In Transbaikalia, three local residents tracked down a freight forwarders car and stole 61 kg of gold worth 200 million rubles. The attackers were detained 640 km from the crime scene. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.
On February 21, during the parking of a Ural truck carrying precious metals, near one of the houses in the village. The New Chara men broke the padlock on the body and stole two sealed bags of gold bars and fled in an SUV.
“The perpetrators carefully prepared for the crime. They knew how to transport gold from the mine to the Kalar district. The defendants arrived in Novaya Chara in advance, followed the methods of conspiracy, tried not to meet with local residents, spent the night in a car in the forest, cooked food on a fire. After committing the theft, one of them changed clothes and shoes,” the police said.
The car of the suspects born in 1983 and 1984 was detained 640 km from the crime scene in the Amur Region. The suspects admitted that the stolen gold was buried in the snow on the side of the road. The police found a cache with a valuable cargo.
The suspects were placed in a temporary detention center. A criminal case was initiated once morest them under Part 4 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code (“Theft on an especially large scale, committed by an organized group”). The maximum penalty is ten years in prison.
