Bank staff, 2 accomplices nabbed

 A BANK employee and two others were locked up at the Gordon Police Station cells yesterday for allegedly stealing K50,000 from the bank’s Boroko branch in Port Moresby, police said.

It was the seventh time they had made away with cash, police said.

Police claimed the two suspects colluding with the bank employee in the crime were nabbed red-handed trying to make their way from the bank with the cash.

Police apprehended the two, who revealed the name of the employee who had allegedly just given them K50,000 in an envelope.

Gordon station commander Insp Mark Mosinakave said police acted on a tip-off from the commercial bank and caught the two suspects at about 10.30am.

“This is not the first time they have done this. They have done it on several occasions since November and this is the seventh time they did it,” Mosinakave said.

He said one of the suspects was leaving with the K50,000 in an envelope, passed to him by the bank employee, when he was apprehended by officers outside the bank. 

Police took him into the bank and questioned him and he revealed the identity of the bank employee and the driver who was waiting for him outside. Mosinakave believed the bank had noticed this but wanted to catch all the conspirators off guard.

Police believe a substantial amount of money was stolen since last year. The suspects are in police custody at Gordon, waiting for appropriate charges to be laid.

Mosinakave commended the effort of the bank in working with police.

The money was returned to the bank to be kept as court exhibits.