Minsk resident took 70 thousand dollars from people deceived by scammers
Criminal investigation operatives detained a 32-year-old resident of the capital who helped phone scammers transfer money abroad, Minsk police report.
The man, on the instructions of his curator, collected large sums and, through an intermediary, converted them into cryptocurrency. The Minsk resident told police officers that he allegedly did not know about the criminal nature of his actions. He found unofficial part-time work online and thought he was providing services for buying digital currency for people who didn't know how to do it themselves.
According to preliminary information, within a few days the man completed at least nine assignments. Residents of Minsk and the surrounding area, aged 15 to 72, were deceived by phone scammers using the "water utility" scheme and lost over 85 thousand dollars in various currencies. These funds were left in hidden caches — for example, in a garbage can or behind garages in an industrial zone.
One of the scam victims was an eighth-grade student. At the request of fake law enforcement officers, he took his parents' money from home and went to Senitsa, where he received over 10 thousand dollars from another deceived peer, after which he put them in a bag at the agreed location and told his parents nothing for two days.
The man was detained.
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