Five persons were sentenced together to 87 years in jail for large-scale thefts.

The Prosecutor General’s Office said that in January-February this year, the thieves robbed two currency exchange facilities and a pawn shop in Chisinau. The damage caused to the victims totaled over 1.5 million lei.

The five acted at night and broke the door. They managed to leave the crime scene together with the safes during at most 40 seconds.

They were detained on February 10, immediately after they committed the third theft. They were held on remand until now.

The convicts are aged between 27 and 35 and are from Comrat and Ceadar-Lunga districts.

The sentence can be appealed to a higher court.