The detainees are three women aged 26 to 29 and their accomplice, a 50-year-old man.
This was reported by the press service of the National Police.
Three women and their accomplice, a driver, entered the homes of pensioners and, under the pretext of checking gas counters stole all the savings from the victims' apartments. At least three residents of the capital suffered from the actions of the criminals.
Members of a criminal group were detained by officers of the Solomensky police department together with operatives of the capital's Main Police Department. The perpetrators are three women aged 26 to 29 years old, and their accomplice is a 50-year-old man. The defendants came to the capital from the Sumy region and were engaged in theft from the homes of elderly people.
The criminals acted according to a pre-planned scenario. They chose a victim in advance among lonely pensioners. They made sure that the person was alone in the house, entered the house, introducing themselves as gas service workers. Two women distracted the owner's attention, while their accomplice searched the rooms. Then they returned to their car, where their accomplice-driver was waiting for them, monitoring the situation from the outside.
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The Kradiyevs were detained after they stole 37 thousand hryvnia from an 83-year-old pensioner. Investigators have already proven the involvement of the defendants in two more crimes committed in a similar way. Then the dealers stole UAH 34,500 from the apartments of 75 and 85-year-old pensioners.
The detainees were informed of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 185 of the Criminal Code (theft committed under martial law). The penalty for the article incriminated to the defendants provides for up to eight years of imprisonment.
Recall that in August, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Law No. 11068, increasing the threshold for criminal liability for petty theft by 10 times – from UAH 302.8 to UAH 3,028.
