Gang members “specialized” in extorting debts from citizens, burglarizing homes and stealing cars.
In the Poltava region, police detained members of a criminal organization headed by a crime boss. This was reported by the press service of the National Police of Ukraine on Thursday, April 11.
It is reported that the gang members “specialize” in extorting fictitious debts from citizens, burglarizing premises and stealing vehicles.
The group’s activities were organized by a local 39-year-old criminal authority with several convictions for serious crimes. He further recruited nine people aged 21 to 32 as accomplices, most of whom had previously been prosecuted.
All actions and clearly established rules of conduct were agreed upon between the accomplices, and each of them fulfilled his appointed duty.
“The only source of income of the members of a criminal organization is the commission of crimes: robbery, car theft, extortion of fictitious debts from victims with threats of violence and destruction of property- property. The attackers carefully studied their victims, thinking of their criminal plans in The businessmen “worked” in the city of Poltava, the message said.
Investigators received evidence of the involvement of members of a criminal organization in at least 13 episodes of criminal activity. The police described one of the episodes, which lasted from the beginning of 2024 until the arrest of the defendants. Threatening to die, the attackers demanded that the local resident re-register the car with their authorized representative.
“After the man refused, they set fire to his car. When this did not force the victim to agree to the conditions of the attackers, one of the group members warned that burning the car was only the beginning of problems,” the report. said.
On Wednesday, April 10, law enforcement officers in Kyiv and Poltava detained and detained five members of a group led by a crime boss.
On the same day, during 17 searches, the police seized expensive cars, bank cards, forged documents, master key sets for locks, weapons, brass knuckles, etc.
The defendants received a notice of suspicion under article six. Previously, suspicion was revealed against three other members of the group.
Earlier it was reported that the police detained a group from the entourage of “guarding Poltava”.
We remind you that the Security Service detained a deputy of the city council of Korostyshev of the Zhytomyr region, who is part of a criminal organization in the region. He and his gang kidnap people and extort money from them.
Source: korrespondent
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