Fraudsters who cheated the woman of money told her to tie them to road signs

The Vilkaviškis Chamber of the Marijampole District Court examined a criminal case in which five defendants fraudulently embezzled almost 20,000 from the victim. euros.

The Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Office informed about this in a press release.

The pre-trial investigation was led by the prosecutor of the Kaunas District Marijampolė District Prosecutor’s Office. The pre-trial investigation was carried out by Marijampolė county VPK officers. It took four years to uncover the case.

According to the case data, five defendants – SB, AN, ZA, AR and KR – defrauded the victim of 19,810 euros. An unidentified person, who at that time had served his sentence in a prison, contacted the victim by phone and, introducing himself as a police officer, convinced the woman that her bank account was being used by fraudsters. All this happened in April 2019.

During the telephone conversation, the victim was told to take 2310 euros and tie it to the road sign “Vilkaviškis”. Three days later, the defendants convinced the woman that more money needed to be withdrawn in order to arrest the fraudsters allegedly using her account. The victim took 3,500 euros from the account and ordered another 14,000 euros to be withdrawn from the bank. euros. This time, residents of Vilkaviškis district municipality were instructed to tie their money to the road sign “Didieji Šelviai”.

The defendants organized the transfer and distribution of this money, divided into roles. Also, one defendant, while serving a prison sentence at the time, realized the illegally obtained money by ordering sports clothes for 1,000 euros.

The Vilkaviškis Chamber approved the sentence proposed by the prosecutor who supported the state prosecution. All five defendants were found guilty of fraud. SB was sentenced to two years and six months of imprisonment, and when combined with the previous sentence, he was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment. AR was sentenced to two years of imprisonment, KR to one year and two months of imprisonment, which, when combined with the existing sentence, will serve one year and eight months. Z. A and AN were given lighter sentences. ZA will be suspended for one year, while AN will be sentenced to one year and six months of imprisonment. They are both obliged to be at home from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., to work, and to register with the Employment Service when they are not working during the entire period of serving the sentence of restriction of liberty.

In the case, the victim’s civil claim for compensation of more than 16,500 euros for property damage was partially satisfied. The rest of the money was found during the search and will be returned to the victim after the verdict.