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Unique Book Collection Thief Was Arrested
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25-year old citizen of Krasnodarskiy region was arrested at Kursk train station in Moscow.
He is suspected in the series of robberies of the unique book shops in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
Detectives suppose that the criminal created the image that was entrusted by she shop assistants. He used it and stole the unique books. The robbery of the book shop on Pokrovka is one of the episodes of the criminal activity. The unique Russian book "Boyarskaya Duma of Ancient Russia", created in 1882 was stolen from the shop. In result, Pokrovka book shop was robbed at sum of more than 2 million rubles. Some of the books are not yet found.