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March 10, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> In January and February, police arrested 42 persons recruited to make deliveries for phone scammers, Vasil \u0160uplak of the interior ministry’s criminal investigation unit told ONT<\/em> on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six foreigners, two women and two minors were among the arrested, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scammers also started using cab drivers to transport parcels with stolen cash, said Alaksandar Hildziuk, who heads one of Minsk’s police departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 11, the interior ministry said it opened 19 criminal cases on charges of phone fraud since the start of 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scammers usually persuaded their interlocutors to hand over large sums of money in exchange for absolving their family members from responsibility for the alleged traffic accidents, it said, noting that similar crimes were registered all over Belarus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The damage reportedly exceeded 200,000 rubels (about $62,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, police registered more than 85,000 crimes with every seventh linked to fraud, Andrej Kavalo\u016d of the interior ministry\u2019s cybercrime unit told journalists in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 10, Pozirk. In January and February, police arrested 42 persons recruited to make deliveries for phone scammers, Vasil \u0160uplak of the interior ministry’s criminal investigation unit told ONT on Saturday. Six foreigners, two women and two minors were among the arrested, he added. Scammers also started using cab drivers to transport parcels with stolen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71994,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-72018","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPolice crack down on phone scammers' delivery service \u2013 interior ministry | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 10, Pozirk. 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