In Sevastopol, a group of people who carried out gambling was sentenced

In Sevastopol, a verdict was passed against members of an organized group involved in illegal gambling. Having agreed with the position of the state prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office of the city of Sevastopol, the court issued a guilty verdict in a criminal case against members of an organized group: a resident of Moscow born in 1977. and four residents of Sevastopol born in 1992, 1982, 1978 and 1975. They were found guilty under Part 3 of Art. 171.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization and conduct of gambling using gaming equipment outside the gambling zone, using the Internet, organized by a group, associated with the extraction of income on an especially large scale).

It was established that the attackers, from October 2018 to May 2021, illegally organized the activities of gambling establishments outside the gambling zone, using the Internet. The total income of the criminal group amounted to almost 63 million rubles. Gambling was carried out using computer equipment and programs in rented non-residential premises at two addresses in the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol: on Pobeda Avenue and on the street. Levanevsky. To participate in the games, visitors handed over money to the operator-administrators to deposit into a virtual account, after which they made a “bet.” If certain criteria or their combinations were met, participants took away the cash prize,” reported the press service of the Sevastopol prosecutor’s office.

interdistrict investigative department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

Gambling equipment was confiscated from the criminals, including 74 system units and 57 monitors, cash register equipment, mobile phones and cash in the amount of over 270 thousand rubles. The Nakhimovsky District Court of Sevastopol, taking into account the opinion of the state prosecutor, sentenced the three guilty to real imprisonment for terms of 3 years 3 months and 3 years 6 months in a general regime correctional colony with a fine of 300 to 500 thousand rubles each . Two convicts were sentenced to 1 year and 6 months of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 1 year.