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The public prosecutor’s office in Solothurn carried out a criminal investigation against a total of 15 people last summer in Thunstetten BE due to the theft of millions from a SecurePost money carrier. As can be seen in a message on Thursday, part of the stolen CHF 4.5 million has now been secured.
Several people were temporarily detained. The accused are persons from Switzerland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Germany and Turkey. The public prosecutor assumes that they were directly involved in the robbery or that they had something to do with the transmission and concealment of the crime.
Part of the crime found in Germany
On February 16, 2020, a 30-year-old German was arrested in Rosenheim, Germany, in close cooperation with the prosecutor’s office in Traunstein (D). Around 1.6 million Swiss francs were insured. The defendant confesses that he has maintained the crime for a long time. Later, around CHF 900,000 were found in the canton of Solothurn.
No violence was used and no one was injured in the robbery on July 1, 2019, which occurred while the money carrier was traveling between Oensingen SO and Thunstetten BE. The crime occurred just 15 kilometers from the SecurePost headquarters in Oensingen. As shown by a decision of the Federal Court published in December 2019, the Theft committed “with the participation of the driver” (BLICK reported).
Suspects are no longer in custody
The exact crime scene and the suspect’s alleged contribution.
they are the subject of ongoing criminal investigations. According to the Solothurn prosecution, no one is currently in custody.
Although the reload of the money carrier’s loot to a Mercedes later confiscated in Rickenbach LU was carried out in the canton of Bern, the investigations are subject to the prosecution of the canton of Solothurn. According to the prosecutor, the reason for this is that the crime “already started in the canton of Solothurn”. (no)
