The first victim was the former head of the intelligence department of the USSR General Staff, 91-year-old Vladimir Vilyukov. He received a call from a stranger, allegedly from the Pension Fund of Russia, who convinced the rear admiral that the banknotes he kept at home needed to be replaced with new ones. On May 10, a fraudster came to his home on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya and took 1.6 million rubles. At the intelligence officer’s house, the guest was puffing and clutching her stomach, saying that she was forced to work while in a position. She hid her face behind a medical mask. Vladimir Vilyukov took a long time to decide, fearing that his colleagues would laugh, but the other day he finally came to the police to write a statement.
The second episode happened on June 6 on the same street, only in a different house. The divorce followed almost the same pattern. The victim, the same age as the rear admiral, did not agree to the exchange of banknotes. But the “pension fund employee” somehow managed to convince the grandmother to hide the money from the hiding place under the pillow. After that, the swindler, still in the same image – in a mask and with a belly, visited the Muscovite. But, under a different pretext, supposedly to check the state of communications. She lured the owner of the apartment into the kitchen, where she diverted her attention by instructing her to empty the oven of dishes. And at that time she stole 350 thousand rubles and 2,300 dollars from under the pillow.
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