18:00, 17 April 2009 | GMT +5
Moscow police has detained a 72-year-old woman because of fraud
MOSCOW. April 17. KAZINFORM. Moscow police has detained a 72-year-old woman who conned a Muscovite out of three million roubles with the promise to arrange the sale of an apartment at a reduced price, the police source told Itar-Tass on Friday; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

"Her victim was a Muscovite whom the cunning pensioner offered her services to sell an apartment under a preferential Moscow government program," a law-enforcement officer said.
Since 2005, the man has given her over three million roubles for her assistance but never received an apartment. The pensioner then disappeared and the man reported the fact to the police; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.