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Smolyanin faces criminal case for granting microloan to relative

April 14, 2023

In the Roslavl district of the Smolensk region, a previously convicted 20-year-old local resident faces a criminal case for fraudulent activities.

According to information from the press service of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Smolensk region, a man on the Internet issued a microloan in the amount of 30,000 rubles for his relative, using her documents, then spent the money at his discretion.

As a result of these actions, the victim, born in 1982, received a notification of a debt in the amount of more than 60,000 rubles. The citizen, realizing that she had not taken out any loans, filed a corresponding statement with the police.

Currently, the suspect faces 2 years in prison under the “Fraud” article.

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