Authority figure who escaped from the colony detained

Officers of the Lviv Department for Combating Organised Crime detained the criminal Kostiantyn Lytvynenko, known in criminal circles as ‘Rambo’, in the town of Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, on 22 May at approximately 16:00.

This was reported by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Lviv region, Police Lieutenant General Vasyl Pisnyi.

According to him, the criminal escaped from a place of deprivation of liberty a month ago. During a previous operation to detain him in the town of Sosnivka, Lviv region, at the end of April this year, Lytvynenko wounded an officer of the ‘Sokil’ special unit, and managed to escape. This time, the special operation to detain the dangerous criminal was completed successfully, writes WebEfir.

Pisnyi reported that after escaping from the place of deprivation of liberty, where he was supposed to serve 15 years for committing a series of serious crimes, the criminal was hiding in Sosnivka. In that village, police officers tried to detain him, however, Lytvynenko took a hostage and fired back, so he managed to escape.

On 22 May, the criminal was detained in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The court will determine his further term of imprisonment, taking into account his escape from the place of deprivation of liberty.

As Pisnyi noted, during the detention, the criminal resisted the police; a live grenade and forged documents were seized from him.

In 1997, Lytvynenko was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. Among other crimes, he was accused of murdering a crime boss with the nickname ‘Muravansky’.

After 11 years in places of deprivation of liberty, Lytvynenko was transferred to a correctional institution in Volyn, from where he escaped a month ago.