Abduction, extortion, robbery and seizure of real estate worth UAH 14 million: in Odessa region, members of criminal group will face trial
The criminal group consisted of six participants and an organizer.
The operatives of the strategic investigations department in the Odessa region and the investigators of the investigative department of the regional police department exposed the members of the group and received evidence of their involvement in the commission of a number of crimes.
As the police established, each of the intruders between the ages of 29 and 50 performed his function: organization and coordination of the scheme, falsification of documents, selection of fake persons for real estate registration, search for buyers, illegal re-registration of property. Property, the owners of which were single owners, interested in intruders ordinary persons, objects that were in the mortgage, as well as non-residential premises belonging to the territorial community of the city.
It was established that during 2016-2018, the members of the organized criminal group managed to seize 17 real estate objects in Odessa for the amount of almost 14 million hryvnias. They spent the money they received on the purchase of luxury real estate, which was later rented. Investigators and operatives
also established the involvement of three members of the group in a robbery armed attack and the kidnapping of a local resident in order to seize his funds. Then the intruders forcibly took the funds from him, after which she exposed and held until he gave them the documents for the property.
Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings is completed. In agreement with the Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office, the indictment against seven persons was sent to the Primorsky District Court of the city. Odessa. They incriminate the commission of crimes provided for in several articles of the Criminal Code.
To the organizer and four participants:
- fraud (part 3 of article 28, part 4 of article. 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);
- legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means (Part 2, 3 of Article 209);
- forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps (Part 3, 4 of Art. 358).
In addition, two more members of the group and their leader:
- unlawful imprisonment or kidnapping of a person (part 2 of article 146); - robbery (part 2 of article 187);
- extortion (part 4 of art.
189).
For a crime committed, members of a criminal group can face up to 12 years with confiscation of property.
