Moscow police detained a swindler, who stole 7 million when buying bitcoins – Bits Media

Law enforcement agencies of Moscow reported on the capture of a 28-year-old suspect in fraud. Under the guise of buying bitcoins, he deceived the victim on 7 million rubles.

How the investigators found, a previously convicted citizen met with a 26-year-old resident of Moscow for purchasing bitcoins in the amount 7 million rubles. The victim transferred cryptocurrency to the criminal’s wallet, who suggested waiting for notification of a successful BTC transfer, and in the meantime go to the exchange office, to check banknotes for authenticity. When they arrived, unknown persons broke into the exchanger, who brought the suspect out, they put him in a car and disappeared in an unknown direction.

Immediately after the incident, the girl reported to the police. Law enforcement agencies managed to find and detain the suspect. Now a criminal case has been filed against him under. 4 Art. 159 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud", and he himself was taken into custody. At the moment, we are establishing all the circumstances of the incident..

A similar situation happened
in December last year. Then the Muscovite sold bitcoins for 12 million rubles, but the bag with the money was stolen immediately after the transaction.