Why did a court in Crimea sentence a 42-year-old resident of Bryansk to 12 and a half years in prison?

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The evidence collected by the Main Investigation Department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol was recognized by the court as sufficient to convict the 42-year-old resident of Bryansk. She was found guilty of organizing a criminal community, illegally organizing and conducting gambling, committed by an organizing group with the extraction of income on an especially large scale (Part 1 of Article 210, Part 3 of Article 171.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases established that since April 2014, a woman with two accomplices organized a criminal community of 20 participants on the peninsula to conduct gambling via the Internet. Eight halls with virtual slot machines were located in Krasnoperekopsk, Dzhankoy, Simferopol, Evpatoria, Yalta, Kerch and Feodosia— reported in Sledkom.

Actually — about the organizer of the “business”. For the purpose of secrecy, a resident of Bryansk organized a company allegedly specializing in over-the-counter trading, through which she drew up fictitious employment contracts with hall employees and kept accounting records.

The criminal activities of the criminal community were identified and suppressed by operational officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol in 2017. The illegal income received by the accomplices exceeded 10 million rubles.

Based on the results of the investigation by the court, the accomplices were found guilty and sentenced to various terms with compensation for the damage caused. The organizer of the criminal group hid from the investigative authorities, she was charged in absentia, and the citizen was put on the wanted list. The woman was detained in the spring of 2020 at the international airport of the Belgorod region while trying to leave the territory of the Russian Federation— reported the Investigative Committee.

The court found her guilty and sentenced her to 12 years and 6 months in a general regime correctional colony with a fine of 800 thousand rubles.

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