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Leaders of the Bashmaki gang were detained in Crimea
Alexander Danilchenko and Nikolai Kopetinsky were detained in Crimea on suspicion of banditry and murders, the Investigative Committee reports. Danilchenko and Kopetinsky were among the leaders of the Bashmaki criminal group, which operated in the 1990s.
Under what circumstances the detention was made, the UK does not specify.
As a result of well-planned investigative and operational actions, the suspects were detained by officers of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
- The criminal group "Bashmaki", which got its name from the name of its founder Viktor Bashmakov, was created in the Crimea in the early 1990s. Danilchenko and Kopetinsky led the gang after the murder of Bashmakov in 1994.