Kyiv.Ukraine.Ukraine Gate-October 27,2021- The Ukrainian State Investigation Bureau (SBI) suspects that two employees of the Central Bureau of the State Security Service of the State Security Service and an employee of the regional department of the State Security Administration are suspected of illegal detention and extortion of a foreign IT specialist.
The alien is wanted by Russian law enforcement agencies for committing a crime in that country.
They also held him for a long time, demanded $200,000, and beat and intimidated him to get the money faster. In addition, they illegally infiltrated the victim’s home and stole and seized his personal belongings.
The detainee did not have the required amount of money and agreed to pay bitcoins to law enforcers. After receiving 7.5 bitcoins, equivalent to 2.1 million Ukrainian hryvnia in cash, state security officers forged documents on the time and conditions of detention of the foreigner and handed him over to the national police.
According to rulings issued by investigating judges, the SBU officers in August this year were removed from office and placed under house arrest.
Due to the improper procedural behavior of one suspect and the systematic violation of his procedural obligations, Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court ruled to take him into custody.
SBU officers were served with suspicion notices under articles on enforced disappearance, theft accompanied with unlawful breaking into a house, burglary, extortion and abuse of power by a law enforcement officer (Part 1 of Article 146-1, Part 3 of Article 185, Part 2 of Article 186, Part 2 of Article 28, Part 4 of Article 189, Part 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The articles provide for imprisonment for up to 12 years with confiscation of property.
