Ukrainian police detained another member of an international criminal organization for theft from bank safes
In April of this year, as a result of cooperation of Ukrainian and foreign police officers in the United States, participants of a criminal organization who stole more than $30 million worth of property from Ukrainian bank safes were detained. The criminal organization included at least 25 people. At the moment, another member of the organization, who was hiding in the territory of Ukraine, has been detained. He is suspected of involvement in the commission of crimes in the territory of the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Moldova, North Macedonia and the Russian Federation.
Investigators of the Department of Investigation of Particularly Serious Crimes of the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine together with the employees of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police established the place of stay and detained another participant of the criminal organization, which since 2015 has systematically committed theft of other people's property from individual bank safes.
The police established that in 2017, a 51-year-old detainee, acting as part of a criminal organization, was complicit in the secret theft of someone else's property, which was stored in individual bank safes in the depository of a bank branch in the city. Riga.
In December 2017, to commit the planned crime, he arrived from Ukraine to the territory of the Republic of Latvia. Under the pretext of using a bank safe, rented in advance by one of the accomplices, he received the right of passage to the depository storage of the bank branch in Riga. While in the vault, for three days in a row, he videotaped the internal parts of the cores of the locks of almost 40 bank safes with the help of special equipment and transmitted the information received to other participants. Thus, in the future, attackers, using them, made duplicates of keys.
In January 2018, using manufactured duplicates of keys, two other members of this organization, who are also citizens of Ukraine, committed the theft of property from 8 bank safes in the amount of more than 60 million hryvnias.
In 2018, law enforcement officers of the Republic of Latvia detained one perpetrator of the crime. At present, she has been found guilty and sentenced to a real sentence.
Regarding the other two accomplices, the materials were transferred to Ukraine, as it was established that they were citizens of Ukraine. Ukrainian law enforcement officers conducted a number of searches, during which they found physical evidence, in particular a video set of a technical baroscope, which was used to videotape the cores of the castles.
One of the suspects fled to the United States, where he was detained in April this year. And the second was hiding on the territory of Ukraine. The man used different names and forged documents. As a result of investigative and investigative measures, he was detained in the Kiev region.
At present, he has been informed of suspicion of committing criminal offenses provided for in Part 1 of Art. 255 (participation in a criminal organization) and Part 5 of Art. 27, Part 4 of Art. 28, part 5 of Art. 185 (complicity in the secret theft of someone else's property (theft), combined with penetration into the premises or another repository, committed on a particularly large scale, as part of a criminal organization) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Pechersk district court of the city. Kyiv chose a precautionary measure for him — detention.
According to the materials of the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the suspect is also involved in the commission of similar crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Moldova and North Macedonia.
The investigation of the specified criminal proceedings is carried out under the procedural guidance of the prosecutors of the Directorate of Procedural Guidance for the pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on organized crime of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
It is worth noting that the participants of this criminal organization during 2015 — 2016 committed such crimes in the depository warehouses of 10 banking institutions in the territory of the city. Kiev. The attackers also operated in Moldova, Belarus, North Macedonia, Georgia, the Russian Federation, Latvia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
As a result of the successful cooperation of Ukrainian and foreign law enforcement officers, more than 10 members of this organization have now been brought to criminal responsibility. In particular, on the territory of Ukraine, indictments against six participants were sent to the court.
In the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Azerbaijan, at the stage of preparation for committing theft, two more participants were detained in each of these countries. They are currently sentenced to real terms of punishment. In April this year, four more people were detained on the territory of the United States, two of whom are organizers, two more - perpetrators of crimes, including those committed on the territory of Ukraine.
Department of Communication of the National Police of Ukraine
According to the materials of the Main Investigative Department
