Investigators are investigating a criminal case against the founder of the Private Military Company (PMC) Yastreb, Alexei Maroshenko, as well as its participants. This was reported in the Kommersant newspaper on Wednesday, April 1.
The defendants are currently in pretrial detention, and are accused of fraud, extortion, weapons theft, and murder. According to investigators, members of the private military companies deceived about 100 people who expected to work on better terms than those in the Ministry of Defense units.
The victims were 95 people who entered military service through military registration and conscription offices. They were offered to “help” serve in private military companies in exchange for money, and also collected money under far-fetched pretexts – to buy property, help families of the wounded and dead, according to reports. edition.
Before that, in Ussuriysk, police officers and the FSB also detained two men and a woman suspected of extorting money from mothers and wives of military personnel who died while performing combat duties during a special military operation (SVO).