Court arrests Maybach hijacker from Moscow City

A man, who stole a Mercedes Maybach from the underground parking lot of one of the towers of "Moscow-City," is in custody. This was reported in the capital prosecutor's office on December 9.

The agency said that the man entered the underground parking lot, walked among the foreign cars parked there and saw that there was an electronic key near the wheels of the Maybach.

"I picked up the key fob, pressed the 'open' button, the alarm went off and the doors unlocked. I decided to drive the Mercedes around Moscow, as I had never driven such a car," the prosecutor's office quoted the figure's testimony in its Telegram channel.

The man got behind the wheel and drove through the streets of Moscow, although he did not have a driver's license. On the way, the hijacker was distracted by the phone and got into an accident. After that he abandoned the wrecked car and fled.

The prosecutor's office said that the attacker is a 32-year-old resident of the Perm region, he had previously been tried. The man was charged under part 3 of article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Theft, causing especially large material damage"). The court took into account the position of the Presnenskaya inter-district prosecutor's office and arrested the defendant.

Maybach was stolen from the underground parking lot earlier, on December 2. It was specified that the owner of the foreign car - billionaire and businesswoman Elena Berenshtein, the car cost 21 million rubles. She said that she herself left the keys near the wheel. The wrecked car was found in the south-east of Moscow, in a ditch near the Kuskovsky forest park.