Employee Tied Up, €1.63 Million Damage: Suspect Caught 13 Years After Robbery in Wiener Neudorf

At least four perpetrators were involved in the coup on the night of April 4, 2012. Two employees were threatened by three masked men with pistols and left tied up with duct tape; they were only able to free themselves and notify the police after hours. Pallets of smartphones were loaded from a warehouse onto a truck driven by an accomplice and transported away.

13 Years After Large-Scale Robbery in Lower Austria: Suspect Refused to Testify

Subsequently, the Lower Austria State Criminal Police Office identified four suspects by name. In early 2013, two suspects were arrested in Austria. The Serbs were sentenced to several years in prison at the Wiener Neustadt Regional Court in August 2013. The sentences have already been served, the State Police Directorate announced in a statement on Wednesday. The two fugitive accomplices were put on the wanted list by the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office with a European arrest warrant.

On August 6 of this year, a 56-year-old was arrested while crossing the border from Serbia to Montenegro. He was extradited to Austria on October 16. During the interrogation, he refused to testify and is in custody at the Vienna-Josefstadt prison.

(APA/Red.)

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