Prosecutor's Office of the Kharkov region sent an indictment against the ex-investigator of one of the regional branches of KSU GUMVD of Ukraine in the region.

As he said and. head of the prosecutor's office of the region Eugene Shpak, a 31-year-old "werewolf in epaulettes" is charged with committing crimes,. 2 items. 189 h. 4 items. 358 h. 1 st. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (extortion using the official position, combined with the restriction of the rights and freedoms of the victim, with the threat of violence, the use of a knowingly false document, forgery).

Pre-trial investigation found that in the summer of 2015 the accused, who at that time worked as a senior investigator of the police department, learned that a Kharkov entrepreneur periodically appears significant amounts of money. The 37-year-old woman was engaged in financial transactions and cooperated with foreigners.

The policeman decided to "get hold of" at her expense. To do this, he "fabricated" criminal proceedings against her. Ex-policeman registered a non-existent statement of a Spanish citizen with a complaint about the fraudulent actions of a businesswoman. Then he introduced information to the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations. And on the false information entered in the petition, received in court a permit to search the apartment of the victim.

During the search, he threatened the owner of the apartment with criminal responsibility, physical interference and even imprisonment and demanded from the woman to transfer to him all the means at her disposal. Under pressure, the landlady gave him 30 thousand. Euro.

To cover up their actions, the policeman wrote a search report. However, the document contributed a smaller amount - about 21 thousand.

euro, and the rest of the withdrawn amount appropriated to itself.

The attacker was exposed after the appeal of the victim to the prosecutor's office.

As it turned out during the investigation, the applicant, who allegedly complained of fraud on the part of the entrepreneur, does not exist, and a person with such data never entered the territory of Ukraine at all.

The maximum sanction of articles provides imprisonment for the term up to 7 years.