A resident of Ingushetia was convicted of armed robbery at the post office in Nazran.

The Magas District Court sentenced a 42-year-old resident of Ingushetia to ten years in prison for the criminal case of a robbery at a post office in Nazran.

The court established that in May 2018, the defendant, together with five armed individuals, committed a robbery at the "Post of Russia" post office in Nazran.

They demanded that the postal workers hand over the funds intended for pension and social benefit payments to the population, but were unable to force them to comply with their demands. The participants in the robbery then took a bag with letters and correspondence, assuming that it contained money, the press service of the Ingushetia prosecutor's office reported today on their Telegram channel.

At the same time, the funds stored in the post office safe at the time of the robbery, amounting to over 3.5 million rubles, remained intact.

After committing the crime, the perpetrators fled the scene. They burned the stolen letters and correspondence, thereby causing material damage to the post office amounting to about 7 thousand rubles.

The Magas court found him guilty of robbery on a particularly large scale 1 and sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment. The convicted person will serve his sentence in a strict regime correctional colony.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Karabulak District Court issued a conviction to two 25-year-old local residents in the case of the attack on the post office. On February 8, 2019, during the robbery of the post office in Karabulak, an employee of a private security firm was injured. According to investigators, 400 thousand rubles were stolen.