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A telephone scam for 70,000 BGN was uncovered in Razgrad by employees of the National Police Main Directorate and the regional directorates in Razgrad and Veliko Tarnovo, the Ministry of the Interior informs. 

Three men, aged 38, 25 and 27, have been detained. 

Mobile phones, SIM cards and money were seized from three of the addresses inhabited by the men in Gorna Oryahovitsa.

The victim is a 50-year-old woman from the city.

The scheme operated was to assist the police in an operation to catch fraudsters.

The woman twice handed over the sum of BGN 70,000, which a taxi driver from Varna, in his capacity as a "mule", left in the village of Moravitsa.

It was established that the men were complicit in five more fraud attempts on the territory of the ODMVR-Razgrad.

The 38-year-old man was remanded in custody for up to 72 hours.

Fraud for over 10,000 euros is being investigated in Razgradsko

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