For several months now, the Provincial Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria, Fraud Investigation Unit, has been investigating an international group of perpetrators who mainly contact elderly people by telephone, pretending to be police/criminal investigators and enticing the victims to hand over cash, jewellery and valuables to alleged police officers (collectors) for safekeeping.
In the course of these investigations, a Turkish citizen (39) living in Vienna was investigated and an arrest warrant was obtained by the Eisenstadt Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The accused is strongly suspected of having taken cash, gold and jewellery with a total value of 267,500 euros from victims at four scenes of crime in the provinces of Lower Austria (Perchtoldsdorf and Brunn am Gebirge) and Vienna in the period from July 28, 2021 to August 24, 2021.
On September 28, 2021, the arrest warrant of the public prosecutor’s office Eisenstadt as well as a search at the residential address of the accused in Vienna was conducted by the Provincial Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria, Fraud Investigation Unit, together with forces of the Task Force for Combating Street Crime (EGS) of the Provincial Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria.
The accused is not confessing and was committed to Eisenstadt Prison by order of the Eisenstadt Public Prosecutor’s Office. Further investigations are underway.
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