A group of car scammers has been convicted in Vitebsk

A group of car scammers has been convicted in Vitebsk, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, Inna Gorbacheva. Two Vitebsk residents would look for cars to buy in the regional center, agree with their owners on installment payments, providing a promissory note as confirmation, conclude a car sale agreement, and then disappear. At the same time, the "buyers" would inform the unfortunate sellers about postponing payments due to a number of serious circumstances, gradually ignoring their calls. In this way, the scammers managed to defraud about 20 people.

The cars obtained were sold within the next few days after the "purchase" at a lower price, increasingly increasing the amount of debt obligations, which they never intended to fulfill. The Pervomaisky District Court of Vitebsk found the main defendant, born in 1992, guilty of misappropriating property by deceit (fraud), committed by a group of persons on a particularly large scale, and based on Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, sentenced him to 6 years and 6 months of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a penal colony under a reinforced regime with confiscation of property. His accomplice of the same age received 5 years and 6 months of imprisonment.