«Internet Fraud»
The increase in crimes related to the misappropriation of property or acquisition of property rights by deception or abuse of trust is due to the fact that recently, purchasing goods through various websites on the Global Network has gained wide popularity.
For example, in October of the current year, 23-year-old Ivan Sidorov (name and surname changed) paid the price for fraud against citizens. By means of the Global Network, he posted an advertisement on the website "Onliner.by" for the sale of a mobile phone, motorcycle boots, and spare parts for motorcycles of various brands.
Sidorov, with a single intent to misappropriate citizens' funds, for the purpose of unlawful gratuitous misappropriation of another's property by fraud, for mercenary motives, acting jointly and in concert with another person, using a stolen bank card, knowing for certain that he could not fulfill the obligations undertaken for the supply of the required goods, misled several citizens and misappropriated their funds totaling about five million (undenominated) Belarusian rubles.
During the court hearing, Ivan fully admitted his guilt in the committed act, compensated the deceived citizens for the damage in full by returning the amounts of stolen funds. Nevertheless, Sidorov was found guilty of committing a crime provided for by Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and, based on Part 2 of this article, was sentenced to a fine of 50 basic units, which amounts to 1050 (denominated) Belarusian rubles.
The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Vitebsk urges citizens to be vigilant and not to fall for dubious advertisements and announcements posted on the pages of Internet sites.
At the same time, we remind you that for misappropriation of
by fraud or abuse of trust is punishable by criminal liability with imprisonment for a term of up to ten years with confiscation of property.
Intern for the position of Assistant Prosecutor of the city of Vitebsk K. Matveeva