Слідчі дії у фігурантів справи / Львівська обласна прокуратура
Using access to closed automated systems, bank branch managers in the Lviv region reissued customers’ cards and withdrew money from them.
Cyberpolice, regional prosecutor’s office, and SBU in the Lviv region exposed a criminal group that, using the possible presence of clients in the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia, appropriated their money. The branch manager created a scheme to reissue bank cards without the consent and knowledge of the owners. He involved heads of the retail business sector and the cash operations sector in this activity.
During 2023–2024, the suspects reissued about fifty customer cards. Money was appropriated using self-service terminals and Pos-terminals at the bank branch. Law enforcement agencies established the amount of damage caused over 5 million UAH.
“The organizer of the scheme, the executor, and the accomplice have been notified of suspicions under part 3, part 5 of article 27; part 3 of article 28, part 1, 3 of article 362 (Unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computing machines (computers), automated systems, computer networks, or stored on media of such information, committed by a person who has access rights to it) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. They face up to 6 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years,” — reports the police.
As a result of searches of the suspects’ residences, law enforcement officers seized mobile phones, bank cards, and records with confidential client information used to commit thefts. Currently, preventive measures have been chosen for the suspects, and the investigation is ongoing. The police note cooperation in uncovering the crime with the bank’s security department.
Sources: Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, National Police of Ukraine