The State Police, as part of an activity coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Milan, carried out in Milan and Cesate (MI) the arrest of a crime suspect issued by the prosecutors of the VII Department against two Serbian citizens aged 56 and 66 years old, both with police records, seriously suspected of being the perpetrators of numerous thefts, committed between October and December 2023, in prestigious jewelery shops, large hotels and luxury shops located in the Milanese fashion district.
The investigation activity, conducted by the policemen of the Property Crimes Section of the Flying Squad, began after the theft committed last 27 October by two men who had stolen a necklace worth 123 thousand from a jewelery shop in via Monte Napoleon. Two days later, on 29 October, the same people committed the theft of 10 bottles of wine with a total value of around 200 thousand euros from a prestigious hotel in Via del Gesù.
The following November 5, the two men, together with a third person, carried out another theft, this time at the jewelery shop located inside a luxury hotel in Via dei Giardini, removing a necklace whose price was is around 100 thousand euros.
According to what was reconstructed by the agents, the last coup carried out by the criminal group would be the one committed on the eve of Sant'Ambrogio when, inside the department stores on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, a bottle of champagne wine worth 3.200 was stolen EUR.
The investigative activity carried out by the Flying Squad, currently in the preliminary investigation phase, has made it possible to promptly reconstruct all the criminal episodes, to identify the perpetrators, all Serbian citizens, and to acquire numerous and serious indications of guilt against them, such as to lead to the issuance of measures restricting the liberty of two of them.
Two other Serbian citizens have currently been handed over to the judicial authorities in a state of freedom.
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