Law enforcers have established all areas of their activities and communications. Umka and Lasha Svan organized criminal groups and controlled the criminals in Ukraine through their representatives, incited crimes, leading to additional threats to the safety of citizens, the report said.
“We continue the relentless war against organized crime. The police have detained two of the most influential thieves in law in Ukraine. New legislation, political will and the specialty of operatives will gradually exterminate this shameful criminal phenomenon. We will not stop,” Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.
The detainees are charged with the establishment and spread of criminal influence, Art. 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
On May 15, Delo.ua, citing sources in law enforcement agencies, published a partial list of “thieves in law” against whom the NSDC imposed sanctions. Lasha is on the list Giachvliani and Sergey Oleinik, nicknamed Umka Dnepropetrovskiy, who is a native of the Dnieper. Umka is the head of the so-called eastern clan, which includes Dnieper criminals. Has connections with the Russian criminal world – he was elevated to the rank of “thief in law” in February 2014 in St. Petersburg.
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine at a meeting on May 14 decided to impose sanctions against more than 550 “thieves in law”famous in the world.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the decision was made “after the adoption of the law on thieves in law, a strategy to combat organized crime and nine months of work.”
Most of the so-called thieves in law who came under the sanctions of the NSDC– foreigners, citizens of Ukraine among them 15, said the secretary of the NSDC Oleksiy Danilov.
The bill, which provides for criminal liability for persons in the status of “thief in law” for a period of five to 12 years, Zelensky initiated December 3, 2019. Deputies in the first reading voted for this bill on December 19 2019. On February 4, 2020, the deputies sent the document for a second second reading.
On June 4, 2020, people’s deputies, by 236 votes, amended the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which introduced into the legislation the concept of “thief in law”… Experts noted that the bill actually legitimizes the criminal jargon in the criminal legislation of Ukraine.
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