By Presenting themselves on Facebook Using Fake Personal Accounts, Money in Large Amount Stolen from a Number of Individuals, Money Laundering Committed: Preliminary Investigation Completed with respect to one Individual
As a result of evidentiary and procedural actions conducted in the Department for Investigation of Cybercrime and High Technology Crime of General Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee it was found out that between February, 2021 and March, 2024 V.S. and D.G. created fake personal accounts on Facebook with photos of compatriots living mainly in the US, through which they presented themselves to the friends and relatives of those individuals and demanded money under various pretexts.
As a result, V.S. and D.G. stole a total of 686 thousand 320 AMD received on the bank cards and electronic wallets created by them in advance.
Besides, between 2021 and 2023 V.S. and D.G. reaching prior agreement on distorting the procurement source of the property in particularly large amount, to give that property a legal appearance, and to avoid criminal liability for the embezzlement they had committed, committed money laundering in particularly large amount - 10 million 542 thousand 500 AMD.
Public criminal prosecution was initiated against V.S. according to the Points 1 and 3 of the Part 2 of the Article 255 and the Point 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 296 of RA Criminal Code.
The criminal proceeding with respect of the latter with the bill of indictment was sent to the prosecutor.
