ArmInfo.A gang of scammers profited from the use of passport data of other people without their knowledge.
According to the press service of the UK, in the framework of this case, 15 were injured. persons. As it turned out, a resident of Yerevan and his daughter called the announcements about the sale of cell phones made an appointment and her father paid for it with fake Russian rubles.
Moreover, in collusion with the residents of Yeghegnadzor and Echmiadzin, he developed a cunning scheme. They bought expensive household appliances from passports of unsuspecting people on credit and resold them. The accomplices shared all the profit in half. A passport group of fraudsters was provided by a resident of Yeghegnadzor, who worked for a telecommunications company and had access to a database. The latter also, in parts, appropriated the funds of this company in the total amount of 889 thousand drams, and the equipment intended for sale in the amount of 2.9 million. The total damage caused to people and companies suffered from fraudsters amounted to 21 million 621 thousand drams. These persons have been charged under the relevant articles of the RA Criminal Code. In respect of a resident of Yeghegnadzra, arrest was chosen as a preventive measure, and in respect of other defendants, a recognizance not to leave was chosen.