According to JamJam reporter, earlier this week, a man appeared in the fifth investigation branch of the 34th District Prosecutor’s Office of Tehran and filed a complaint against three young men on charges of aggravated robbery and said: I was traveling in the west of Tehran when I decided to pick up some passengers on the way. I had not gone far when three young men asked me to take them by hand, which I accepted and they got on. After traveling a distance, two of them threatened me with a knife and asked me to change the route to the place they say.
He added: I did everything they said out of fear for my life. When we got out of the deserts around the city of Tehran, they took me out of the car and beat me severely, and then stole my Peugeot 405 car and left me half dead and ran away. With the help of a passing driver, I reached the hospital and was saved.
The case was sent to the Tehran Intelligence Police and the investigation continued until the next day, the complainant provided new information to the police department. It turned out that a man called him and claimed that he has a stolen car and if he wants to get it back, he has to pay 1 billion tomans. Otherwise, he will write off his car and sell its parts.
With the guidance of the complainant, the officers made an appointment with the caller, and under the pretext of paying money, they set the meeting place at a garden in the south of Tehran and monitored the place. An hour later, when a man on a motorcycle tried to take the wallet, he was surrounded by the police and arrested.
By transferring the information to the police, the accused started contradicting himself until he finally confessed and said: “Two of my friends and I were involved in buying and selling drugs, and each of us was imprisoned many times.” This time, when we were released, we started buying and selling drugs again, but we didn’t get good money until I suggested to my friends that we steal cars together and then extort them to return the cars to the drivers, which they accepted. A few days later, we started implementing this plan.
He added: As passengers, we boarded passing cars and threatened the drivers with knives in the middle of the road, and by kidnapping them in abandoned places or outside the city, we beat them and injured them. Then we would escape by stealing cars. From the documents in the cars, we obtained the numbers of the lost property and called them one by one and extorted money from them for returning the cars. In a few cases where we were able to extort money from them, we left the cars in secluded neighborhoods.
The accused continued: In some cases, we stole and sold the items inside the cars and then abandoned them. We stole the plaintiff’s Peugeot 405 car in the same way and demanded 1 billion tomans for its return, but when we arrived at the headquarters, the police surrounded the place and arrested us.
With his confession, his two accomplices were also arrested and they confessed to stealing cars and extorting money from their owners in face to face with him.
Nik, the investigator of the fifth branch of Tehran’s 34th District Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed this news and told JamJam: The accused are in custody. Investigations are ongoing to uncover the secrets of their other crimes.
