OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2009. Beginning from May 2009, some Russian companies faced fraudsters attempting to unlawfully withdraw monies from bank accounts of these companies by virtue of forged writs of execution of the Ostankino Court of the city of Moscow, reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

In June, Allianz companies in Russia faced three such cases for the total amount of over 1.6 million roubles. ROSNO’s Security Department has worked out and taken a number of measures enabling it to suppress the criminal group’s actions and prevent payments to fraudsters.

In one such case, the citizen N visited an office of the RF Sberbank and presented an application on collecting from OJSC ROSNO-MS the amount of 512,368 roubles in execution of the resolution issued by the Ostankino Court, and on transferring the said amount to a current account opened with one of the Moscow banks. The application was supplemented with a writ of execution issued by the Ostankino District Court.

However, Sberbank employees got alerted by the applicant’s behaviour: this individual was extremely nervous, he refused to hand over his passport for examination, and he was frequently checking time on his watch. The bank’s teller decided to check with ROSNO-MS whether the legal proceeding referred to in the application did actually exist. Consequently, it was discovered that the company knew nothing of such proceeding. The company’s security department and financial subdivisions were immediately informed about this incident. On the same day, the Ostankino Court responded to the enquiry made by ROSNO’s Security Department, confirming that the presented writ of execution had been never issued, and that the judge and the secretary specified in the forged writ of execution had never worked in the said institution. With assistance of law enforcement bodies, the copy of the applicant’s passport submitted by the bank was examined, and it was concluded that the passport had also been a fake.

In two other cases, fraudsters tried to collect insurance compensations of 510,744 roubles and 571,905 roubles from IC Allianz ROSNO Life. Owing to the vigilance displayed by the bank’s employees and the company’s security department, monies were not remitted to the fraudsters.

The investigation of these cases carried out by the Security Department of OJSC IC ROSNO has uncovered that, beginning from May 2009, fraudsters have been using similar schemes to collect monies from various legal entities in Moscow and other Russian cities.

The employees of the Security Department submitted information about the abovementioned cases of fraud to law enforcement bodies and warned all offices of the banks conducting settlement operations affecting the company’s accounts, as well as other participants of the insurance market, about the potential danger. The information letters warning about this type of fraud have been submitted to the RSA & VSS Insurance Fraud Committees.