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The investigating bodies of Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative committee have launched a criminal investigation in a crime under parts 1 and 2 of article 210 of the RF Penal Code (organization of criminal community).

According to investigators, in March 2014, in Moscow three men and a woman set up an organized criminal community to get money by frauds. The organizers involved 4 more accomplices as sales managers to sell water filters with allegedly medicinal properties which did not meet the claimed requirements. The accomplices chose retired people as their potential clients as the most vulnerable group of the population.

There are at least 350 victims and the damage stands at 48 million rubles.

The said crime was solved thanks to investigative and search operations conducted by investigators of Moscow Main Investigations Directorate during the investigation in a crime under part 4 of article 159 (fraud on a very large scale).

A restraint has been chosen for all members of the criminal community and soon they are going to be charged. The investigation is ongoing.