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The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has opened a criminal case against two men and a woman. They are accused of illegally organizing and conducting gambling activities outside of a designated gambling zone using the Internet, committed by an organized group with the extraction of income on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 171.2 of the Criminal Code of the RF).

It has been established that the accomplices equipped eleven premises in Simferopol, Yalta, Alushta, Kerch, Yevpatoria, Belogorsk, and Bakhchisaray, where they installed computer equipment and provided illegal gambling services to citizens.

The criminal activities of the organized group were identified and suppressed by operational officers from the republican departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Russia, with the support of the National Guard.

Equipment, money, and documentation were seized during the searches in the underground gambling rooms.

At the investigator's request, the two male organizers were taken into custody by the court, and their female accomplice was placed under house arrest. Another involved individual, a resident of the Stavropol region, fled and has been declared wanted.