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In the Odessa region, a gang attacked truckers

In the Odessa region, law enforcement officers established a group of robbers who attacked truckers on highways. Now the attackers have been detained, police investigators have announced suspicion to them.

“Internal security officers of the National Police identified a group of” highway robbers “from among the residents of the Odessa region, the victims of which were the drivers of heavy vehicles. The attackers were detained. Police investigators announced suspicion to them,” the message says.

It is noted that the operatives of the Odessa department of the Department of Internal Security of the NPU received information about the activities of a criminal group of persons that operated on the roads.

In addition, the police found that the detainees were planning to organize another ambush on the highway in the near future, this time on the driver of a heavy-duty vehicle, which was traveling from Odessa to the Zaporozhye region and had 370 thousand hryvnia with him.

Photo: detention of a gang in the Odessa region (npu.gov.ua)

“To stop the truck, the conspirators carefully prepared. They carried out a visual observation of the car company, from where the object of their choice followed. At the gas station, the tires on the truck were cut imperceptibly. Subsequently, they waited for the truck to stop and attacked the driver in the Kherson region before dawn,” said law enforcement officers.

It is known that the internal security operatives of the NPU and the investigative GUNP in the Odessa region detained the criminal group “on the hot”. A knife, a gas canister, screeds and balaclavas were confiscated from the attackers.

According to the procedural guidance of the Odessa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, police investigators announced suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 187 (Robbery) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of seven to ten years with confiscation of property. Now the attackers have been detained in accordance with Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.



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