In the North Kazakhstan region, an investigation into a remote fraud case has concluded with a guilty verdict. According to infohub.kz, the scammers called a resident of Petropavlovsk, posing as bank employees, and claimed that unauthorized individuals had gained access to his accounts. Under the pretext of protecting his funds, they convinced the man to take out a loan and transfer the money to a specified account.
Subsequently, one of the scheme's participants in Pavlodar withdrew 2 million 860 thousand tenge belonging to the victim from an ATM. He converted the stolen funds into cryptocurrency, keeping a portion as his reward. To avoid detection, he concealed his face with a medical mask and a cap at the ATM.
However, these tricks did not help. During the investigation, police identified the suspect—a 21-year-old resident of the Pavlodar region. The court established that he deliberately acted as a so-called "cash-out" agent. The sentence, announced in late May, was mitigated due to an amnesty—the defendant was sentenced to one year of restricted freedom. Additionally, the court ordered him to compensate the victim for damages amounting to 2 million 790 thousand tenge. The verdict has entered into legal force.