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The number of victims decreased by 3.7 percent, although officials did not disclose any specific figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, Pozirk. Authorities recorded 61 extortion cases in the Hrodna region in the first half of 2026, twice as many as in the same period last year, the regional prosecutor\u2019s office said. This year, nearly one in three crimes recorded in the region has been classified as a cybercrime, with the number of such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-198078","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prosecutors: extortion, cybercrime rise in Hrodna region | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 31, Pozirk. 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