[ad_1]
Seven men were sent to trial by the prosecutors of the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the 2nd District Court of Bucharest, accused of defrauding several elderly people, by the “Covid” method, the old “Accident” method.
According to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the 2nd District Court of Bucharest, cited by Mediafax, the prosecutors ordered the prosecution of seven defendants investigated in preventive detention under the aspect of the commission of the crimes of fraud and complicity in fraud.
Two of the seven defendants were imprisoned in the same cell in a maximum security penitentiary in Bucharest, having been previously investigated and tried for committing similar acts.
According to prosecutors, the group specialized in committing crimes of deception through the COVID method, the old “accidental” method.
Some of its members have acquired specialization, two of the accused, in 2018 being sent to trial under the aspect of committing the crime of deception
The two defendants in prison, using a small mobile phone, called landlines at random and told the victims that they were relatives or acquaintances and that they had been diagnosed with Covid, while hospitalized.
Subsequently, the presence of the injured person, the unreal situation in which their health is very serious, with the lungs affected in a large proportion (80%), is likely to create a state of panic generated by the possibility of death of the person . and claimed that the only way to stay alive is to connect to a ventilator, only that the medical unit does not have a ventilator to connect to, or that it can only be connected after a long period of time. of time. He then presented a solution, in the sense of personally buying the ventilation device, on which occasion he specified that it costs between 6,000 – 15,000 euros and asked the injured to communicate the amounts of money he has (savings, funeral money, jewelry, money ). bank accounts) and what it can offer ”, is shown in the statement of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The injured are usually over 70 years old.
In addition, if the victim had a greater amount of money (he waived to continue with the process of effectively obtaining the sums of money when the victim had amounts less than about 1,000 euros), the call was answered by another defendant, who was recommended as employee of the health insurance company / medical staff and, under the pretext of entering into a contract with the health insurance company for the purchase of the medical device, obtained from the injured person the identification data, as well as their address. The address of the injured person was then sent by text message to a released defendant, who went to the injured person’s home in order to withdraw the amount of money. While the accomplices went home, the victim stayed on the phone, and in case they were late, they asked him, to take some time, to dictate the series of bills, “state prosecutors.
A defendant had the function of keeping in touch with the perpetrators in the penitentiary center, so, every morning, he wondered if they started or continued criminal activity, sending them text messages about it.
Likewise, to ensure a quick trip to the addresses, a taxi driver also became involved in the criminal activity, occasionally transporting them or willing to transport his accomplices to the addresses where he would collect the money or take half of it. of the proceeds of crime in Constanza, where the wife of one of the accused lives.
Publisher: AA
