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Sima Yi
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German tank theft pair on the run
A Bulgarian military court has sentenced two German citizens for stealing a World War II-era German tank, but the pair have disappeared – with the tank.
Published: 4:41PM BST 06 Oct 2010
The court on Wednesday sentenced one of the German citizens and the Bulgarian officer to four years in prison. Military prosecutor Hristo Tinev said the second German citizen was given a three-year suspended sentence with a five-year probation period. The defendants were found guilty of smuggling a MK IV Panzer tank out of Bulgaria. They were arrested in 2007 while trying to steal a second Panzer tank. The two Germans were tried in absentia because they left Bulgaria following their release on bail. Authorities do not know where the tank or the Germans are.
