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- 31 july 2025, 00:58
- The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the competent authorities of Colombia are extraditing Fredy Andrés Patiño Ávila to face criminal charges under paragraphs "a" and "b" of Part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft committed by an organized group on an especially large scale).
According to investigators, Colombian native Patiño, acting as part of an international organized crime group, arrived in February 2012 at a jewelry exhibition in St. Petersburg.
At the Lenexpo exhibition complex, he and his accomplices selected suitable potential robbery victims from among visitors and employees of companies whose movements they subsequently tracked. The participants disoriented the victims at the airport and train station, and secretly stole their luggage, which contained jewelry worth more than 30 million rubles.
After committing the crimes, Patiño went into hiding, while the remaining accomplices were detained in the Russian Federation while attempting to export the stolen jewelry to the Republic of Colombia.
In January 2014, the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg imposed on Patiño a preventive measure in the form of detention in absentia; and he was placed on the international wanted list.
After Patiño's whereabouts were established on the territory of Colombia, in cooperation with employees of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Colombia, measures were taken aimed at arresting the accused.
In May 2025, the Russian side sent a request to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Colombia, upon which it was possible to obtain a positive decision on his extradition.
Accompanied by officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and the National Central Bureau of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Patiño will be taken in transit through Turkey to Moscow.
The Prosecutor General's Office
of the Russian Federation
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
31 july 2025, 00:58
At the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, Colombia is extraditing an international criminal group member charged with stealing exhibition jewelry
At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the competent authorities of Colombia are extraditing Fredy Andrés Patiño Ávila to face criminal charges under paragraphs "a" and "b" of Part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft committed by an organized group on an especially large scale).
According to investigators, Colombian native Patiño, acting as part of an international organized crime group, arrived in February 2012 at a jewelry exhibition in St. Petersburg.
At the Lenexpo exhibition complex, he and his accomplices selected suitable potential robbery victims from among visitors and employees of companies whose movements they subsequently tracked. The participants disoriented the victims at the airport and train station, and secretly stole their luggage, which contained jewelry worth more than 30 million rubles.
After committing the crimes, Patiño went into hiding, while the remaining accomplices were detained in the Russian Federation while attempting to export the stolen jewelry to the Republic of Colombia.
In January 2014, the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg imposed on Patiño a preventive measure in the form of detention in absentia; and he was placed on the international wanted list.
After Patiño's whereabouts were established on the territory of Colombia, in cooperation with employees of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Colombia, measures were taken aimed at arresting the accused.
In May 2025, the Russian side sent a request to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Colombia, upon which it was possible to obtain a positive decision on his extradition.
Accompanied by officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and the National Central Bureau of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Patiño will be taken in transit through Turkey to Moscow.