{"id":498570,"date":"2025-11-26T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498570"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:35:30","slug":"minsk-used-car-reseller-accused-of-large-scale-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-used-car-reseller-accused-of-large-scale-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Minsk Used-Car Reseller Accused Of Large-Scale Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Investigative Committee is examining a criminal case against a 31-year-old Minsk resident. The man is accused of large-scale fraud (Part 4, Article 209 of the Criminal Code).<\/p>\n<p>According to the Investigative Committee, since 2023 the Minsk resident had been working as a polisher at one of the capital\u2019s car dealerships. He searched online for advertisements posted by private individuals selling their cars and presented himself to them as a potential buyer.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the man promised to purchase the vehicle, pay an advance, and settle the remaining amount in instalments. As a \u201cguarantee,\u201d he signed loan agreements with the victims.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHowever, after signing the documents and receiving the advance payment, the man acted differently. He sold the victims\u2019 vehicles through auto-house platforms and appropriated the proceeds,\u201d<\/i> the Investigative Committee said.<\/p>\n<p>His activities did not stop there. Under the pretext of developing a car-reselling business, he borrowed large sums of money from acquaintances at interest. He did not repay the debts and spent the funds on personal needs.<\/p>\n<p>At present, investigators have established that over two years the Minsk resident seized the property of 60 victims, amounting to more than 400,000 belarusian roubles.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been taken into custody. The investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee is examining a criminal case against a 31-year-old Minsk resident. The man is accused of large-scale fraud (Part 4, Article 209 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, since 2023 the Minsk resident had been working as a polisher at one of the capital\u2019s car dealerships. He searched online for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6926bbd6e7094.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk Used-Car Reseller Accused Of Large-Scale Fraud"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}