Gypsy woman cons $3000 from pensioner in Homel

A Gypsy woman on February 6 conned over $3000 from a local female pensioner in Homel.  The Belapan news agency reports, a 58-year-old woman reported to a police station that a Gypsy woman posing as a witch doctor took the money for allegedly removing the curse. The police opened a criminal case.

Similar offences were registered last weekend in Zhlobin and the Mazyr district.