The incident involved four students who abducted a man and loaded him into a car trunk, after which they arranged a transfer of 500,000 rubles to themselves. This account comes from REN TV, citing its own sources.
In Sevastopol, on the morning of March 13, the four students allegedly targeted a man near the TsUM shopping center on Vakulenchuk Street. The group reportedly forced him into a car by a method described as brute force, then moved around the city with the victim in the trunk. The money order for 500,000 rubles was sent after the abduction, according to initial reports.
After their arrest, the suspects reportedly claimed that the victim owed them the money and that the abduction was an act of self-directed retaliation in an attempt to recover what they believed was owed to them.
A criminal case has been opened against the suspects under the charge of abduction.
Earlier coverage noted a separate incident involving concern for a child: an eight-year-old boy said a man in a car attempted to abduct him on his way to school with his mother, prompting safety alerts in the area.