Fake SSU officers demanded $65,000 from a doctor in the Khmelnytskyi region
Last December, three men arrived at a medical facility in the Kamianets-Podilskyi district. They identified themselves as officers of the Security Service of Ukraine and demanded that a doctor pay US$65,000 for a non-existent debt.
If she refused, the suspects threatened to spread information about her allegedly issuing fictitious disability certificates.
The doctor agreed to hand over the funds and contacted the police. Under their supervision, she handed over part of the sum, amounting to 5,000 dollars.
In addition, one of the suspects offered the woman the chance to participate in the creation of fictitious disability groups in return for payment.
The three men have been notified of their status as suspects in the extortion of money under threat of disclosing information that the victim wished to keep confidential, committed by a group of individuals acting in concert.
One of them has also been charged with inciting the provision of an unlawful benefit to a public official.
The court imposed a preventive measure on the suspects in the form of detention, with the possibility of bail set at 1.9 million hryvnias for each.
