In China, the robber lived under the name of his brother for 19 years

In 2002, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, a daring crime occurred: a gang of seven people kidnapped and robbed a local resident. Six accomplices were quickly captured, but the seventh, a certain Chen, managed to escape.

Five years later, the police received “iron” information: Chen died in a terrible car accident. The case was safely closed. However, in fact, behind the wheel of the crashed car was his older twin brother. Taking advantage of the resemblance and documents of the deceased, the fugitive was literally resurrected under a false name and moved to the neighboring province of Anhui.

His mother and sister, as well as all the inhabitants of his native village, participated in this conspiracy of silence. For about two decades, they successfully led the investigation by the nose. But 19 years later, while routinely checking databases, operatives noticed strange inconsistencies in the biography of the “deceased”.

To unwind the tangle of lies, detectives had to go for a trick. They found the former lover of the twin who died in an accident. The girl easily confirmed that it was the older brother who crashed in the car many years ago, not Chen himself.

When the facts came together, the relatives finally stopped denying themselves. The fugitive was twisted right in his new home. Now the “resurrected” bandit faces a real sentence of three to ten years for a long-standing crime, writes ki-news.ru.