Damascus-SANA
The Criminal Security Branch in Damascus has arrested a gang that steals electrical cables from transformers and entrances to buildings in the Dummar and Dumr projects.
The Ministry of Interior stated in a statement that SANA received a copy of today that through diligent follow-up and close monitoring, the Criminal Security Branch in Damascus was able to arrest a gang that steals electrical wires, they are called “Mohammed.
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She added that large iron scissors and burned electric wires were confiscated from them, and one of them was caught in possession of a counterfeit coin of one hundred dollars. .
They also confessed, according to the statement, to using the drug hashish, stealing diesel from electric generators, and selling the stolen items to a person named “Raki.A.” In it were bags containing quantities of burnt copper wires, coated electric cables, and 21 gallons full of gasoline, from which the sum of four million nine hundred and twenty-one thousand Syrian pounds was confiscated, which is the price of the stolen copper cables. The so-called “Mohammed Ghaith” was also arrested.
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The ministry indicated that the confiscated amounts were deposited with the Central Bank of Syria in assets, and the cables and electric wires were handed over to the General Company for Cable Industry in Damascus, and the necessary action was taken against those arrested, and they will be presented with the confiscations to the competent judiciary.