The Foreign Office for Criminal Affairs at Department of Internal Affairs, Debar filed criminal charges against two people suspected of illegally obtaining money through fraud for the treatment of an allegedly sick child, reported MIA.
Criminal charges have been filed against the 19-year-old H.M. from the village Village houses and the 28-year-old I.K. from Debardue to suspicion of the crime of “fraud”.
According to information from Department of Internal Affairs, Ohridin the period from March 10 to 12 of this year, the first reported, encouraged by the second reported, misled several people through a social network.
Through an account managed by the second defendant, she collected financial aid for surgery and treatment of an allegedly sick child from Debar.
In that way, the suspect acquired illegal property benefit in the total amount of 3,200 euros and 6,000 MKD.
The police point out that this is the first such case registered in the area.
As early as March 13, the Debar police warned that false information was being spread for the purpose of fraud and appealed to citizens not to share personal data, not to contact suspicious persons and not to donate funds without verification.
