The founder of a Lviv real estate agency and his accomplice were arrested on fraud charges
In Lviv, law enforcement officials exposed and detained Yaroslav Ferenc, the founder of the well-known real estate agency Ferenc, and his accomplice Kateryna Rymar, who defrauded homebuyers of the equivalent of nearly 870,000 hryvnias.
According to the investigation, the suspects gained access to private apartments and houses, showed them to potential clients, drew up fictitious preliminary purchase and sale agreements, collected down payments, and then cut off all contact.
Between 2024 and 2026, the fake real estate agents were documented as having defrauded three citizens. Specifically, in October 2024, they took $6,000 for a house in Vynnyky without the owner’s knowledge, and later, using a similar scheme, embezzled 490,000 hryvnias and $3,000 under the pretext of selling relatives’ homes on Lychakivska Street and Taras Shevchenko Avenue in Lviv.
The suspects have been notified that they are under investigation for large-scale fraud committed as part of a premeditated conspiracy. The court will soon determine preventive measures for the detainees.
This was reported by the publication “ZAXID.NET,” citing the Lviv Regional Police and Prosecutor’s Office.
Earlier reports indicated that a 71-year-old woman from Kyiv received a call via a messaging app from a man who identified himself as an SBU employee. He informed her that she was suspected of treason and had to hand over all her savings for verification. The money would be checked to ensure it did not originate from Russia. The scammers promised to return the money to the woman after it had been verified. To make their story more convincing, the scammers sent her forged summonses via the messaging app.
Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court sentenced an employee of the Krasyliv Aggregate Plant to nine years in prison for receiving an unlawful benefit.
The High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a bail of 4 million hryvnias on the former head of one of the parliamentary factions of the Lutsk City Council. He is suspected of receiving an illegal benefit in connection with the construction of an apartment building in Lutsk.
