Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat

[D-Mack]

Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat
20:2728/10/2009

NOVOSIBIRSK, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - A pensioner couple from west Siberia have reported the theft of some $17 million from a Moscow flat, a police source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The Novosibirsk couple, 83-year-old Nikolai Rovbel and his wife, 72-year-old Zoya, filed the suit after their lawyer reported on Monday the disappearance of $6 million and 7 million euros in cash from his rented flat in an ordinary residential area of southeast Moscow.

The incident has been labeled the "theft of the century" by the Russian media.

The couple inherited the money from their unmarried and childless son, who recently died at the age of 47. Sergei Rovbel was the head of the Russian Krastonnel construction company.

It is still not clear why lawyer Eugene Skoblikov, a former assistant to Sergei who was working on formalizing the inheritance, took the money out of the bank and brought it to his flat, where he kept it in a number of suitcases. $6 million in $100 bills would weigh around 70 kgs, a Bank of Russia official told the Rossiskaya Gazeta paper.
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http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091028/156625977.html

Careful with the money under your mattress,but it looks like € are just a bit more in favor than $ (7 to 6)

[Anon21456]

Re: Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat

"Careful with the money under your mattress,but it looks like € are just a bit more in favor than $ (7 to 6)"


Nah, he only spent the $$$ faster because they are more liquid. Euros are not widely accepted

[c1ue]

Re: Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat

Nah, he only spent the $$$ faster because they are more liquid. Euros are not widely accepted

I don't know about that.

I just had a transaction where the normal US$ or ruble payment had to be delayed; not enough rubles and no dollars. Only Euros.

[Shakespear]

Re: Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat

took the money out of the bank and brought it to his flat,

So that he could later send his "friends" to retake it back to him.

The couple is luck they are alive. A friend of mine (he is a foreigner) wanted to change a contract for some services in a joint venture company (Russian-European). One night there was a knock knock on his door. Two huge guys forced their way into the apartment, roughed him up and stole his laptop.

He quickly realized that this had nothing to do about stealing a laptop as he had cash and other valuable in the apartment. Next day he found an excuse to change his mind about the contract. He got the message.

The normal procedure is to send some goons at night, beat the hell out of the people and finish the business they came to "transact". Being alive means you were lucky.

[don]

Re: Russian pensioners report theft of $17 million from Moscow flat

So that he could later send his "friends" to retake it back to him.

The couple is luck they are alive. A friend of mine (he is a foreigner) wanted to change a contract for some services in a joint venture company (Russian-European). One night there was a knock knock on his door. Two huge guys forced their way into the apartment, roughed him up and stole his laptop.

He quickly realized that this had nothing to do about stealing a laptop as he had cash and other valuable in the apartment. Next day he found an excuse to change his mind about the contract. He got the message.

The normal procedure is to send some goons at night, beat the hell out of the people and finish the business they came to "transact". Being alive means you were lucky.

You could end up on the bottom of a pool. Hmmm. I see....;)