A bank employee is suspected of embezzling half a million hryvnias from the accounts of deceased clients.
A bank employee is suspected of embezzling half a million hryvnias from the accounts of deceased clients.
«Having information about bank clients who died, the woman changed the data of the deceased in financial systems and transferred money to her own accounts,» reports the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
The woman is currently under suspicion on a number of charges, the sanctions of which include up to five years in prison.
In particular, the police established that during 2020-2021, a bank employee accessed the accounts of clients of a financial institution who had already died from her work computer and changed the financial phone numbers tied to the accounts to controlled ones.
The defendant subsequently initiated transfers of funds to her own accounts and bank cards.
During a search of the residence of the 35-year-old suspect in the case, law enforcement officers seized computer equipment, bank cards, and draft notes.
In addition, law enforcement officers established that since 2020, the suspect has worked at five different banks.
As dev.ua wrote, the National Police is warning about three new fraudulent schemes, in particular in Telegram, using artificial intelligence.
