What Happens When you Scam the Wrong People? (Who is Igor Komarov Father?)

[u/stalino2023]

Recommend to read the last post before about the kidnapping of Igor Komarov

On February 15 Igor Komarov was Kidnapped, Four days later on February 19, a video appears online, showing Igor with bruises on his eyes, addressing his parents "Mom, Dad, I beg you please help me.

The video shows Igor with a bare torso, his face is bruised, he looks exhausted, his voice is plaintive, Igor asks his parents to pay a ransom, otherwise they will not leave him alive, the ransom amount is an impressive $10 Million dollars.

In the video Igor says: "You stole the 10 Million that they asked you for, please return these 10 Million, please"

Igor very often repeats, literally every other word: "please, I beg you, I ask you", he complains that he feels bad, that his legs and ribs are broken, and that he is being threatened with death if they don't get the money "Please Pay them back, I swear I return it all".

Where does this rather large figure of 10 Million come from? And why did the criminals decided that they could get so much for Igor's life? Komarov’s father Sergey Komarov, is a well-known person in criminal circles, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the leader of an organized criminal group (OCG/OPG), his area of activity was extortion, protection of Markets, Stalls and Gas stations.

Sergey Komarov operated in the Donetsk Oblast, as he himself was originally from there, specifically from the city of Kramatorsk, his son Igor was also bron there, In 1997.

Sergey Komarov have a criminal nickname Kamar - Mosquito, Kamar went from being a racketeer in the 90s to becoming a regional criminal authority.

Since 2014 he been involved in organizing offices, primarily in the city of Dnipropetrovsk, which now called Dnipro, offices is the nickname for fraudulent call centers that steal money, most of those kinda of offices in Ukraine located in Kyiv and Dnipro.

Experts estimate that the network of fraudulent call centers earns up to 1 Million dollars per month, income depends on the scale of the organization, how many offices are under the same criminal network, how many employers and such.

So 10 Million dollars might not be such an abstract number? could be the offices connected to the Komarov Family hit the jackpot, but they ended up calling the wrong people, now those people want their money back, and they ready to kill for it.

[u/stalino2023]

Here is a link to the Videos of Igor Komarov during his captivity