Soldier arrested in Finance Bank robbery
A Zambia Army soldier from Luena Barracks in Western Province has been picked up in connection with the theft of K1 billion from Finance Bank in which two employees of the bank were killed.
According to Times of Zambia, Police have recovered more than K280 million from the suspect.
The suspect, a staff sergeant, allegedly staged the robbery with other unknown robbers when the Finance Bank employees were delivering the cash under police escort. The robbery left two police officers and a civilian injured.
According to reliable police sources, the soldier, who is suspected to be the mastermind of the robbery was arrested after police intensified their search and conducted check-points.
The source said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday the suspect was found within the barracks while the money was found hidden in his house.
“The suspect did not resist or waste the officers’ time. After he was followed in the barracks by a group of police officers, he simply cooperated,” the source said.
In July this year, bandits killed two Finance Bank employees and got away with K1 billion which was being transported from Mongu to Finance Bank Kaoma branch.
The robbers ambushed the vehicle carrying the money, some 20 kilometres before reaching Kaoma district in Namasheshe area.
The third Finance Bank employee and the two police officers who accompanied the crew were wounded during the incident.
After the shooting incident, Finance Bank provided resources to the police to expeditiously probe the murders and robbery.
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According to witness who survived this fateful robbery, the car was travelling at 160km/hr and it required a trained sniper to shoot the driver right up on the forehead at that speed. Discussing that further, the seen of that fateful robbery was a few km away from Luena Baracks and a potential supplier of such skillful shooting.
This sends alot of masseges to our leadership and commanders whereby trained soldiers are now involved in act of robbery. There must be something wrong with our barracks army in general. Apart from sending the soldiers involved to jail, more must be done to stop the scourge by engaging soldiers to why they involve themselves to such act. This is not the only robbery soldiers are involved in.
Somebody from the Bank is involved as well
Rubbish. Nothing is working in this miserable country. If it’s not killing for nshima, it’s for some other ting all as a result of poverty.
The Central Bank (Bank of Zambia) should regulate Cash In Transit security. At the moment individual commercial banks employ their whims on modalities of movement of cash. Most banks are plain stingy and don’t care about the safety of their staff, as long as business is going on. This was a sad incident indeed.
I agree with the x-killer the fool is very dull
Hang the fool!