Prosecutors have filed an indictment against four residents of Kharkiv for fraud committed in a prior conspiracy by a group of individuals using electronic computers. The group's organizer is also charged with legalization of property obtained by criminal means.
According to the investigation, an unemployed Kharkiv resident created a criminal group, to which he recruited three more people - two men and a woman. The accomplices organized a remote "healing" scheme through a popular TV show, introducing themselves under fictitious names as "clairvoyants."
Viewers were persuaded to transfer funds to controlled accounts for the performance of “rituals” that were supposed to treat serious illnesses, “remove damage,” and bring “healing.” The victims of the fraudulent scheme were citizens from various regions of Ukraine, including seriously ill people and their relatives.
The total amount of damage caused is almost 6 million hryvnias. The group members withdrew the money received from bank cards and distributed it among themselves. The accused face criminal liability under the articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on fraud and legalization of illegally obtained property.
