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| Sunday, 17 February 2002 |
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Theft of gold, jewellery from bank vault: Woman employee held with part of loot by JAYAMPATHY JAYASINGHE The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested a woman bank employee with a part of the loot including gold and other jewellery items worth over Rs. five million which mysteriously disappeared from a vault of a Colombo bank recently. The suspect woman was produced before court and remanded pending investigations, police sources told The Sunday Observer. The suspect, a middle aged employee of the same bank, was arrested at her residence in Ratmalana with a major portion of the loot, mostly gold and jewellery stolen from the bank's vault. Police said that part of the jewellery was recovered from her residence and jewellery shops in Colombo where the suspect had allegedly sold them and obtained about Rs. 1.2, million which she had placed in a fixed deposit in an another bank. The stolen gold and jewellery belonged to a woman customer who had kept them in safe custody of the bank's vault before she had left abroad. However, on her return, when she had gone to claim her jewellery, she had found a portion of them worth more than Rs. five million, missing from the bank. She had later lodged a complaint at the Wellawatte police station. Police said that the suspect employee had met the woman customer when she called over at the bank at Wellawatte and had pointed to her the vault where her gold and other jewellery had been kept. Police said that the suspect had later with a duplicate vault key removed a portion of the jewellery. The CID is trying to ascertain whether some other bank employees are connected with the alleged theft. Deputy Inspector General of Police (CID) C.L. Ratnayake and Director Lionel Gunatilleka are directing the investigations. |
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