Fifteen employees of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions (DIP) are accused of favoring the activity of the criminal organization Makena on the territory of the country’s penitentiaries. According to a communiqué from the Prosecutor General’s Office, they are accused of abuse of power and interference in the legal and prosecution processes, IPN reports.
The police are investigating both employees of penitentiaries and representatives of the administration of the DIP. The given persons are accused of not ensuring the security of convicts who cooperated with the prosecution bodies in elucidating this case. They created unbearable detention conditions for them, making them change their depositions.
Last April, 11 members of the criminal organization Makena were sentenced to 175 years together for blackmail, creation and management of a criminal organization and participation in it. The culprits formed part of the criminal group led by the so-called thief in law Vladimir Moscalciuc, alias Makena, who serves time in prison for committing serious and very serious crimes.
The criminal case was started at the beginning of 2010 after a number of prisoners complained about use of violence and threats with death against them. In 1999-2010, Moscalciuc created the criminal organization Makena that consisted of several criminal subgroups. One of them worked on the territory of Pruncul Penitentiary.
In order to create funds for supporting the subgroups and for recruiting members from among detainees, the members of the organization blackmailed the prisoners. The latter, being threatened with death, were forced to pay large sums of money. The money was extorted from the relatives of the convicts by different illegal schemed that were tolerated by employees of the DIP.
