USKOK, the Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime, issued an indictment before the Zagreb County Court against 22 defendants for committing criminal offenses of a criminal association and fraud within the criminal association.
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The indictment is the first defendant charges that in the period from September to November 23 in Zagreb planned the commission of several criminal offenses of fraud and connected other defendants and other unknown persons into joint action as the aim of the action to obtain significant undue material benefit for themselves and others by falsely presenting to a large number of elderly people that police officers conducting an investigation against bank employees for placing in circulation counterfeit banknotes on their damage and that it is necessary because of the suspicion that they have counterfeit banknotes with them or on their bank account for the police officer to check the money and issue them a certificate with which they can exchange counterfeit money in FINA for real money.
At the same time, they were falsely presented with securing the gold jewelry they owned.
The realization of the planned activity was managed by the first defendant who gave instructions II to X to the defendants and the XXII defendants who, according to the described scenario, first called elderly people from call centers and posed as police officers working to protect their property.
After the invited persons believed them and discovered how much money and gold jewelry they owned, according to the instructions given to them by the first defendant personally or through the 2nd to the 9th defendants, the 9th defendant went to their addresses and the 11th to the 21st defendant using vehicles that are the first defendant previously provided for this purpose.
In the name of the alleged examination, they then took money and gold jewelry from the elderly and handed it over to the 1st defendant who, in accordance with their roles, shared it with each other.
In the manner described above, the defendants obtained unlawful material gain in the amount of EUR 89,1,045.005 to the detriment of 64 elderly persons. ■