A 73-year-old woman reported to the police on May 26, 2020, that a man had stolen 9 million forints from her the day before. The reporter told police that her phone rang around 7 pm on the 25th. At the other end of the line, someone introduced themselves as their granddaughter and told the elderly woman that she had an accident, so she urgently needs 2.7 million forints as she has to pay for the damage to the other driver. The alleged grandson specifically drew the woman’s attention to the fact that she can’t go for the money now, so she sends a friend for it. The victim believed the caller and handed the requested amount to an unknown man.
According to the investigation, this was not enough for the fraudsters. Seeing that they had managed to mislead their victim, they called her again and the “grandson” asked her for another 6.3 million forints. The woman did the same, giving a total of 9 million forints to a man unknown to her, thinking that she would help her grandson in trouble. It was not until hours later that the victim realized that she had been deceived.
The detectives of Hajdúszoboszló and the staff of the Hajdú-Bihar County Police Headquarters began to search for the perpetrators with great force. A 16-year-old girl from Jászfényszaru and a 20-year-old couple, as well as a 19-year-old young woman from Hatvan, soon came to the attention of the police.
As part of concerted action, they were arrested early on the evening of 28 May 2020, and, following their interrogation of the suspect, the man and two of his companions were held in criminal custody.
There were also suspicions that the suspects had committed fraud across the country, and it also turned out that they had a helper in the past. The police pay special attention to the fight against cheating fraud. Nationwide, police stations are working closely together to curb such and similar crimes. As a result, Zala County police arrested the fourth accomplice of the alleged perpetrators in Zalaegerszeg in one day. Hajdú-Bihar police officers detained him in criminal custody, and on 31 May 2020, the Debrecen District Court ordered the arrest of all four suspects. The Hajdúszoboszló Police Headquarters prosecuted them for a well-founded suspicion of fraud. The investigators carried out the necessary procedural steps and sent the resulting documents to the competent prosecutor’s office.
The police place great emphasis on the seizure of values obtained through crime, the seizure of valuables accumulated by criminals. During the property recovery procedure, the investigators of Hajdúszoboszló mapped the financial situation of the perpetrators and their environment, the time of their enrichment, their spending habits, and their cash flow. After that, cash, jewelry, 5 cars were seized from the suspects, and a property was also locked up.
The police are asking the families of the elderly, their direct acquaintances, to draw the attention of their relatives to stories and methods of crime similar to the above!
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