2024-06-20 07:37:28
- A plumber and web technicians often is the hyperlink in two robberies for over BGN 350,000.
- Ponti and Kaskata have been detained for one theft, they’re checking whether or not their comrades didn’t act with out them within the different
As an skilled plumber, Ivan Panteleev* was used to stepping in feces. Due to this fact, whereas he was fixing the pipes in the home at Kostinbrod, he didn’t abhor himself. In spite of everything, this was his job, and only some months earlier he had mounted the identical drawback in a home in Bistrica.
The plumber had no concept that very quickly he wouldn’t be the one one to know that in a brief time frame he had labored in these very 2 residences. And that these two repairs will throw him into an surprising drama.
Panteleev and the group of Web technicians turned out to be the one clear factors of contact between two main thefts that came about in only a few days within the Sofia area. Within the first assault in Kostinbrod, thieves stole over BGN 186,000 and gold for an additional BGN 40,000. The theft came about at midday on April 10.
The bandits broke the balcony door of the home the place the brother and sister lived and started to loot the primary flooring. From there they stole 5,000 kilos, 11,000 BGN, 1,000 {dollars}, 7,000 euros, a Samsung pill and 10 watches of an averagely costly model. After robbing the 69-year-old man of his valuables, the Apaches went as much as the second flooring. There they searched the girl’s bed room.
In a money register that they broke open, they discovered 60,000 euros, 25,000 BGN, about 500 grams of gold and a watch from a luxurious model. The most cost effective mannequin of it’s bought new for about BGN 20,000.
Whether or not it was due to the massive loot or one thing else, the bandits have been careless. They left too many traces and in simply 2 days forensics received to them. It turned out that the theft was the work of Nikolay Iliev-Golemiya Ponti and Nikolay Sakaliev-Kaskata. Whereas they have been in custody, nevertheless, a brand new theft came about in Bozhurishte, once more at a home repaired by Panteleev and with Web entry launched by the identical group. And this time the bandits entered by means of the terrace, however on the second flooring. Acted on the night time of April 15.
They took BGN 21,000 from the money register, and from premises in the home they stole two screwdrivers, a suitcase with battery instruments, 8 males’s and 4 ladies’s watches with a complete worth of about BGN 12,000, ranges, perforators, a passport, keys for two “Peugeot 206” vehicles ”, leather-based jacket, winter jacket, about 150-200 g of silver and gold.
The bandits additionally stole a Mercedes E class and a Mercedes GL class. The worth of the vehicles is over BGN 120,000. The criminals didn’t use keys that individuals left within the residence. Due to this fact, it’s assumed that not less than certainly one of them is a automotive thief, as is Sakaliev from Ponti’s gang.
His group was working with a number of different thieves, so it is potential that the theft was deliberate earlier than Cascata and Ponti have been in custody. In actual fact, solely per week earlier than the theft in Kostinbrod, along with the 2, Pepi Tapata was arrested. The three ended up handcuffed for robbing a goldsmith’s studio. Caught days after the hit, and though forensics discovered a way to silence the alarm, that they had no different proof and launched them with out cost.
Throughout the investigation of the 2 thefts within the Sofia area, the police requested the victims about who had been of their houses not too long ago. That is how they got here throughout the info for basic plumbers and technicians. The three have been questioned and denied having something in frequent. They might have unwittingly dropped in entrance of somebody who advised the thugs what photographs they may take.
For such info, the thieves pay between 15 and 30% of the quantity stolen. Ponti is among the bandits who act identical to that. An outdated thief, he does not even hesitate to abseil from the eleventh flooring when he is aware of there’s some first rate loot ready for him. In 2023, for instance, he was caught stealing from an condominium on the tenth flooring of a constructing. He descended there on a rope from an condominium on the higher flooring.
The person’s details about this theft got here exactly from a repairman who, after inadvertently damaging the decrease condominium, noticed that the individuals have been rich. He advised Ponti, and the bandit satisfied him to let him go. Along with their companions Kaskata and Tsetso Health, they arrange the method. Ponti went down first. Nevertheless, the bandits have been detained within the residence. Then
Ponti stripped bare and lay down within the bed room. He tried to persuade the police that this was his residence. That is why his nickname is Ponty – he has a behavior of punting.
There’s additionally a cult video of Ponti in his underpants from the arrest. “Effectively, you caught me,” says Iliev, whereas sitting on the mattress, handcuffed, “No, I wasn’t overwhelmed. I will not say. I am not 20 years outdated to lie that you just beat me”, the bandit exhibits masculinity.
He was additionally arrested in 2017, when, along with Krasi Mramorskija and Stoyan Dalgia, he arrange Petar Hubchev’s USA’94 group. At the moment he was the coach of the nationwide group. Hubchev was left with out BGN 1,000, a laptop computer and a cellphone. The bandits overcame the fence of his residence and entered by means of the balcony.
Ponti served a 6-year sentence for enjoying playing cards in Germany. He was in a Bulgarian jail after a world settlement. There have been studies that he was additionally convicted in Hungary.
The helmet is a automotive thief who retrained a few 12 months in the past and began robbing houses. He has quite a few arrests for automotive theft each in Sofia and within the countryside. He’s at present being tried within the capital, Pazardzhik and Burgas. Earlier than becoming a member of Ponti’s group and stealing from houses, he labored with Daniel Dimitrov-Dancho Releto from Naglite. In addition they have a typical lawyer – Dora Lyaleva. On the time, she was faraway from the Ministry of Inside Affairs on suspicion that, as a substitute of investigating automotive thieves, she labored with them.
Now police are fearful that whereas they may spend eight months in custody earlier than their circumstances are delivered to court docket, Ponti and Cascata can be free in not more than 60 days. The suspicion is very robust about Ponti, who produces medical certificates that he suffers from numerous illnesses. In the meantime, different clues are being sought to point whether or not there’s a connection between the 2 main robberies within the Sofia area, or whether or not it’s a coincidence. The alibis of Tapata and Fitnesa, who, like Ponti, is skilled in automotive thefts, are checked.
And till then, Panteleev will know that so as to not get soiled with the opposite feces, it’s best to look solely at these whose elimination he actually understands throughout work.
* The title has been modified deliberately – word creator.