Officers Stop Armed Robbery at Tashkent Training Center

Officers from the Tashkent City Department of Internal Affairs worked with the State Security Service. They stopped an armed robbery at a training center in Tashkent. An armed robbery is when thieves try to take money by force. Officers held three people before the thieves got the money.

A former guard at the center planned it. He was born in 1995. He knew a large amount of money was kept there. He asked people he knew to help.

He was to study the building. He was to show where the money was kept. Another person was to turn off the power.

They planned to wear masks. They planned to enter through a back door. They had rented a car in advance.

One person in the group dressed as a woman. This was to hide who he was and to confuse witnesses. According to investigators, they planned to leave through Fergana Region. They wanted to go to a nearby country.

Investigators opened a criminal case. It is under Article 164 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan. The three people are under arrest. Investigators are still working on the case.