Police caught the highway gang of thieves who stole from foreigners

After a two-year long investigation, the Criminal Department of Bács-Kiskun County Police Headquarters caught the highway gang of thieves who had stolen from foreigners in several Hungarian counties. Prosecution is proposed against the suspects.

The investigation started in 2018, as numerous property crimes were committed against drivers on the Hungarian highways. Police investigated several months of reports, and it turned out that from November 2017 to September 2018, 53 similar crimes took place across the country in the parking lots and rest areas of the highways.

In most of the cases, the victims were foreigners.

Later on, it turned out that the suspects thought that non-Hungarian citizens might not even report, so the crimes would not come to light. However, investigators searched for the cases and contacted the victims.

The thieves chose different methods: some of the victims were just resting in their cars without realising the theft; while in other cases, the perpetrators broke the windows of the vehicles to commit the crime.

In each case, the perpetrators hacked cars and trucks parked on the highways and confiscated cash, documents, telephones, bank/credit cards, and personal belongings. The Police also found tires and technical items that had been stolen, along with 45 coffee-makers and 98 boxes of machine tools.