The prosecutor's office demands that the assets of the organized crime group worth 6 billion rubles be converted into state income

MOSCOW, October 6 - RIA Novosti. The prosecutor's office demands to ban the extremist association in the Ivanovo region and turn 6 billion rubles of its assets into state income, the regional prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti.

Law enforcement agencies clarified to RIA Novosti that we are talking about the organized criminal community “Ivanovskoye”.

“In the Ivanovo region, the prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit to ban the activities of an extremist association and turn its assets into state income totaling more than 6 billion rubles,” the department’s press service said.

It is noted that since the 1990s, an association of 15 people was formed in the Ivanovo region, who were closely integrated into the “AUE”* movement, recognized as extremist and banned. Members of the association were engaged in extortion, robbery, robbery, forceful redistribution of economic spheres of influence, intimidation of residents, and also infiltrated government bodies. They were repeatedly convicted of serious and especially grave crimes.

According to the supervisory agency, since 2013, the association has taken control of almost the entire area of ​​passenger transportation in the region, and from 2016 to 2019, participants illegally cut down forest worth more than 30 million rubles.

“In addition, the material base was replenished by collecting funds from the so-called “supervisors” in the region of cities and districts, as well as correctional institutions. Members of the association own vehicles, about 40 companies and more than 250 expensive real estate, including production and industrial sites located in the cities of Ivanovo, Vichuga and Moscow,” the prosecutor’s office added.

They transferred illegal proceeds abroad and used them to finance measures directed against the life and health of citizens and to disrupt the activities of Russian authorities.

Currently, interim measures have been imposed on the property of the association’s participants to guarantee the execution of a future court decision.