Police detained the kidnappers who were posing as law enforcement officers.

On March 5, 2021, police in the Lviv region detained members of a group who were hot on the trail of people who were engaging in criminal activity and then, posing as law enforcement officers, demanding funds from them, reports press office National police.

"To obtain the desired money, they kidnapped people and illegally detained them until they paid them the full amount. The court has now remanded all four individuals into custody.

The criminal activities of the group were exposed by operatives from the Strategic Investigations Department in the Lviv region, investigators from the regional police, and the procedural leadership of the regional prosecutor's office.

Law enforcement officials established that the group's activities were organized and coordinated by the "overseer" of the Lychakiv penal colony. There, he recruited members from among the inmates. The group included four local residents, all convicted multiple times of property and drug-related crimes. After their release, they teamed up to "work." They "specialized" in extorting money from citizens, even organizing their kidnappings. Drug addicts were also targeted.

Specifically, the perpetrators wanted to lure a resident of the Rivne region into illegal activity related to the purchase and distribution of drugs. To this end, they devised a scheme: two of them posed as sellers of the "product," while the others posed as police officers. Having arranged to meet the victim near a Lviv shopping mall, the suspects forced the man into a car and drove him toward the city.

"On the way, the gang members demanded $10,000, in exchange for helping the victim avoid criminal charges for drug possession. Under pressure from the perpetrators, the man asked his wife to transfer part of the funds—25,000 hryvnias—to their account, which the suspects then withdrew from an ATM," the report states.

During the arrest, the perpetrators were found to have fake police IDs, handcuffs and money.

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