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Motorcycle swiped from Italy in 2012 turns up in St. Petersburg

Italian police had been looking for this motorcycle since 2012

MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. Police in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, have found a motorcycle stolen from Italy five years ago, Interior Ministry’s Spokesman Irina Volk said on Friday.

The motorbike was seized from a St. Petersburg resident who claimed that he had purchased the bike online for 800,000 rubles (over $13,000) and got it delivered from the Volga city of Saratov.

"The probe revealed that Italian police had been looking for this motorcycle since 2012," Volk said.