A bank manager and his wig-wearing “assistants” stole $169,000 from a customer’s account
4 June 2024 12:14
In Kyiv, the head of a bank branch together with his accomplices withdrew USD 169,000 from a client’s account. The defendants were served with a notice of suspicion. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
According to the investigation, the suspect, as the head of a branch of a state-owned bank, had access to the software and client base of the financial institution. He monitored accounts with significant amounts of money, but the owners had not used them for a long time.
“In May 2023, the head of the bank’s branch became interested in one of the client’s accounts worth almost USD 169 thousand. He copied all the account details, passport and personal data of the client and passed the information to two accomplices – a man and a woman,”
– the statement said.
The accomplices produced, among other things, a fake passport in the name of the account holder, which was pasted with a photo of the fraud’s accomplice. Later, wearing a wig and glasses with forged documents, she changed her financial phone number at a bank branch after passing the customer verification procedure.
Having gained access to the foreign currency account, the suspects converted USD 169,000 into hryvnias and transferred almost UAH 6.2 million to a hryvnia card account they had opened the same day.
After that, the accomplices partially withdrew the cash and purchased gold jewellery worth almost UAH 6.2 million.
During the searches, the police seized women’s wigs, glasses, phones, bank cards, copies of passports of customers from the bank’s database, jewellery, USD 12,700 and UAH 40,500. The officers also seized cars INFINITI FX35, BMW I3 and LEXUS LX 470.
The issue of choosing a measure of restraint against the suspects is currently being decided.
In addition, the involvement of the accomplices in the misappropriation of funds of other bank customers in the amount of more than USD 250 thousand is being checked. They tried to transfer almost USD 110 thousand and EUR 7 thousand to their own accounts.
