Kyiv investigators have completed a pre-trial investigation into a group of persons who fraudulently recruited Ukrainians for illegal work abroad
The attackers searched for citizens with the help of job advertisements by a courier forwarder. Instead, Ukrainians were transported to the Russian Federation, where they were forced to work as drug dealers. The defendants face up to fifteen years in prison.
Recall that the investigators of the Metropolitan Police Department together with the employees of the Migration Police Department, the Main Center for Operational Documentation and Operational and Technical Measures of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine documented the illegal activities of the criminal group, which during 2015-2016 recruited residents of Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions for work abroad. The group, which operated on the territory of Kyiv, included four men born in 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1985.
Maksym Lysyuk, a senior investigator in particularly important cases of the Kyiv Police Investigative Department, said that in order to lure victims, the attackers posted advertisements on the Internet about vacancies for the work of a courier forwarder:
“The accomplices organized pseudo-offices where they met people who agreed to work abroad. Some attackers bought train tickets to the capital, and then transported Ukrainians to the territory of the Russian Federation, where other “employers” involved them in the distribution of drugs. As a result, our citizens came into the field of view of local law enforcement officers, and therefore serve their sentences there. In the course of the pre-trial investigation, we proved the involvement of the defendants in up to 10 more episodes of similar criminal activity.”
Offenders are notified of suspicion of committing a crime provided for in Part 3 of Art. 149 (Trafficking in Persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The pre-trial investigation was completed and the materials of the criminal proceedings together with the indictment were sent to the Solomensky District Court to determine the punishment. Offenders face up to fifteen years in prison with or without confiscation of property.
Kyiv Police Communications Department
