.
The suspect is detained and charged. The court chose a preventive measure in respect of the detainee in the form of detention.
Currently, investigative steps are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the incident. The criminal investigation is ongoing.