Yeah I wonder about this as well. It was decades ago that a friends Mercedes was stolen in Poland and the police just immediately concluded that it had been taken to Russia. I'm thinking "well yeah, if you just decide all stolen vehicles go to Russia then they in fact are never found".
He never got the car back, don’t know if it was picked apart or they managed to send it abroad. The security footage from the garage caught it on video so that’s how they knew that they went through the headlights.