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Jul 01, 2014 News
– Cops recover $2M after culprit cracks under pressure
A driver/salesman who told police a fantastic tale of being attacked by gunmen near Cemetery Road yesterday and robbed of $9M has admitted to faking the robbery and making off with his employer’s cash.
Police said that the salesman cracked under intensive interrogation shortly after the ‘heist’ and led detectives to an area where he had stashed $2M of the stolen cash.
Up to late yesterday evening, police were still grilling the suspect in an effort to recover the rest of the money.
The salesman is an employee of Associated Industries Limited (AINLIM), which is located in Ruimveldt and is a subsidiary of Neal & Massy Guyana Ltd.
Kaieteur News understands that the AINLIM employee had collected $9M from the parent company, Neil and Massay Ltd. earlier in the day. He told police that he was driving back to his workplace at around 14.00 hrs when two gunmen on motorcycles intercepted him. The ‘gunmen’, he said, relieved him of his employer’s $9M before racing away on their motorcycles.
But police, who have investigated several such ‘robberies’, were immediately suspicious of the salesman’s story. They took the ‘victim’ to the Ruimveldt Police Station where, under interrogation, he eventually confessed that he had stolen the money.
Kaieteur News was told that the salesman then led investigators to a Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara location where they recovered $2M.
Police were said to be checking another location on the West Coast of Demerara for the remainder of the money.
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