Three women were sentenced to six years in prison each for robbing the home of Ukrainian Ambassador Serhii Pohoreltsev, taking around 150,000 euros in cash as well as luxury watches and bags in a safe that they could not open. The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Madrid has increased the initial sentences imposed to four years because the court does not consider that the 30,000 euros returned to repair the damage will compensate for the theft and destruction. The thieves entered the house in the central Madrid district knowing that neither the ambassador nor his father-in-law, with whom he was temporarily living, had left the house. Despite the supposed increase in the ambassador’s security due to the war declared by Russia, which had already been going on for two months, the women opened the door using the slip method, hung around the house at will for half an hour and left the house with my weight of the safe, where the money was.
The first verdict of the Provincial Court of Madrid considered it proven that at around four o’clock in the afternoon of April 29, 2022, three women of Croatian nationality between the ages of 24 and 27 (Naomi S., Patricia J. and Kimberley J.) they I entered the House without any problems by simply operating and pushing the latch with a flat, hard, semi-rigid object. There was no one in the house, not even in the block that the embassy staff were responsible for cleaning, nor the porter. They spent half an hour stealing and then with great difficulty left the house with a safe until they took a rented Fiat Panda in which they left the house. Everything was recorded by surveillance cameras.
The now convicted women stole branded bags, watches and luxury clothing and also stole the safe in which 111,500 euros, 30,000 dollars and 4,600 hryvnias were kept. For example, they bought a Chopard watch, Happy Sport model, made of gold and diamonds for around 12,000 euros or a Bulgari Serpenti bag for around 3,000 euros. They were arrested a few days after a very similar robbery involving the same car.
Last February, the court sentenced them to four years in prison for a sustained violent robbery of an inhabited house with the mitigating factor of repairing the damage since each contributed 10,000 euros in the trial, but now the TSJM increases the sentence by two years of this mitigating factor Circumstance to be verified as requested by the Ambassador. The judges consider that the amount of 30,000 euros (10,000 euros each) paid by the defendants before the trial as civil liability “is far from being the total amount” requested by both the private prosecution and the public prosecutor. It was the ambassador himself who appealed the verdict, as he was dissatisfied with the compensation for damages that the first verdict court had accepted.
Police identified the three women through surveillance cameras and arrested them on May 9, 2022 when they allegedly committed another robbery. They have been in prison ever since, reports Efe. The Chamber accepted the appeal of the Ukrainian ambassador, but not that of the defendants, who claimed that their rights had been violated since the authorship of the robbery had not been proven and that it had to be taken into account that some of them suffer from borderline personality disorder, personality disorder, depression and habitual drug use.
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