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An entrepreneur from Yoshkar-Ola stole more than 51 million rubles from a bank
The Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Yoshkar-Ola (Mari El) opened a criminal case against a local resident for fraud with bank funds.
“It was established that a few days ago a Yoshkar-Ola businesswoman fraudulently transferred more than 51 million rubles belonging to one of the banks to her account using a payment card. Of this amount, 1 million 700 thousand rubles were cashed out at several ATMs,” reports the report. Thursday press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Mari El.
After this, the woman’s card was blocked by bank employees, who contacted the police, and the attacker herself was detained.
“It has now been established that she managed to spend the cashed money to pay off loan debts,” the report says.
A criminal case has been initiated against her under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).