– He used his accounts to launder money from unknown sources
A man from Horgen got in touch with the wrong people via Facebook. They got him involved in money laundering.
Published today at 11:30 am
A man found fake lenders on Facebook who tricked him into committing a crime.
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You can’t just find friends on social media. You can also quickly meet the wrong people, as a 42-year-old man from Horgen discovered.
In 2022, he was offered a loan of 20,000 francs via a contact on the Facebook platform. Since the 42-year-old could not afford the required advance payment of 900 francs, the lenders made him an immoral offer. He was asked to receive funds in his private account and then forward them. At the same time, they promised the man that he would receive two to ten percent of the respective amount as compensation.
Suspicious, the 42-year-old asked where the money came from. However, he did not receive a plausible answer. Instead, he was asked to open two accounts for the money he received. Although the man became suspicious, he followed the instructions of the unknown perpetrators, as can be seen from the penal order issued by the Limmattal/Albis public prosecutor’s office.
As a result, eight different people transferred a total of around 5,000 francs to him. This money was advance payments for wood pellets, wood sterilisation and a vacuum cleaner. All goods that the victims had ordered via Facebook and paid for in advance – but never received. The account holder forwarded the payments to a foreign account, as he was told.
In doing so, he helped conceal the origin of the money and, according to the penal order, was guilty of money laundering. The public prosecutor’s office punished him with a conditional fine of 100 daily rates of 80 francs each. This corresponds to 8,000 francs, which he only has to pay if he commits an offense in the next two years. However, he cannot avoid a fine of 1,600 francs.
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LoginDorothea Uckelmann is an editor in the Lake Zurich Region department and mainly reports on politics, justice and real estate. More information
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