In Murashi, a courier for scammers who had arrived to collect a million rubles from a pensioner was detained.

      In Murashi, police and Rosgvardiya officers detained a courier for telephone scammers who had come at night to the home of a 72-year-old pensioner to collect another sum of money. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Kirov Region.

      As police established, in mid-October an unknown woman called the man on his landline and told him that his service contract was supposedly about to expire. To renew it she required his SNILS, which the pensioner then recited. Later another woman called, introducing herself as a "justice adviser." She warned that the previous call had been from scammers who had obtained his personal data, and that he now faced the loss of all his savings.

      A man then joined the conversation, calling himself an employee of the security service. He persuaded the pensioner to act "according to instructions from the Central Bank": withdraw money from his accounts, hide it in unneeded items and hand it over to a "courier" who would give a code word. In this way the man handed over 2.7 million rubles to the criminals.

      Using the same scheme, the pensioner twice traveled to Kirov, where through a transport company he sent another 2 million rubles to Novosibirsk.

      When relatives learned what was happening, they contacted the police. The investigative department of the Murashinsky municipal division of the Russian Interior Ministry opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on a particularly large scale).

      Despite this, the perpetrators continued trying to take the pensioner's remaining one million rubles and sent him a new "courier." At night the man heard a knock at the door and, frightened, called the investigator who had given him his number. The information was passed to a nearby Rosgvardiya patrol. The courier was detained.

      He turned out to be a 25-year-old resident of Murmansk. According to him, he believed he was working "on assignment from law enforcement agencies" and traveled to regions collecting money from pensioners. The young man was detained under Article 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation; his involvement in other incidents is being investigated.

      The Interior Ministry noted the professionalism of the Rosgvardiya officers, thanks to whom the suspect was detained.

      The police again remind: agency officials do not make calls and do not ask citizens to hand over or transfer money. If you receive a suspicious call, end the conversation and contact the police.