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301 million rupees worth foreign currency looted in Pakistan's biggest robbery | In what is being billed at Pakistan's biggest bank robbery, foreign currency worth 301 million rupees were looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)'s head office
in Karachi on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected to be over
500 million rupees. According to preliminary investigations, the bank's private
security guard and his four associates executed the heist, The News reports. The
investigators are looking at the possibility of Shahid's (guard) links to militant
organisations. The Sindh government has announced a reward of 2 million rupees
for providing information about the guard and his accomplices. The police have
detained two other guards of the bank for interrogation. While sources disclosed
that 5.3 million rupees of the looted money were recovered from the house of a
dismissed ASI, Muhammad Imran, intelligence officials said that Imran himself
had handed over a bag, carrying 45,000 Euros, to the police. According to Imran,
security guard Shahid used to play cricket with him. And on Sunday morning, he
gave him a bag, saying that he would take it back after the cricket match. Sources
said that Shahid asked a watchman at the bank 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 310 million rupees. Then they fled the bank. |
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