In the Russian capital, the number of car thefts in 2000 exceeded the last year’s figure by more than twenty percent, the head of the seventh department of the Criminal Investigation Department of the GUMVD in Moscow, whose name is Andrei Baranov, told reporters on Wednesday. According to him, the metropolitan police registered more than two thousand such crimes last year, which is three hundred seventy three more than a year earlier..
In addition, over ten thousand car thefts took place in the city in two thousand and eleven (an increase of seven percent or seven hundred and eighty crimes). Theft differs from car theft in that the offender, in its case, steals the car for the purpose of its further appropriation (that is, resale). In this case, theft will be qualified, the «trick» of teenagers who climbed into someone else’s car to ride.