Armed robbers get away with hundreds of millions
Armed robbers get away with hundreds of millions
BOGOR (JP): Bogor Police are on the hunt for four men in
connection with the armed robbery of hundreds of millions of
rupiah from the Gede Agung Bagus (GAB) Money Changer on Jl.
Siliwangi on Friday evening.
The money changer's cashier and one of its security guards
sustained gunshot wounds during the incident.
The robbers fled with a large bag containing rupiah banknotes
and foreign currency, after shooting the cashier's right hand.
The same bullet which pierced the hand of the cashier,
identified as Luciana, 35, proceeded to wound the right thigh of
the security guard, identified as Achmad Khotib, 46, who was
positioned behind the cashier when the incident occurred.
Luciana's colleague, Shanti, said that the robbers appeared
very professional.
"They must have followed and watched us every time we cashiers
stored the cash at the head office of the money changer on Jl.
Siliwangi No. 70," Shanti, 27, told reporters at the PMI Bogor
general hospital, where the injured were being treated.
Shanti said that on Friday evening Achmad and Luciana had
taken a company vehicle, an Isuzu Panther driven by Panca, to
transport the cash from the money changer's agency on Jl. Surya
Kencana.
"The bag contained, among other currencies, rupiah banknotes
worth Rp 51 million (US$5,300), as well as thousands of
Australian, American and Singaporean dollars," Shanti said.
She said that when Achmad and Luciana reached the Siliwangi
office two men on an RX-King motorcycle approached them.
Suddenly, one of the men, who was thin, had a moustache and wore
a sports cap, fired a weapon.
"Suddenly I saw both Luciana and Achmad floored, crying in
pain and covered in blood. The bag was gone with the men," Shanti
said.
Panca added that there was also two other men on another
motorcycle parked at the side of the road. He said he could not
memorize the number plate of the green motorbike.
"The two men who attacked Ibu Luci sped towards Jl. Sukasari,"
the driver said.
Luciana said that although she was the company's cashier she
did know the amount of the money she had been transporting.
(21/ylt)