In the Lviv region, a criminal group of bank employees who embezzled customer funds was exposed

In the Lviv region, law enforcement officers exposed an organized criminal group, which included bank employees. They misappropriated customer funds during 2023-2024 by gaining access to their accounts. About this reported National Police of Ukraine.

“Possessing the data of customers who could remain in the temporarily occupied territories, employees of the banking institution, on the instructions of the head of the branch, changed the financial numbers of citizens to controlled ones and reissued bank cards”, says the message.

In the future, members of the criminal group, having assigned roles, appropriated customer funds using self-service terminals or POS terminals located in the bank branch.

“It was established that in this way members of an organized criminal group gained access to about 50 accounts of citizens. The total amount of damages exceeds UAH 5 million”, said the law enforcement officers.

The organizer of the scheme, the executor and the accomplice were charged with suspicion under parts 3 and 5 of article 27, parts 3 and 1 of article 28, as well as parts 1 and 3 of article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which relate to unauthorized actions with information in electronic systems carried out by a person with access to such data.

For this, they face up to six years of imprisonment with an additional punishment in the form of a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities for a period of up to three years.