“Officers of the MIA K Administration together with colleagues from the K Division of the MIA General Administration for the Rostov Region suppressed the activities of an organized group whose members are suspected of stealing money from bank accounts intended for collection of charitable funds for the treatment of severely ill,” said the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

The police found that two residents of the city of Volgodonsk in the Rostov Region found in social networks information on bank accounts established for the collection of charitable funds for the treatment of seriously ill people, including those suffering from cancer.

Using fake documents, the offenders gained access to the subscriber's mobile phone number associated with the bank account, got illegal access to on-line banking services, and then stole money.

Operatives established the involvement of these persons in more than a dozen of such thefts, which totaled 20 million rubles.

As a result of malicious acts of the offenders, there died a 33-year-old woman, a resident of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, whose money intended to pay for an expensive operation had been stolen.

The members of the criminal group were detained. During the search the police seized from them 6 laptops, 3 desk PCs, 15 mobile phones, dozens of bank cards and SIM cards of different mobile operators, as well as a forged passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

There was initiated a criminal case on the grounds of an offense stipulated by the RF Criminal Code Article 159 “Fraud”. In respect of active participants of the criminal group, two residents of the city of Volgodonsk, born in 1987 and 1989, a preventive measure in the form of placement to custody was selected.