The Warsaw prosecutor's office announced on Monday that it will prosecute a group of people they accuse of killing five elderly people with adulterated alcohol in order to take their property.
The Warsaw district prosecutor's office in Prague announced that the six-member gang will be tried as of July 12 for "five murders, six attempted murders and 18 crimes of document fraud" in the last five years.
According to the information provided, three of the defendants were looking for lonely elderly people without family members, who were in a vulnerable situation and who owned some property, whom they approached to establish a friendship and cultivate their affection.
After getting, with small favors and helping them with domestic chores, that these people considered them trustworthy, they convinced them to issue a favorable will for them or sign powers that would allow them to manage their assets.
Next, they provided them with alcohol adulterated with isopropanol to gradually poison them and, when they died, they seized their homes thanks to the collaboration of a notary who acted as an accomplice.
The prosecution's investigation revealed that this gang killed at least five victims and was currently preparing to kill another six after gaining their trust.
One of the latter was a Warsaw pensioner at whose home police found a 1.5-litre bottle of water with a high content of isopropanol.
At the time of the arrest, the police found in possession of the defendants the equivalent of 90,000 euros in cash, several cars and eight real estate properties that had belonged to the deceased, as well as debts of more than 110,000 euros, contracted in the name of the victims who were still alive.
The authorities were put on the band's trail by the testimony of a woman who had a relationship with one of the members of the criminal group, whose mission was to verify in the registry what properties the elderly owned.
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