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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 January 2023)
The heist was lost in translation.
An attempted bank heist in Üsküdar, Istanbul, brought to mind the
wildly popular Spanish TV show "La Casa de Papal". According to
passport records, Ukranian Andrii Sushikov (50) came to Istanbul in
February 2021. In April of that year, Sushikov rented a safety deposit
box in a bank in Üsküdar and went to the bank to open the box a few
times that month.
On 14 April 2021, Sushikov came to the bank with a sachel, wanting
to open his box again. A bank official escorted Sushikov to the cash
box room and left him there by himself. However (!), when the bank
official heard the sound of a number of cash boxes being opened, she
looked in, saw that Sushikov was fiddling with boxes other than his
own and locked him inside. Police were called and Sushikov was
taken into custody.
Sushikov was found to have 5 cash box keys and counterfeit dollars
on his person. A police investigation determined that Sushikov's
fingerprints were on the other cash boxes. The "expert witness"
report submitted to the court stated that the cash boxes are
opened with an eight-tooth key and each time Sushikov came to the
cash box room he put paste on one of the teeth of his own key in a
successful effort to copy the other keys. He also had a copy of the
master key that bank officials use in case of emergencies. (!)
Sushikov rejected the accusations, asserting that the keys and money
he had on him were his property and that the fingerprints found on
the other boxes were not his. (!) Nevertheless, Sushikov was
convicted of theft against the owners of the four other boxes and
sentenced to 17 years 6 months in jail. The sentence was upheld on
appeal.
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