The authors of the robbery of an ATM in Plovdiv were revealed, one is detained (OBZOR)

The authors of the robbery of an ATM in Plovdiv revealed that one of them had been arrested (OBZOR)

11 July 2018 | 19:48

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Plovdiv. One of the men who blew up an ATM machine in the Trakia area of ​​Plovdiv is being detained – a 29-year-old Moldovan citizen, Evgeni Nedelev. This was announced during a special briefing today by the Deputy Regional Prosecutor of Plovdiv Rumyana Kaleeva. According to her, the perpetrators were two, but the second managed to escape outside the country. Announced for search. The stolen amount of ATM is BGN 215,000. The captured person was charged and detained for 72 hours with an order from the prosecutor. We expect Friday to see his detention measure. Some of the money – 88,000 leva, was found in a change office, being recognized for burning banknotes as a result of the blast. I am still working to establish the ATM blowing method, baduming that it has exploded with LPG. In the words of the chief secretary of the chief commissioner of the Ministry of the Interior, Mladen Marinov, the discovered criminals are also concerned about the attempted theft of an ATM machine made this month in Sofia. He said that the same vehicle and the same means were used. There will always be a process of investigation and investigation. The Secretary General also said that the police officers of the regional directorates of the Ministry of the Interior in Plovdiv, Sliven, Burgas, Varna and Sofia-city worked quickly and on a case-by-case basis where the perpetrators stayed for a while, which quickly neutralized the group. . "These are foreign citizens who migrate and commit these crimes in different countries, then move to other countries and are therefore difficult to detain," said Commander Mladen Marinov. In Plovdiv, they stole the registration numbers of another car, near the ATM, just before the flight. With categorical consideration, the availability of video surveillance in Plovdiv has yielded a positive result, commented the CEO. Commissioner Marinov.
Thanks to the Europol system, it will be verified whether established persons who have robbed an ATM in Plovdiv have such offenses in other countries, said Chief Commissioner Hristo Terziiski, Director of DG Police national. He explained that it would be checked if they were related to old unresolved crimes in our country, saying that three years ago, a Moldovan group had also stolen from the ATMs in Razjevo Konare and Ustina
"We contacted Moldovan colleagues and found that the detainee had been prosecuted for theft in Moldova and several times declared sought by the services," said Commissioner Hristo Terziiski. He recalled that another group of Moldovans who had been stolen from a service station in Shumen and two of the four established perpetrators were arrested this year. According to Terziiski in Bulgaria, cases of ATM flights are significantly lower than those of other Western European countries, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands
The two Moldovans who were managing the ATM in Plovdiv had a companion who served screen, said the director of ODAMR – the chief commissioner of Plovdiv, Atanas Ilkov. He explained that she was also Moldovan, but until now, she has not known what her companions are doing. The inmate did not explain why he preferred this ATM, but the police have a logical explanation for this – the ATM is located in one end of the city and an easy place to withdraw from the bank. ;accident. Through video surveillance, the police had the direction of the robber car after the crime, and from what part they left the city. Thus, the police knew the direction in which the perpetrators were directed and stole the car registration numbers that they moved to Burgas. After operational research events, he reached the place in the district of "Slaveykov" in Burgas, where the car was standing for a few days
One of the perpetrators was captured in a car wash, where he tried to remove traces of the theft of the car. After his detention, he was undoubtedly directly involved in the crime committed in Plovdiv. The police continue to detain the second author. Up to now, it has not been established that individuals have established lasting links with other people in Bulgaria.
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