Up to eleven years for armed kidnapping gang in Tyumen
A Russian court has sentenced an organiser and two gang members for kidnapping and extortion. Kommersant, citing the courts’ press service, reports prison terms of eleven, ten and nine years.
Tyumen Regional Court has sentenced three men in an armed kidnapping and extortion case. Kommersant reported on 2 November that the organiser received eleven years in prison and two participants ten and nine years. Each also received two years of restrictions on liberty. According to the court press service cited by the newspaper, five men formed a gang between October 2024 and February 2025 using a homemade firearm.
The court found that the group targeted two young men in February 2025. One victim was lured to a flat, threatened with a pistol and assaulted while five million roubles were demanded. The other was kidnapped in the street and taken to his own flat, where two million roubles were demanded. Both had their passports taken. The investigation followed their complaints to police. A fourth participant had already been sentenced after a cooperation agreement; the fifth person’s case was separated.
