According to the investigators, the accused had illegally obtained nearly 150 loans, having thus stolen more than 8 million rubles from the credit institutions.

“Employees of the Investigation Unit of the General Investigation Administration of the Russian MIA General Administration for the Krasnodar Territory have accomplished the investigation of the criminal case initiated against seven residents of the Kavkazsky and Novopokrovsky Districts of the Krasnodar Territory based on essential elements of a crime stipulated by Part 4 Article 159 and Part 1 Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” said Russian MIA official representative Irina Volk.

Criminal investigation policemen of the Russian MIA General Administration for the Krasnodar Territory received information about a 44-year old resident of village Novopokrovskaya involved in unlawful activities. In the course of the check, that information was confirmed.

Having implemented a complex of special-purpose measures, policemen established that not only the inspected man had been involved in a series of property crimes, but also six other citizens. All of them were detained.

According to the investigators, the gang had been organized by a 46-year old resident of the Novopokrovsky District who had then involved residents of the Kavkazsky and Novopokrovsky Districts aged from 23 to 46 into it. They had developed and jointly implemented a scheme, using which they had obtained consumer loans in dummies' names for 8 months and received that money. One of the gang members had found scanned copies of passports of residents of the Krasnodar Territory. Another one, using a software program, had changed personal data in the owners' passports. Then, two of the accused men, who had been agents in the banks as of the moment of the unlawful actions, had made credit files for nonexistent people, obtained approvals for consumer loans and, involving other gang members, had got the money into the accounts of retail stores' owners. That organized group had thus perpetrated 147 money thefts from two credit institutions for a total amount of over 8 million rubles. They used the obtained money at their own discretion.

By the moment, two of the gang members have been remanded in custody; the others have been put under house arrest and have given written undertaking not to leave. The materials of the criminal case have been sent to the Novopokrovsky District Court for consideration on the merits.