It is reported that all three criminals acted during August-November 2017, two of them Kievites. Attackers recruited a guy and a girl of 15 years, promising them a lot of money for a partial liver transplant. In the list of potential donors there were several adults. However, organ transplantation in Ukraine without the consent of relatives is prohibited, so men planned to send donors to Russia.

One of the women they promised 25 thousand dollars for liver transplantation, her border guards were detained on the border with Russia. All three criminals are threatened with long prison lines.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", in Ukraine in 2017 280 people were victims of human trafficking.