Overview
- Police say callers posing as officials misled the man with claims about a required “declaration of funds.”
- The victim handed over his savings to couriers, reporting the crime on November 5 to Vyborgsky district police.
- Investigators registered the case under Part 4 of Article 159, which covers major fraud, and continue to search for suspects.
- The victim is an 80-year-old resident of a building on Poetichesky Boulevard in St. Petersburg, according to the police account.
- In a separate case reported November 7, an emergency services source said another pensioner lost 21.7 million rubles over three handoffs, and prosecutors are establishing the circumstances.