Fraudsters who stole money from the participants of the SVO were detained in the Kaliningrad region.

The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia has suppressed the activities of a criminal group in the Kaliningrad region engaged in the theft of funds from its members. This was reported on December 27 in the UK's press service on the Telegram channel.

"The defendants, acting as part of a group of persons by prior agreement, guided by selfish motives, misled two men, convincing them, under the pretext of helping to collect documents for concluding contracts, to issue them notarized powers of attorney for the right to dispose and use property, including monetary payments to military personnel," the message says.

It is noted that with the received powers of attorney, the fraudsters gained access to military accounts, from which they stole more than 1 million rubles. Three residents of the region were charged with committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud").

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