Belarus money: beware of new currency swindle (photo)
Reports about post-denomination fraud are appearing on the Internet. User Pavel Kurza has published the following information on social media:
“There are cases of fraud involving new Belarusian roubels. An elderly woman has received change in a brand-name shop in Minsk. I am not going to tell you the name of the shop because the sales assistant was probably deceived too. Pay attention, please!!!”
The elderly woman received 1 Russian rouble instead of 1 Belarusian rouble.
A 20-year-old resident of Baranavichy exchanged a pensioner’s money for ‘new roubles’ before the denomination. She swindled 16 million roubles out of him. The young woman was sentenced to 200 hours of corrective labour.
Meanwhile, no counterfeit money have been spotted yet, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
