In Dzerzhinsk, law enforcement arrested a 16-year-old student who took large sums from local pensioners and handed him over to scammers. This was reported by Telegram channel Ni Mash.
The crime came to light when the relatives of one of the victims applied to the police. The pensioner said that after calls from unknown persons, he gave more than half a million rubles to a courier, a young boy with blond hair.
Soon after, law enforcement identified the teenager. He turned out to be a first-year student of an industrial-trade technical school.
Thereupon, the security forces detained the young person in the educational institution building. Now the teenager is under house arrest.
Earlier it was learned that he was a resident of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsk, Irkutsk region. committed suicide because of scammers who stole a million from him when buying an apartment, and a series of personal tragedies.