On April 27, the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine announced that a 34-year-old relative of a Russian “thief in law” was expelled from the country. His name was not disclosed.
The term “thief in law” is used in Ukraine to refer to someone with an elevated status of authority in the criminal community.
Officials from the department, together with the Territorial Investigation Department in the Odesa region of the police force, continue to check details of criminal world associates, who could destabilise the political situation in the region, as well as the possible cooperation of gangs affiliated with the enemy.
During the investigation, the officers received information about the presence in Odesa of a “criminal authority” with ties to the Russian criminal world. This is another important achievement in the fight against Ukrainian collaborators with the Russian invaders.
At the beginning of April, in the Vinnytsia region, law enforcement officers and border guards prevented a meeting of criminals in Mogilev-Podilsky who had planned to coordinate spheres of influence across the region.
