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HSBC heist: Police arrest eight suspects including engineer by JAYAMPATHY JAYASINGHE Police have arrested eight suspects including an engineer from the Katubedde campus in connection with the HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation heist in Talangama, where Rs. 5.6 million was robbed by three armed persons in January. According to police source an automatic 9.mm. pistol with five rounds of ammunition, a repeater shot gun with 10 cartridges, a T-56 automatic weapon with 137 rounds of ammunition, a Rambo knife used in the robbery and four vehicles purchased with the looted money had also been recovered. The vehicles include 3, three wheelers and a van worth more than Rs. 1.2 million. Police said they were investigating whether the T-56 automatic weapon used in the robbery had belonged to a politician from the south. A special team of police officers led by Sub Inspector Jayasiri Amarasinghe were able to recover Rs. 2 lakhs hidden near a well in a house at Sandalankawa. The gang after robbing the money from the HSBC had later shared the spoils among themselves at a Chinese restaurant. The automatic 9 mm weapon had also been used in a shooting incident where several persons at Boralesgamuwa were injured, police said. Meanwhile the police are combing several areas to arrest another member of the gang wanted in connection with the robbery. He is said to be evading arrest. The three persons who staged the robbery were identified from the closed circuit Television, police said. The incident took place on the particular day in January around 11 am. when four persons armed with weapons stormed the HSBC after threatening to kill the security officers. Thereafter they got a cashier of the bank to open the iron safe and bundled the cash into a polythene bag. Supdt. of Police (Crimes) Nugegoda Cecil Perera directed the investigation. |
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