Bandits threatened to demand money from small businesses. As the press center of the Security Service informs, threatening entrepreneurs with reprisals, the attackers monthly ripped off from them from four hundred to two thousand dollars.

At the same time, the amount depended on the size of the business. The police detained three extortionists during the receipt of another tribute from one of the entrepreneurs.

All of them were previously convicted. A criminal case is opened against them under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Extortion.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the head of the National Police of Ukraine Sergei Kniazev today said that in March this year it was reported on the suspicion of committing more than 19 thousand crimes.