In the summer of 2020, the native of the East Kazakhstan region decided to earn easy money while in Almaty and did not suspect that he would find it on social networks. zakon.kz reports with reference to the press service of the Department of Criminal Justice of the East Kazakhstan region.

Azamat D. He registered on the social network “Instagram” and committed fraud against several people, introduced himself as a manager of Kazakhstani pop singers, gave false information about the car and the fraudulent drawing of half a million tenge.

From those registered in the “Subscriptions” section, he selected the potential victims as the winners of the draw and sent them a message to the director with the following content:

“Hello, you are the winner of our draw! Today happiness is on your side! You need to buy the author’s album of this singer, and then you can get your winnings.”

Then he transferred a certain amount to the winners on his personal card “Kaspi Gold” and waited for his prize.

However, after receiving this translation, the fake manager blocked and discarded these people, and then completely deleted the Instagram account created on the social network.

For these actions, the young man was sentenced to three years in prison, and the court imposed certain obligations on him.

I sincerely regret what I did and hope that this will be my first and last conviction. When I committed this crime, I did not doubt the consequences, I could have been imprisoned, but the court allowed me to try not to bring my relatives to the ground. At the moment, I am compensating for the material damage, and I apologize to the victims, “said the convict.

Employees of the probation service provided full social and legal assistance to the accountant and held a preventive talk on the prevention of further administrative offenses and recidivism. Our main goal is to restore social justice, to correct convicts, to prevent convicts and other people from committing new crimes, – said the head of the Department of Penal Code of the East Kazakhstan region, Colonel Zhanbolat Kaletayev.