“The Investigative Committee of the Volodymyr region opened a criminal case under the article on intentional damage to someone else’s property by arson”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Sokolov urged residents to be “very attentive” to all calls and messages, “the content of which is a demand to perform some illegal actions on the instructions of the interlocutor.”
The Investigative Committee of the Volodymyr Oblast initiated a criminal case under the article on intentional damage to someone else’s property by arson (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the calculations of the “Mediazon” publication on the evening of December 24, since December 13, Russians have attacked banks, police cars and other objects at least 50 times under the influence of telephone fraudsters. Most of the attacks occurred on December 20 and 21. At least six of those arrested for arson were charged with terrorism, and another eleven were charged with malicious damage to property. This is the largest wave of attacks under the influence of fraudsters, the publication notes. The previous major wave of attacks occurred between July 29 and August 3, 2023, when 37 arsons were set.
After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, telephone scammers en masse convinced Russians to set fire to military headquarters, banks and administrative buildings. In all such cases, fraudsters act in approximately the same way: they contact elderly or socially vulnerable people by phone, posing as employees of the bank or special services. In conversation, they convince people to transfer money to them, and then offer to set fire to some object in exchange for the return of the stolen item. The FSB claimed that fraudsters “in most cases” work from the territory of Ukraine.