According to the initiative, on October 1 last year, in the center of Kiev, on Mikhailovskaya Street, SBU officers ran up to the entrepreneur and pushed him into the passenger compartment of a Volkswagen T5 car. Law enforcers took away the keys to the apartment and the iPhone from him.
“After that, two SBU officers went to the apartment, and the rest continued to hold the man in the car. For the man to give them the passwords from the phone, the latter intimidated him and threatened him with violence,” the community said.
In the entrepreneur’s apartment, security officers took two laptops and a tablet. After that, the entrepreneur was brought to the forest near the Park road in Kiev. For an hour and a half he was beaten with blunt hard objects. Later, one of the security officials demanded $ 200 thousand. The entrepreneur refused, so he was taken to the Shevchenko police department in Kiev. There he was held without fixing the fact of arrest or detention, Police Control Ukraine reported.
Then the businessman was asked $80 thousand. He agreed and called his wife, who transferred seven bitcoins from an electronic wallet to the specified requisites. As of the day and time of the transaction, they cost $80 thous.
“The senior operative for especially important cases of the department of counterintelligence protection of state interests in the field of information security of the SBU Volkov BC drew up a report on the detention of a man on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev, indicating the actual time of detention – 23.30 on October 1, 2020 – as a wanted person and in relation to which requires extradition to the Russian Federation, “the initiative said.
During the investigation, the involvement of eight SBU officers in the commission of this offense is being checked. In February of this year, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine conducted searches at the places of residence of the defendants in the case. The suspected cyber-specialists of the SBU have chosen measures of restraint in the form of house arrest, they were removed from their posts.
The SBU did not comment on this information at the time of publication of the news.
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