
AI-generated summary
The scammers used the victim’s grandson to gain access to the apartment of an elderly Shchelkovo resident, posing as law enforcement officers and using threats.
Fraudsters stole more than 170 million rubles from an elderly resident of Shchelkovo, Moscow region. MK reported this on Wednesday, September 30.
According to the publication, the victim’s own grandson helped the attackers. The scammers contacted the teenager, introduced themselves as law enforcement officers, and threatened to force him to open the door to the apartment of an elderly relative. Once inside, they broke into the safe and took the valuables from there. The total damage due to stolen jewelry and money amounted to 172 million rubles.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Initiation of a criminal case for fraud and theft
Very likely · Within days
Search and detention of crime suspects
Likely · Within weeks

In Moscow, casting director Alexander Tropinin was arrested for 15 days for trying to film a woman under her skirt on public transport. The incident was stopped by a resident of the capital who contacted the police. The man explained that he just wanted to look, but the court found him guilty of an administrative offense.

The pilot of a FlyDubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed the co-pilot and tried to hijack the plane to crash it into the ground or an object, leading to an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

The Pereslavl District Court took into custody 49-year-old Alexey Pronin, general director of the firecracker plant in Kubrinsk (Yaroslavl region), accused of violating industrial safety and illegally manufacturing explosives. He will remain in custody until November 28.

A federal appeals court halted the execution of Krista Pike in Tennessee an hour before it was scheduled to review defense arguments about her childhood traumatic experiences. Pike, convicted in 1996 of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, had waited 28 years to be executed and could have become the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has stopped the criminal prosecution of 17-year-old Valeria, who, under the influence of scammers posing as FSB officers, stole 900 thousand rubles from someone else’s apartment, believing that she was helping in the operation. The case was closed under Article 28 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation due to a state of passion and lack of corpus delicti.

Four suspects in Thailand have been charged with nine counts, including illegal possession of weapons, impersonation of police officers, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, premeditated murder and hiding the bodies of brothers Diana and Roman Nazimov, who emigrated from Russia. They face the death penalty.