SBU officers detained in Ivano-Frankivsk region a group of offenders who extorted a considerable amount of money or the transfer of business ownership.   

SBU operatives have received information that unknown persons extorted from the local resident USD 30 thousand or alternatively – transferring the business to them, located in the city center, with an estimated value of USD 60 thousand. In case of refusal the offenders threatened her to be acid-attacked. To confirm the seriousness of intentions, they damaged the front of the office, where the woman carried on business, broke windows and glass doors.

SBU officers have established that the attackers earlier served sentences at places of detention. After release they maintained close relationship with criminal world  behind the bars. The extortionists have led to a woman by means of her former friend, detained by the SBU and sentenced for drug smuggling last summer. He coordinated details of extortion with the offenders from behind bars.

Law enforcement officers detained three extortionists in one of the streets of the city. Within the framework of criminal proceeding initiated under Part 4 Art. 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the issue of serving to organizer and one of the accomplices notice of suspicion and choosing measures of restraint is being solved. The offenders are looking at seven years of imprisonment.

The documentation of crime was conducted with the Main Directorate of the National Police under the procedural guidance of the regional Prosecutor's Office.