Investigators of the National Police have completed a pre-trial investigation into a group of fraudsters suspected of appropriating goods worth UAH 7 million
So far, six defendants, including two co-organizers, have been notified of suspicion. Using forged documents, the attackers acted as “intermediaries” between cargo owners and carriers. Therefore, they had to ensure the delivery of the cargo to the warehouses, in return all the goods disappeared.
The police established that the organized criminal group operated on the territory of Kiev, Rivne, Kharkiv regions and the city of Kiev. It consisted of eight people.
The defendants were looking for property owners who needed to carry out the transportation of goods by road, and carriers who could carry out such transportation. To the selected victims, the attackers provided forged documents and pledged to transfer the cargo to pre-searched warehouses. On the road, fraudsters directed the truck driver to another place where the goods disappeared.
The attackers followed a series of conspiracy measures: they used IP telephony, phone numbers and mobile devices changed after each crime. In addition, for each possession of the cargo, they used the details of the new enterprise.
The perpetrators were detained by the investigators of the Boryspil Police Department of the Kiev region and the employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police immediately after they committed another crime. The arrest took place with the strong support of special police officers.
The defendants seized the cargo — 63 refrigerators, which were brought to the territory of Ukraine from the Republic of Poland. To carry out criminal intentions, the attackers rented an apartment in the capital and prepared for a week to commit another crime. The stolen goods were planned to be brought to Kharkiv region.
During an authorized search in a rented apartment, law enforcement officers found and seized a flash drive. It stored information about crimes previously committed by intruders in the territory of a number of regions.
In connection with the establishment of the facts of the commission of crimes in the territory of the four regions of the state, the Office of the Prosecutor General made a decision to order a further investigation of the proceedings by the investigator of the General Prosecutor's Office of the National Police.
At the moment, investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police have completed a pre-trial investigation into members of the organized crime group. Six defendants, including two co-organizers, were notified of suspicion of committing criminal offenses provided for in Part 4 of Art. 190 (Fraud committed on a particularly large scale as part of an organized group) and Part 3, 4 of Art. 358 (Forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The police documented 10 facts of their criminal activities. The amount of damage caused to the victims is seven million hryvnias.
Violators face punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of five to twelve years with confiscation of property.
Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings is carried out under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Recall, earlier it was reported that the investigators of the National Police prevented the murder of an entrepreneur from the Kherson region and detained the customer of the crime.
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