Strange Scheme of Twin Brothers for Billion-Dollar Thefts in Tehran

According to SAEDNEWS, citing Rokna, recently passersby in a street in Tehran noticed a fight between two young men who looked very similar. The twin brothers were physically fighting, and people intervened to end the conflict. However, when the fight intensified and they were unable to separate them, they called the police.

When officers arrived and the fight ended, one of the witnesses told a police officer: “I think the fight between these two people, who are apparently twin brothers, is because of the division of stolen money, because one of the brothers kept saying you should give me more money because you involved me in this situation; I was not a thief or a fraudster, and in short he was very angry with his brother.”

Following these statements, police officers at the precinct began investigating the two brothers, and during a search of their car they encountered stolen property. The two brothers were forced to confess to a series of thefts from villas and night workshops.

Exploiting Physical Similarity

During interrogation, the twin brothers admitted to the thefts and revealed their motive.

One of the brothers said: “My brother and I are twins and we have a very strong physical resemblance. We are both educated engineers and grew up in a good family. We were not looking for illegal work, but fate brought us here.”

So what made you commit theft?

“My brother made a mistake, or maybe he became greedy. He sold everything he had and gave it to a friend to buy cryptocurrency and invest abroad for him.”

But the friend, whom he trusted deeply, took the money and disappeared. The brother searched for his scammer partner for about a year and even traveled abroad several times, but it was useless, and he became bankrupt.

“When he asked me for help, since I was also not in a good financial situation, no solution other than theft came to my mind to compensate for his financial loss.”

What was your method?

“Villas and workshops outside the city were our targets. Usually on weekends both houses and workshops are empty, so we would go there and carry out our thefts.

One of us would go to the guard of the workshop or villa and distract him, while the other would secretly enter and put valuable items inside a hiking backpack and escape.”

Didn’t CCTV record you?

“Yes, but because of our strong resemblance, we used this opportunity. Since childhood, we sometimes confused friends and even teachers as a joke, and we also used this method in thefts.

When guards saw the CCTV footage of the thief, they became confused and said: this person was talking to us, so how is it possible that he was committing theft at the same time?”

Are you regretful?

“If my brother had not gone bankrupt and my financial situation had been good, we would never have entered this path. Life and circumstances forced us, but we really made a mistake.”