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Bad Kreuznach (dpa / lrs) - Two fake police officers have been arrested in Bad Kreuznach and Berlin.
They are said to have stolen cash and objects worth around 850,000 euros from older people in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, the police said on Tuesday.
Crime scenes were in the Bad Kreuznach area, in Mainz, in the Ludwigshafen area, in Rüsselsheim and Hattersheim am Main in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse.
The two men are said to be part of a group that is responsible for at least eleven acts in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and that operates internationally.
Here the total damage should be over one million euros.
At the beginning of December, a 24-year-old from the Bad Kreuznach district was arrested.
According to the police, he can be proven to have participated in at least ten acts with a total damage of around 850,000 euros.
He worked as a so-called collector, so he received the valuables from the victims after they had been persuaded to hand them over by an accomplice.
According to the police, parts of the loot were found when his home was searched.
A 36-year-old was arrested in Berlin in mid-December.
He is said to have been responsible for the transfer of the loot to Turkey and in at least two cases took over cash and objects worth more than 300,000 euros from the 24-year-old collector.
The Bad Kreuznach public prosecutor's office applied for an arrest warrant against him and he is now in custody.
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