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| Police detain the thief of a record 1 billion rubles from a St. Petersburg bank |
| 2024-03-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] At Sochi airport, police officers detained a suspect in the theft of money and jewelry from a bank in St. Petersburg in the amount of over 1 billion rubles. He turned out to be a resident of Moldova who was trying to leave the country. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. By court decision, the man was placed under arrest until May 15. The head of the joint press service of the city courts, Daria Lebedeva, clarified on the Telegram channel that more than 1 billion rubles worth of valuables were taken from the bank’s cells. The attacker illegally entered the storage facility between March 7 and March 15. The criminal did not need to break into the premises and demand cash at gunpoint. He stole money from a room that, it would seem, should be as secure as possible, Volk noted. “Using modern technologies, the attacker gained access to a storage facility with safe deposit boxes and took out their contents,” Volk explained in the Telegram channel. As a result, three people were injured. Jewelry totaling $10 million was stolen from one woman, another lost $200,000. In addition, $250,000 and €30,000 were stolen from another client of a financial organization. Police officers found the stolen money and jewelry in a rented apartment in Lyubertsy. As the suspect himself admitted, his acquaintances became the masterminds of the crime. According to him, they provided all the necessary information to penetrate the depository and open the cells. Now investigators have to find and detain all accomplices of illegal activities. As Regnum reported, in November last year the police opened a criminal case after an armed attack at a bank in the center of Moscow with the theft of about 300 million rubles. In March, Shamil Magomedov, head of the department of “Intelligent Information Security Systems” at the Institute of Cyber Security and Digital Technologies of RTU MIREA, spoke about a new way, invented by scammers, to steal money from Russians by broadcasting the screen of a smartphone. According to him, this does not require complex technical tricks. The attackers work in pairs and call the potential victim's number using logos and phone numbers of well-known banks. In Moscow, in mid-February, the widow of a SVO participant contacted the police, more than 650,000 rubles had disappeared from his bank card. The woman noticed the loss only two weeks after the death of her husband, when she started blocking his accounts. She accused the mistress of her deceased husband of theft. |
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