Constantine Gabriel Dumitru alleged author of millionaire heist of wine bottles at restaurant Cáceres Atrium on October 27, 2021, hOn Tuesday, he was dismissed in his case for stealing a whiskey worth 5,250 euros from a “gourmet” store in the Salamanca area. Madrid in May 2019.
At the hearing held at Madrid Criminal Court No. 8, the prosecutor defended the indictment. One-and-a-half years in prison for the accusedThe 48-year-old and Romanian and Dutch national will also pay 3,720 euros to the store company and 1,529 euros to the insurance company.
Suspect announced with zoom from the penitentiary center Cáceres, who has been in temporary prison since her arrest with 29-year-old ex-Mexican Priscila Lara Guevara, for theft of 45 bottles worth 1.6m euros at the Atrio hotel-restaurant.
Both arrested in July 2022 Arriving from Montenegro, Karasovicu is at the Croatian border post of Sutorina.
The defendant emphasized that since he lived in the vicinity of General Díaz Porlier, he was a regular customer of the Lavinia store located at 16 Calle de José Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, but never received a bottle without payment.
The prosecutor surmised that Constantín Gabriel Dumitru had evidenced the theft through video surveillance of the building, statements from the legal representative and storekeeper, and statements from the police. Arrested while leaving the workplace with his daughter on August 8, 2017, Dr.
The prosecutor reported in his report that it was around half past three in the afternoon of May 7, 2019. The defendant stole a bottle of Balvenie whiskey worth 5,250 Euros from the building. He said it was in an area reserved for expensive drinks called La Cava, like the wines stolen from the Atrio de Cáceres restaurant, and has yet to be found.
The legal representative of the store company said: The accused entered La Cava with a salesman, as access requires fingerprinting, and taking advantage of the fact that the employee had another addiction, he took the bottle. and hid it in a vest, confirming it when he saw the footage of the security cameras.
The store manager stated that he recognized the accused when he saw the footage as a customer, and when he saw that he returned to the store in August, he informed the police as instructed.
Three national police announced After receiving the report from the store, they came to the scene and arrested the suspect, whom they knew from the security camera records, as the suspect of the theft.
Defense attorney Silvia Córdoba estimates that it has not been proven that her client received that bottle, or that what appears in the video is the 5,250-euro bottle guaranteed by the establishment.
Demanding the acquittal of his client, who said, “There is not always milk in the bottle and white,” the lawyer said that in case of conviction, an unjust delay mitigating reason would be applied.