A 71-year-old Russian grandmother is under investigation for $530,000 worth of fraud.
Known only as Svetlana, the elderly fraudster allegedly swindled the cash out of businessmen by posing as an influential lobbyist.
Between 2007 and 2008, the grandmother promised to deliver 16.4 million roubles (approximately $531,241) to contacts she claimed to have within Moscow's City Hall as part of a bribe from those keen to purchase real estate in the heart of the Russian capital.
She than vanished with the cash until she was caught by police.
Svetlana is now under investigation for fraud and banned from leaving Moscow.
