Police detain suspects accused of tricking 13-year-old daughter of soldier out of more than $56,000

Kyiv police detained two suspects, aged 39 and 44, accused of posing as a fellow child online to befriend a 13-year-old girl, then threatening her with fabricated collaboration charges to extract more than 2.5 million hryvnias, about $56,151, from her family's savings. The girl reportedly gathered the cash and handed it to an unwitting taxi driver hired to move it from Kyiv to Sumy.

Investigators swapped the real money for imitation bills before the handoff, then arrested one suspect in Sumy when he arrived to collect it and detained the second shortly after. Both face up to 12 years in prison under fraud statutes tied to wartime conditions.

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