Investigators at the Cairo Security Directorate arrested members of a gang formation whose criminal activity is specialized in committing car thefts using the “artificial key” method.
A report to the Basateen Police Station was reported by a person who decided to discover that his car had been stolen as soon as it was stopped in the department’s department, and no one was suspected of committing the incident.
By conducting investigations and through technical dealings supervised by Brigadier General Wael Ghanem, Chief of Investigation in the South Cairo Sector, it was found that behind the commission of the incident were 3 persons “with criminal information” residing in the Helwan Police Department. Others were “not reported to have been stolen” and they had a cartridge and a quantity of heroin in their possession.
-Confronting them, they admitted that they formed a gang whose criminal activity specialized in stealing cars using the “artificial key” method. They also admitted to committing 4 other thefts in the same way, and their possession of a firearm with the intent to defend their criminal activity and narcotic substances with the intent to use.
-They were also instructed to seize 3 cars of their “bad faith” clients, one of whom had criminal information, and they were residing in the Helwan Police Department.
Confronting them, they confessed to dismembering the parts of one of the seized cars and disposing of its parts by selling them, and by summoning the victims, they recognized the cars and accused them of stealing.
