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| Criminal group headed by SBU Colonel busted for kidnapping |
| 2021-01-31 |
| [RUSVENA] In the Kiev region, law enforcement officers exposed a criminal group organized by a lieutenant colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Among the members of the gang that kidnapped people and extorted money were also police officers. The press service of the National Police of the region reports. In total, the group consisted of seven people, two of them were officers of the operational units of the National Police and the organizer, a colonel of the SBU. The gang members kidnapped people and then extorted money from them. They also committed robberies with the use of violence. The material damage inflicted by the attackers on the residents of the capital and the Kiev region is almost UAH 5 million. “Now the pre-trial investigation by the Investigative Department of the Police of the Kiev region has been completed and the indictment has been sent to court by agreement of the regional prosecutor’s office. The maximum punishment they face is imprisonment up to fifteen years with confiscation of property, ”the police said. Could not find the Ukrainian National Police news item on this |
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