Gang of Truck Robbers Detained in Homel Voblast

14.06.2010 15:28
Архив Редакция

Investigative officers of the Chyhunachny regional department of Homel, of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Homel Voblast executive committee, of the central administrative board of criminal investigation department of criminal police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during joint operation in Homel Voblast detained gang of robbers. They used to remove cargo from the trucks right during car movement on the line Brest-Homel. A criminal case against the robbers under article 205 of the Criminal Code of Belarus is initiated.

At night the unremarkable car of gangsters closely (sometimes at a distance of 20 centimetres) adjoined a moving truck. Then the gang leader used to force a lock or simply to open a bolt, the press-service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Homel Voblast executive committee informs.

Then the man passed on the move to the partner boxes and packings which when the car of the robbers was overflowed with stolen things, were dumped in ravines near the roads. The criminals caught up with the car and continued crime. Stolen things used to be sold at half price in the markets of Homel.

The four criminals, who are the inhabitants of Ukraine at the age from 22 till 38 years, rented the house in Krasnaya near Homel. The 29-year-old inhabitant of Lepel raion of the Vitebsk Voblast, living in Gomel was the fifth accomplice. Now four of five thieves are arrested and are in investigatory insulator. One of them managed to disappear in Ukraine, he is wanted by police.

In Belarus the gang was engaged in criminal activity from the end of 2009, basically on site from Kalinkavichy to Homel. Particular the thieves were interested in the products of the Brest enterprise «Savushkin product», Kobrin creamery, «Santa Bremor». Police officers know more than ten similar facts.

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