Scammers swindled 95 million rubles and gold bars from a pensioner from St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg police are identifying the phone scammers who swindled more than 95 million rubles, including gold bars, from an elderly local resident.

This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city and Leningrad Region.

"It was preliminarily established that for several weeks, unknown individuals, posing as employees of various structures, under the pretext of the need to declare funds, convinced the man to hand over cash and gold bars to couriers. In total, the victim handed over more than 95 million rubles to the criminals, including cash and precious metals," the message says.

Based on the incident, the police of the Central District of the city opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

Source: TASS