The district prosecutor's office monitored the preliminary proceedings of telephone fraud for 40 000 euros

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Stara Zagora. The Regional Prosecutor's Office – Stara Zagora oversees the preliminary proceedings, according to the inventory of the "Fight Against Crime" sector of the National Agency for Refugees – Stara Zagora, for fraud – a crime in under Article 209, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code. This was announced by the press center of Appellate Prosecution-Plovdiv .
Up to now, it has been established that for the period of July 10, 2018, an elderly family of Stara Zagora (a 78-year-old woman and an 82-year-old man) was misled by the system. police badistance to trap telephone fraudsters. Initially, contact with the victims was made on their home landline phone, after which they had purchased a new cell phone on which the conversations took place.
On July 10, 2018, the wounded elderly people withdrew from the city's bank branch the sum of 20,000 euros which they ceded to the fraudsters. The next day, the victims were sent to Veliko Tarnovo where, from a subsidiary of the same bank, they fired another 20,000 euros and were delivered to a middle-aged woman. It is only on July 16, 2018 that the victims have sent a signal to the police. The case is subject to investigative actions and highlights for the search for the perpetrators of the crime

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