In the Volgograd region detained suspects in the theft of 7 tons of sunflower

The duty part of the police of the Novonikolaevsky district appealed 43-year-old head of the peasant farm. She said that on September 12, unknown persons stole more than 7 thousand kg of sunflower from her field for 115 thousand rubles, the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Volgograd region reported.

During the operational-search activities, suspects were identified. They were a 38-year-old individual entrepreneur of Novonikolaevsky district and a 31-year-old tractor driver. Taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching them, the men collected oilseeds in a foreign field, transported them and placed them in a warehouse.

The detainees confessed to what they had done. They explained that they had appropriated the crop, assuming that the field had no owner. Find out the ownership of farmland men did not. Part of the sunflower they managed to implement.

The investigator of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Novonikolaevsky district opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "Theft committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy." Attackers face imprisonment for up to 5 years.