The key facts

  • Three suspects detained, including a former guard of the training center born in 1995
  • Seized: masks, a hammer, bags, gloves, walkie-talkies, door-opening devices, copies of keys and a foreign passport
  • A case opened under Part 2 of Article 164 of the Criminal Code — robbery committed by a group with the use of weapons

What happened

In Tashkent, a planned armed robbery of one of the training centers was prevented. The operation was carried out by officers of the capital's Interior Department together with the State Security Service.

The plan and the roles of participants

According to the investigation, the organizer was a former guard of the center, born in 1995, who knew that a large sum of money was kept at the facility and recruited acquaintances to prepare the crime. Each participant was assigned a separate role: one was to study the situation inside in advance and report where the money was kept, another was to cut off the electricity. The masked group planned to enter through the back door, put the money into bags and take it away in a rented car; one of the participants was to wear women's clothing to conceal the crime and distract witnesses. The investigation also established that after the attack the suspects planned to leave the country through the Fergana region.

Detention and seized items

All three suspects were detained before they could get hold of the money. Masks, a hammer, bags, gloves, walkie-talkies, door-opening devices, copies of keys and a foreign passport were seized from them. The investigative department opened a case under Part 2 of Article 164 of the Criminal Code (robbery committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy with the use of weapons or objects used as weapons). A pre-trial detention measure has been applied to the suspects, and the preliminary investigation continues.