Criminal investigators detained a 36-year-old resident of Legnica suspected of a series of frauds. The arrest took place on January 24. That day, the man also tried to extort money from an 83-year-old resident of Jelenia Góra and a 73-year-old woman from Jelenia Góra. Fortunately, the seniors realized that this could be an attempted fraud and notified the police.
The criminal was caught by the police on one of the streets of Jelenia Góra. He had a case bearing police symbols with him.
As established, in January this year the suspect committed a series of frauds against seniors in Jelenia Góra, Szklarska Poręba and other cities in Poland.
How did the fraudster operate?
The 36-year-old called the victims on their landline phones and claimed to be a police officer. During the conversation, he informed them that an investigation was under way involving employees of the bank where the seniors kept their money. The alleged investigation was intended to dismantle a criminal group involved in fraud.
The fraudster ordered his victims to withdraw all their cash and hand it over to him. In this way, the man from Legnica defrauded at least nine people from various cities in Lower Silesia, and even from Giżycko, of tens of thousands of złoty.
On January 26, at the prosecutor's request, the court temporarily remanded the suspect in custody for three months. The arrested man could now face a sentence of between six months and as many as eight years in prison.