The Central Internal Affairs Directorate called the most urgent vehicles of St. Petersburg - only 3% were returned

In St. Petersburg, the Ford and Chevrolet cars are more often stolen, said
Press conferences on Thursday deputy chief of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg Konstantin Mikhnyuk. Since the beginning of the year in the northern capital, an increase in the number of auto -contestants has been noted - by 14.5% to the level of the first half of 2010. 2552 cars were stolen, of which the police managed to find only 82 cars (3.25%).

- captured the organizer of the business for the sale of stolen jeeps in the suburbs

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The situation with the openness of the auto cracker in the Leningrad region is no better, where the hijackers took possession of 281 cars, of which only 29 cars were discovered, Interfax reports.

The most popular among St. Petersburg hijackers are Ford cars - 14.3% of all thefts. In second place is Chevrolet (11.6%), in the third - Mitsubishi (9.3%). More than 80% of theft falls on foreign cars.

Enjoy to order for the Caucasus

In Moscow, according to the metropolitan police, there are several organized criminal groups that are engaged in theft of expensive foreign cars. As a rule, these are immigrants from the Caucasus who have equipment for disconnecting any type of alarm, including satellite. The cost of such equipment - "scanners" - reaches 20 thousand dollars on the black market, writes RIA "Novosti" .

These organized crime groups include experts in the correspondence of car units, for falsification of documents, law enforcement officers. Most cars are stolen to order and taken to the North Caucasus Federal District.