News archive on the topic "extortion"

In Simferopol, a trans-Ukrainian was detained who extorted donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the capital's notary Natalya Ageeva, the wife of the current head of the Simferopol municipal district, Viktor Ageev. In December, a homemade bomb was placed in the drainpipe of Ageeva’s notary office building and exploded, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a 43-year-old Simferopol resident was detained on suspicion of extortion. “According to preliminary data, the attacker is under...

Igor Sosnovsky, a former adviser to the head of the Ukrainian government Mykola Azarov, was detained in Moscow. Kommersant reports this, citing its sources, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. It is noted that the detention was carried out by the forces of the Investigative Committee and the FSB. The reason for the operation was Sosnovsky’s attempt to carry out a fraudulent scheme. Claiming that he had connections in the Russian intelligence services, Sosnovsky offered for five million dollars...

A high-ranking SBU official in the Odessa region led a criminal group that was engaged in extorting large sums of money. Thus, investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation, together with the Prosecutor General’s Office and the internal security of the SBU, uncovered the activities of a group of at least four people, led by the deputy of one of the departments of the SBU in the Odessa region. “According to the investigation, an SBU employee organized and supervised the activities...

In the Odessa region, the SBU detained heads of National Police units and border guards who demanded money from their subordinates, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press service of the SBU reports this. “The head of one of the regional departments of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Odessa forced 12 of his subordinates to systematically pay “tribute.” The captain’s “tax” was 1000 hryvnia per change and an additional 100 US dollars from each policeman, which...

In Odessa, an “activist” extorted money from an entrepreneur, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the communications department of the Main Directorate of the National Police of the Odessa region. “Under the guise of membership in a public organization, the attacker, under the fictitious pretext of checking the legality of the construction of a shopping pavilion, arranged a meeting with the victim, during which, threatening to destroy property, he demanded that funds be transferred to him,” the report says. According to police, to...

SBU officers exposed employees of the Dnieper paramilitary security detachment of the regional branch of the Dnieper Railway of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia for theft of property and extortion of money from entrepreneurs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The press service of the SBU reports this. “Special service operatives established that detachment officials, together with representatives of local criminals, organized a mechanism for the theft of cargo, in particular metal, coal, fuels and lubricants from wagons,...

In the center of Odessa, the head of the People's Shield of Justice organization, Anatoly Melnichenko, was detained, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Another odious Odessa Maidan activist, the head of “For the sake of public safety” Mark Gordienko, reported this on his social network page. According to Gordienko, Melnichenko is charged with extortion. Activists of the People's Shield are known for their actions against prostitution. In particular, in 2017 they blocked the Customs...

SBU officers detained a Russian citizen in Kyiv who extorted $250 thousand from an entrepreneur by threatening to disseminate compromising information, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The SBU press center reports this. “Law enforcement agencies established that the attacker moved to Ukraine at the beginning of this year. Through a common circle of friends, he met a capital businessman and began collecting information about his business and...

Members of the Mejlis, detained several days ago for extorting a bribe from Turkish citizen Yusuf Aytan, extorted money from him unreasonably. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte He spoke about this in an interview with blogger Anatoly Shariy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Aitan, he caught his partner, the daughter of a deceased supporter of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation...

“Revolution of Gidnost”, instead of raising the self-awareness of Lvov patriots to an unprecedented height, began to seduce officials with permissiveness caused by the post-Maidan confusion and cosmetic “reforms” to please the IMF. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. Having “climbed” the career ladder on the Maidan wave, the head of the regional Lviv migration service and his deputy decided to take advantage of the new order of things and...

Last July in Vinnitsa, two guys and a girl were returning from a disco at four in the morning. Two unknown men came out of the darkness of the alley to meet them, and one of them demanded that they buy beer because he had returned from the ATO. Trying to avoid conflict, the guy bought them good beer, but a small bottle. This offended the extortionist...

The ex-head of the Poltava Right Sector, Mark Chaus, was put on the international wanted list. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the local online publication Poltavashchyna with reference to law enforcement agencies. According to the press service of the GUNP in the Poltava region, 42-year-old Mark Anatolyevich Chaus, the former leader of the Poltava regional branch of the Right Sector, is suspected of robbery, extortion and coercion.…

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Prosecutor General's Office, detained two prosecutors in Kyiv and Artemovsk who were extorting money from ex-deputy Vasily Ganysh, suspected of high treason. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the SBU press center. As law enforcement officers learned, the procedural leaders of the case demanded 45 thousand US dollars from the ex-deputy...