Employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Sverdlovsk Region in Nizhny Tagil detained three members of an organized criminal group. Attackers engaged in extortion, robbery and abduction of people in Nizhny Tagil and nearby cities.

One of the suspects, born in 1996, actively resisted the detectives, tried to escape, but he failed. During a search in the residence of a citizen, police and investigators of the TFR found weapons and ammunition, items and documents relevant to the investigation of a criminal case.

In relation to the members of the group, criminal cases were instituted on 17 episodes of unlawful activity, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk region. For example, when an intruder knew that a resident of Nizhny Tagil had sold an apartment, they came to his house on Industrialnaya Street, beaten with a hammer, were forcibly removed by car, demanding that they give them the money they received. A man born in 1972, unable to endure torture, gave the torturers 100 thousand rubles.

Another way of criminal "earnings" of the group members was extortion of money from former inmates of orphanages. Having found out that large sums accumulated in some of the accounts, community members attacked young people on the street, intimidated, once even fired at two victims of traumatic weapons, so that they transferred to them the available money.

Most of the victims did not write a statement to the police, for fear of reprisal, and only after the detention of some members of the group in August last year, appealed to the police.

With respect to the suspects, criminal proceedings have been instituted on the basis of the crimes envisaged in part 2 of Article 126, part 2 of Article 162, part 2, part 3 of Article 163, part 3 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping, robbery, extortion, illegal circulation of weapons - Group).

At present, the complex of investigative and operative-search activities aimed at exposing suspects and revealing other episodes of their unlawful activities.