Police Officer Steals From Former Classmates at Class Reunion

The victims refused to file a complaint against the man.

A police officer stole money from four of his schoolmates during a class reunion in Mykolaiv. This is reported by Crime.No.

The former classmates gathered at an establishment in the Tsentralnyi district of Mykolaiv on Saturday evening, February 1. Later, some of those present noticed that money had disappeared from their bags. It turned out that about 4,500 hryvnias in total had vanished from four bags.

The victims called police to the scene and also approached the establishment's staff. The establishment's manager reviewed the surveillance camera footage and sent the video of the incident to the victims.

The video shows that at an empty table, while everyone else had left to dance, only one person in dark clothing remained seated. He keeps his hand near a woman's bag, waits for a convenient moment, and then pulls the bag under the table. The man then takes out a wallet, removes money from it, and returns the bag to its place.

Another fragment of the video shows the man doing the same thing with another bag in the same way. When his companions return to the table, he tries as discreetly as possible to put the bag back on the sofa, placing it behind his back.

After watching the video, the man began apologizing to the victims and promised to return all the money. The victims refused to file complaints regarding their classmate.

The communications department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Mykolaiv Oblast confirmed that a call about the theft of money at this establishment was received on line 102, but when patrol officers arrived, citizens told them the incident was resolved and they would not file a complaint. After this, the patrol officers left the premises.

The person in the video looks very much like an active police officer, Captain Anton Simakov. On social media, he was identified in a photo of a company that was resting at the establishment where the incident occurred on February 1.

According to Simakov's declaration , he is a senior inspector of the Organizational and Analytical Support and Operational Response Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Mykolaiv Oblast.