Volunteers – extortionists who were involved in racketeering in favor of ATO participants – were imprisoned in the Chernihiv region
In the urban village of Nosovka, located near the city of Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, there is a society to help ATO participants, numbering about eighty people. The methods by which they collect this help make many small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, who so actively supported the Maidan at one time, repent.
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At the beginning of this year, one of the volunteers, actively flaunting patriotic rhetoric, began to “pressure” an entrepreneur he knew, with whom he had once worked at the same job for five years and was on friendly terms. He asked for four hundred hryvnia worth of cigarettes for volunteers suffering in the ATO zone. And in order for the arguments to have an effect, he took with him another volunteer, their mutual friend, who, as everyone knew, had connections in the criminal world and had problems with the law. Such a massive attack yielded positive results. They agreed on a monthly payment
However, after some reasonable reflection, the businessman decided not to give in to the extortionists and did not give a contribution the next month. He and his brother, also a co-owner of a small business: a gas station, subsequently paid for this.
In early April, both extortionists arrived at the gas station. When the arguments dried up, two more persons, unidentified by the investigation, apparently with a criminal past, “accidentally” ended up there. They began to teach obstinate businessmen wisdom. The main volunteer went home, and the brothers found themselves alone with three criminal elements.
The result of the heart-to-heart talk was shooting with a traumatic weapon and beating one of the brothers. In the courtroom, the businessman tried in every possible way to shield his acquaintances, shifting all the blame for the atrocities onto the wanted unknown persons. However, extortion was proven, and one volunteer sentenced to three years probation, and the other, who was serving a four-year suspended sentence for another violent crime, received the actual sentence: four years and one month in prison.
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