A person who embezzled 161 million soums through fake charity videos in Bukhara has been apprehended.
He has been editing charity videos posted in the name of sick children on social media, altering bank card numbers, and misappropriating the money sent by citizens.
The Tashkent Regional DIA called on citizens to be aware of new types of cyber fraud on the occasion of the month of Ramadan. As a result of operational-search measures carried out based on monitoring conducted by the Regional DIA's Department for Combating Crimes in the Field of Information Technology and citizens' appeals, another cybercrime was exposed.
It was revealed that a person born in 2004, residing in the Bukhara region, downloaded charity videos posted on the Instagram social network on behalf of sick children and re-edited them. He altered the bank card numbers in the original videos, replacing them with other card details, and had been illegally appropriating funds sent by citizens.
According to preliminary investigations, from October 2025 until his crime was exposed, this person transferred a total of 161 million soums through nearly 2,000 transactions to a bank card belonging to his mother and spent these funds for his personal needs.
Regarding this case, a criminal case has been initiated under Article 168, Part 3, paragraph "g" of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and investigative actions are currently being carried out.
