Photoshop gods: Rostov court arrested 25 defendants in the traffic police case

The Leninsky District COURT of Rostov arrested the defendants in a resonant criminal case on bribery of traffic police officers. This is reported by the joint press service of the courts of the region.

In particular, the court sent into custody for a period of 1.5 months 18 alleged members of an organized group, including seven policemen. Another seven suspects were placed under house arrest for the same period.

According to investigators, from 2017 to 2022, the suspects photographed cars passing on the M-4 Don highway, after which, using a graphics editor, they created fictitious evidence that these drivers violated traffic rules. The attackers passed this data to the traffic police, who were waiting for the "violators" a few kilometers along the route.

Under the pressure of fabricated evidence, traffic police officers demanded from their victims from 5,000 to 500,000 rubles. The total amount of illegally obtained funds was estimated at more than 14 million rubles.