Caucasian Seducer Posed as 'GRU Special Forces' to Systematically Defraud Belarusian Tourist
First, she sent money to her new friend, who even introduced her to his family, so that he could get out of Afghanistan. Later, he allegedly went to war with Ukraine and was wounded.
In Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria, a local resident was convicted for several months of fabricating stories about serving in special forces and the 'SMO' (Special Military Operation) to extort money from an acquaintance from Belarus.
The story began typically: a man (his name is redacted in court documents — B.R.A.) picked up a Belarusian woman who was traveling through the North Caucasus on a highway in Ingushetia. During the trip, he introduced himself as the general director of a construction company. The girl, who at the time did not have permanent employment, said she worked in landscape design – and the man immediately offered to "work together."
Everything then unfolded according to the classic confidence trick scenario: trips to "friends," a rented apartment in Kabardino-Balkaria, meeting his mother and sister, working together on some construction projects. The girl, naturally, did not know that he had previously served time for weapons, drugs, and extortion.
When the woman flew to Belarus for personal reasons, the "enamored builder" began calling her with a new story: he was allegedly serving in the GRU special forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was in Afghanistan, and couldn't get home — he didn't have enough money. He asked for "a loan" of several thousand dollars, and the girl, unsuspecting of the deception, transferred the funds through a fast transfer system.
A week later, he called again: saying that to leave "Afghanistan," he still needed more money. The girl helped again. Then — a third call requesting another sum, and the man cleverly advised her to write not "urgent transfer" but "loan repayment" in the payment description to make it seem more convincing.
After the last transfer, the man promised to return home and pick up the girl — he didn't, and then completely stopped answering calls. When contact was re-established, he told a new version: he had allegedly been sent to the "SMO" in Ukraine, where he injured his back and ended up in the hospital.
As the investigation determined, all these months the man had not left his native district in Kabardino-Balkaria. He had never been to Afghanistan, had not fought in Ukraine, and was not a military serviceman at all. He withdrew the received money from a local bank branch and spent it on his own needs.
The total amount he thus defrauded from the Belarusian woman was almost $10,000. The woman contacted the police, after which the Russian swindler fully returned all the money to her.
Nevertheless, given his recidivism, he was sentenced to 1 year in a strict-regime penal colony.
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