“Criminal investigation officers of the Internal Affairs Administration for the Central Administrative District and the Criminal Investigation Division of the Russian MIA Division for the Presnensky District of the Russian MIA General Administration for Moscow apprehended robbery suspects,” said Russian MIA official representative Irina Volk.

The Duty Unit of the Russian MIA Division for the Presnensky District received a call from a passerby. The man reported that two men wearing medical face masks had run out of a restaurant on Rodchelskaya Street and escaped by taxi.

The policemen who arrived at the scene found out that an unknown man in a back room, menacing the restaurant's administrator with an item looking like a knife, had attacked the latter, stolen an envelope with cash and fled the scene. Meanwhile, his accomplice had stayed in the street to control the surroundings.

“As a result of investigation and search measures, officers of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Affairs Administration for the Central Administrative District and the Criminal Investigation Division of the Russian MIA Division for the Presnensky District detained one of the suspects on Nametkina Street – that is a young man aged 20. On the same day, the police captured his accomplice – a 19-year old citizen of a near-abroad country.

The investigators of the Russian MIA Division for the Presnensky District initiated a criminal case based on essential elements of a crime stipulated by Article 162 ‘Robbery’ of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The suspects were remanded in custody,” added Irina Volk.