MOSCOW, December 4 A Muscovite wrote a statement to the police about the theft of his car in order not to pay the fines that began to come to him after the sale of the car, and began a defendant in a criminal case, the press service of the capital's main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported.
According to the department, in the east of the capital, a 47-year-old man contacted the police department with a report of the theft of a car worth 160 thousand rubles. According to the applicant, he parked his car on Steelworkers Street, and then discovered it was missing.
«»As a result of the inspection, the police determined that there was no theft of the vehicle. It turned out that the owner sold the car back in 2021, but did not deregister it. Soon after the sale, he began to receive numerous receipts for payment of fines for violations Traffic regulations. In order not to pay them, he made up a story about theft,” the Moscow police said.
The press service of the headquarters added that a criminal case has been opened for knowingly false denunciation of a crime (Article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Person under recognizance not to leave.