Turchin twice tried to blow for millions with a bank in Varna

10.07.2018

 

A protest against an acquittal issued by the Varna District Court for a Turkish citizen using a payment instrument of a French bank without cover has brought the District Prosecutor's Office to Varna. On July 9, 2018, the court acknowledged the defendant NJ. innocent on the alleged charge for an offense under Article 249, para. 2 of the Penal Code. Within two months, the panel must prepare the reasons for the acquittal.

 

In May 2016, the defendant appeared in the branch of a Bulgarian bank in Varna and presented a check of EUR 750,000 issued by a Swiss bank. After signing the payment instrument, the bank employee scanned the document and sent it to his colleagues for processing. Even in the presence of Turkish citizen NY. an instruction was received that the check was improperly signed. The signature was put in place at the date, and the client wrote the date at the signature. The bank refused to accept this check. Customer Н.Ъ. promised to fix it after contacting his relatives in Switzerland and returning a properly filled new one. But he did not appear in the bank with the Swiss check issued by the Swiss bank.

 

On June 17, 2016, the defendant again visited the branch of the bank in Varna, submitting a cash check of EUR 5.444 million. The publisher of the payment instrument was the French Treasury Bank, and the bank employee at the branch scanned the check and sent it to his counterparts in the Foreign Exchange Department. They sent it to the Global Payments Department, and an email was sent to the French bank asking if the check was real, and the answer was that there was a check with such a number, but it was issued in the name of an individual and significantly smaller The police were summoned and the expert report found that there was a violation of the background security net of the check in the area of ​​the text, describing the amount and the person to whom it was issued.

 

During the investigation, no expertise was provided to confirm the defects of the payment instrument as the check was uncovered. Against the living in Varna NN initiated pre-trial proceedings for an offense under Article 249, para. 2 of the Penal Code for the use of a payment instrument issued abroad without any amount of cover. The offense shall be punished by imprisonment of one to six years and by a fine up to the double amount of the amount received.

 

The Prosecutor's Office wants the verdict of the first instance to be annulled in the protest before the Appellate Court as wrong and the accused Turkish citizen to be found guilty on the charge.