{"id":595547,"date":"2026-10-29T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=595547"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:34:57","slug":"filed-complaints-with-various-authorities-police-arrest-extortion-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/filed-complaints-with-various-authorities-police-arrest-extortion-suspects","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFiled Complaints With Various Authorities.\u201d Police Arrest Extortion Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Interior Ministry has reported the arrest of four men who allegedly extorted a stake in a business from an entrepreneur. They used numerous complaints to various authorities as a means of pressure.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA 53-year-old native of a neighbouring country, who is a co-owner of one of the enterprises in Orsha, conspired with three residents of the Vitsyebsk region to deliberately spread defamatory information about the company\u2019s 59-year-old co-founder and his family. The suspects filed complaints with various authorities, deliberately exaggerating violations at the organisation,\u201d<\/em> the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, during face-to-face meetings with the victim, the suspects demanded that he transfer a stake in the business worth around 350,000 rubles to them in exchange for not disclosing the information.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened on charges of extortion by a group of persons on an especially large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has reported the arrest of four men who allegedly extorted a stake in a business from an entrepreneur. They used numerous complaints to various authorities as a means of pressure. \u201cA 53-year-old native of a neighbouring country, who is a co-owner of one of the enterprises in Orsha, conspired with three residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":595548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ae32154e8c75.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cFiled Complaints With Various Authorities.\u201d Police Arrest Extortion Suspects"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595556,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595547\/revisions\/595556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}