Man accused of stealing 18
tons of chocolate to pay off debts
A delivery truck driver has been
charged with stealing 18 tons of chocolate in the city of Saransk to pay off a
debt, a police spokesperson said on Friday.
In a statement posted on the Interior Ministry’s
website titled “The case smells like chocolate,” police spokeswoman Irina Wolf
said that a 54-year-old delivery truck driver had been charged with theft for
taking off with the chocolate — valued at 2.5 million rubles ($38,000) — from a
local car park in Saransk in August 2016.
The police statement said that the suspect had stolen the
chocolate with the aim of paying off previously-accrued debts.
In 2014, three
suspects reportedly stole two truckloads
of chocolate worth $375,000 from a confectionery east of Moscow.
