KHANKALA, March 26 (AVN) - Police officers in Gudermes, Chechnya's second biggest city, have exposed a criminal gang that posed as an office of the Russian Savings Bank, a spokesman for the Chechnya police department told the Military News Agency on Monday.
The group was led by a woman identified as Shaidayeva and consisted of eight people that conducted illegal banking activity in the Gudermes district using made-up prints and stamps. Policemen estimate the group's illegal money turnover at RUR10m (USD347,476) and the profit at RUR259,000 (USD8,999).
Police have brought a criminal case on charges of illegal banking activity. As many as RUR2.5m (USD86,869) were confiscated from the detainees to pay back the damages they had caused.