Quick police response reveals an accomplice in a phone fraud in Plovdiv

The intensive investigation into the case began at the Third Police Department on June 5, after receiving information that a over 90-year-old resident of Plovdiv had become a victim of a telephone scam. The woman reported that 10,000 levs had been taken from her under the scheme for requesting money for urgent treatment of a close relative. In the course of the expedited pre-trial proceedings under Art. 209, para. 1 of the Penal Code, together with employees from the "Criminal Police" department, after a precise analysis of the initial evidence, the identity of the 52-year-old man involved in receiving the amount became clear. On Friday, he was arrested, and the case materials were reported to the District Prosecutor's Office - Plovdiv. By a decree of the prosecuting prosecutor, the man has been charged as a defendant, and the term of his detention has been extended to 72 hours.