The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash. It later transpires that the money is just a smokescreen for a top-secret document that the gang's leader - actually a KGB officer - is trying to smuggle out of the country.
While criminals try to hide their stash from law enforcement, it turns out the money is merely a cover for a highly classified document being smuggled out of the country by the gang's leader, who is secretly a KGB agent.