{"id":567101,"date":"2026-08-11T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=567101"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:34:54","slug":"a-group-of-drop-guides-detained-in-vitebsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/a-group-of-drop-guides-detained-in-vitebsk-region","title":{"rendered":"A Group of \u201cDrop Guides\u201d Detained in Vitebsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Interior Ministry reported the detention of a group of residents of the Vitebsk region who assisted fraudsters in withdrawing stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, eight people aged between 22 and 37, known as \u201cdrop guides,\u201d were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe they sought out people leading an antisocial lifestyle and had payment cards issued in their names at foreign banks. The cards were then sold to <em>\u201ccriminals from a neighboring country.\u201d<\/em> The accounts were used to withdraw stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects\u2019 income is estimated at no less than 200,000 rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry reported the detention of a group of residents of the Vitebsk region who assisted fraudsters in withdrawing stolen funds. According to police, eight people aged between 22 and 37, known as \u201cdrop guides,\u201d were detained. Police believe they sought out people leading an antisocial lifestyle and had payment cards issued in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":567100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7aecc1c08f3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"A Group of \u201cDrop Guides\u201d Detained in Vitebsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567101","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}