The News - Monday, December 14, 2009
KARACHI: In the biggest bank robbery in Pakistan’s history, foreign currency worth Rs 301 million was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office on II Chundrigar Road here on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected as being over Rs 500 million.
According to preliminary investigations, the bank’s private security guard, Shahid, and his four associates are said to be involved in the heist. The guard belongs to the Security Protection System (SPS) company, whose licence has been cancelled.
The investigators are also looking into Shahid’s links to militant organisations. He hails from Faisalabad. The Sindh government has announced a reward of Rs 2 million for providing information about the guard and his accomplices. Besides, the police have detained two other guards of the bank, Imran and Zameer, for interrogation.
DIG South Zone Ghulam Nabi Memon told this scribe that the bank management had registered an FIR with the Mithadar police station. He said that they had recovered Rs 5.3 million of the looted money from the house of a dismissed ASI, Muhammad Imran. However, intelligence sources told The News that the said ASI had handed over a bag, carrying 45,000 Euros, to the police. According to the dismissed policeman, security guard Shahid used to play cricket with him and on Sunday morning, gave him a bag, saying that he would take it back after the cricket match. Muhammad Imran was also detained for questioning.
On Sunday morning, the sources said, the night shift guard, Amal Noor Khan, handed over the charge to Shahid, who asked the watchman to allow his friends, who were coming in a private car, to enter the bank. The four so-called friends entered the bank premises in the guise of security guards. They waited for two other guards, Imran and Zameer, who were yet to arrive. When Imran and Zameer reached the bank, Shahid and his associates made them hostage and tied them with ropes. After cutting the alarm wire and deactivating the security cameras, they broke the bank locker with a gas cutter and looted Rs 310 million. They fled the bank at around 10:30-11:00 am, according to the sources.
As it was a holiday, no one came to know about the robbery until the two guards, who were tied up inside the bank, managed to free themselves and reported the robbery to the Mithadar police station at around 1:00 pm.
source - The News
KARACHI: In the biggest bank robbery in Pakistan’s history, foreign currency worth Rs 301 million was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office on II Chundrigar Road here on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected as being over Rs 500 million.
According to preliminary investigations, the bank’s private security guard, Shahid, and his four associates are said to be involved in the heist. The guard belongs to the Security Protection System (SPS) company, whose licence has been cancelled.
The investigators are also looking into Shahid’s links to militant organisations. He hails from Faisalabad. The Sindh government has announced a reward of Rs 2 million for providing information about the guard and his accomplices. Besides, the police have detained two other guards of the bank, Imran and Zameer, for interrogation.
DIG South Zone Ghulam Nabi Memon told this scribe that the bank management had registered an FIR with the Mithadar police station. He said that they had recovered Rs 5.3 million of the looted money from the house of a dismissed ASI, Muhammad Imran. However, intelligence sources told The News that the said ASI had handed over a bag, carrying 45,000 Euros, to the police. According to the dismissed policeman, security guard Shahid used to play cricket with him and on Sunday morning, gave him a bag, saying that he would take it back after the cricket match. Muhammad Imran was also detained for questioning.
On Sunday morning, the sources said, the night shift guard, Amal Noor Khan, handed over the charge to Shahid, who asked the watchman to allow his friends, who were coming in a private car, to enter the bank. The four so-called friends entered the bank premises in the guise of security guards. They waited for two other guards, Imran and Zameer, who were yet to arrive. When Imran and Zameer reached the bank, Shahid and his associates made them hostage and tied them with ropes. After cutting the alarm wire and deactivating the security cameras, they broke the bank locker with a gas cutter and looted Rs 310 million. They fled the bank at around 10:30-11:00 am, according to the sources.
As it was a holiday, no one came to know about the robbery until the two guards, who were tied up inside the bank, managed to free themselves and reported the robbery to the Mithadar police station at around 1:00 pm.
source - The News
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