Tortured, extorted money, and deprived of liberty: a criminal group of military personnel was exposed in the Ternopil region
Фото: пресслужба Нацполіції
In the Ternopil region, law enforcement officers detained a group of individuals who illegally deprived people of their liberty, used physical violence against them, tortured them, extorted money, and took away property.
This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Ternopil region.
The perpetrators were seven military personnel. They took the victims out of town, where they beat them and took their property.
According to the police, among the victims was also a seriously wounded soldier undergoing rehabilitation. The attackers met him on the street, forcibly put him in a minibus and took him to an unknown destination, where they beat him and, threatening him with a weapon, demanded 50 thousand hryvnias.
The detainees took the car from a 27-year-old resident of Ternopil and used it for their own purposes.
In another case, a man was forced into a car using tear gas and taken to the forest. There, he was stripped naked, doused with a flammable substance, forced to run in front of the car, and then beaten and held for three days.
Law enforcement officers documented another crime in the Ivano-Frankivsk region: the military stopped a car carrying a man and transferred him to their own vehicle, while their car was stolen.
According to law enforcement officials, the suspects intimidated the victims, and if they contacted the police, they threatened them with physical violence.
“Ternopil police officers, special forces police officers, with the support of colleagues from the KORD special forces units from four regions of Ukraine, implemented a large-scale special operation to stop the criminal activities of servicemen,” the police press service noted, adding that law enforcement officers conducted a number of authorized searches in the Ternopil, Kyiv, and Kharkiv regions.
As a result, six people were detained. During the searches, mobile phones, vehicles, weapons and other physical evidence were seized from them.
“Currently, police investigators have charged seven suspects under Part 2 of Article 127 (torture), Part 2 of Article 146 (illegal deprivation of liberty or kidnapping), Part 4 of Article 187 (robbery) and Part 2 of Article 289 (illegal seizure of a vehicle) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the report says.
Currently, law enforcement officers continue to identify other individuals involved in the case.
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