On video: Arrest of suspects in elderly fraud (photo: Israel Police, editing: Nir Chen)
Ten people were arrested on suspicion of dozens of fraud cases involving the elderly, including a prisoner serving his sentence - the police announced this morning (Thursday).
This, after an investigation was conducted for two months at the Kfar Saba police after receiving complaints on the subject.
During the investigation, the suspicion arose that nine people, who were activated by a person who is currently serving a prison sentence for similar offenses, called dozens of senior citizens, between the ages of 70 and 90, and pretended to be representatives of a large communications company.
The police received about 30 complaints and during the investigation evidence was collected against the suspects.
At the beginning of the week five suspects were arrested and yesterday five more were arrested.
Also, more arrests are planned.
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They pretended to be representatives of a large communication company and defrauded the elderly (Photo: Reuven Castro)
In April last year, the police fraud unit arrested five suspects in stinging the elderly.
According to the suspicion, the five ran a company that presented itself as an insurance service provider for the repair of electrical appliances, and defrauded dozens of elderly people across the country out of hundreds of thousands of shekels.
The suspects, four residents of Holon and a resident of Ashkelon, convinced the elderly through repeated phone calls to purchase a service for repairing household electrical appliances.
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