A gang of three masked individuals have stolen or attempted to steal pay terminals at four locations in different parts of Finland over the past week.
Police say they are still working to identify the three suspects.
The first theft took place on Wednesday morning at a petrol station in Tervakoski near the municipality of Janakkala in southern Finland. Häme police said that a vehicle previously stolen from the Parola area of Hattula was used in the robbery.
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The car is a 2013 brown Kia Ceed station wagon with a white ski box on the roof, as seen in the above image from surveillance footage captured at the scene.
The gang made their getaway after obtaining a small sum of money.
Gang moves east
The following evening, Thursday, police believe the gang struck again in southeast Finland, hitting petrol stations in Virolahti, Miehikkälä and Luumäki.
In both Miehikkälä and Luumäki, the gang's attempts to steal from the machines were unsuccessful. They were interrupted in Miehikkälä and quickly fled the scene, but police are unsure why the Luumäki attempt failed.
"The machine was broken, but for one reason or another it was not taken," Chief Inspector Jarmo Rahkola from the Southeast Finland Police Department said.
The department confirmed on Friday that the gang had successfully stolen a machine from an ABC filling station in Virolahti, Kymenlaakso. The machine has not yet been recovered and the amount of cash that was in the terminal at the time of the robbery is not currently known.
Footage of the gang was captured by surveillance cameras in the Kymenlaakso region as well, and police believe the machine was removed from the Virolahti station by a black car the gang was using.
Police believe the four cases are related
According to Chief Inspector Rahkola, police believe the same gang was involved in all four robberies or attempted robberies, but the identity of the perpetrators is not currently known to the police.
The incidents in Virolahti, Miehikkälä and Luumäki are being investigated by the Southeast Finland Police Department as one suspected case of aggravated theft and two suspected cases of attempted aggravated theft.
The police have asked anyone with any information about the thefts to contact the Southeast Finland Police Department via email rikostorjunta.kymenlaakso@poliisi.fi or by phone to 0295 414 500.
Information related to the Janakkala case can be reported to the Häme Police hotline on 0295 414 222 or by email vihjeet.hame@poliisi.fi.