České Budějovice – South Bohemian criminal investigators caught a man who fraudulently withdrew over a million crowns from foreign accounts in various banks. He used seven fake IDs and disguises. Police have accused the 40-year-old man of up to eight years in prison, according to Regional police spokeswoman Štěpánka Schwarzová.
South Bohemian criminal investigators caught a man who collected over a million CZK in several banks with fake documents and disguises. He faces up to eight years in prison.
A man from Prague was collecting money in different parts of the country. At the end of last year, criminal investigators recorded several cases in banks, not only in southern Bohemia, but also in Moravia. “The scenario was very similar. A man enters the bank who presents an identity card and asks for a cash withdrawal, most often from a company account to which he has false disposition rights due to a forged identity card.
From mid-November 2020 to mid-January this year, he was in more than ten South Bohemian banks. “He exchanged a beanie for a cap, a coat for a jacket. He even returned to the same bank twice in a row and took almost half a million crowns from a single bank,” said the Regional police spokesperson. In several cases, bank officials suspected the ID card was fake and did not issue the money.
The police managed to detain the man on March 18 in Rokycany in the Pilsen region and is held in custody. Forensic scientists do not rule out that there are other perpetrators in the case, with whom he shared the profit.
Source: CTK
