A court in Russia has refused to recover funds from a woman that were stolen by fraudsters from another victim. The scammers had taken out a loan in the victim's name and transferred the money through an account registered under the woman's details in the Unified TsUPIS system.
The prosecutor demanded that the amount be recovered from the defendant, but the Leninogorsk City Court dismissed the claim. The Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld this decision, rejecting the prosecutor's appeal.
The court concluded that there was no evidence that the defendant had control over the stolen funds, and that her personal information could have been misused by outsiders.
According to case materials, the fraudsters posed as buyers of furniture on Avito, tricking the victim into providing SMS codes. They gained access to her Sberbank account and issued a credit card in her name. Subsequently, they transferred 146,050 rubles (approximately $1,760) to an account in the Unified TsUPIS, registered under another woman's details, and placed bets with a bookmaker using this balance. The winnings were then withdrawn to cards from Alfa-Bank and Rosselkhozbank. The identification in TsUPIS was completed using her personal data submitted through the FONBET website, but the phone number did not belong to her, and the withdrawal cards were not issued in her name, nor did she have accounts in those banks.