Police says RD$36 million bank heist robber left the country
The director general of the Police, Major General Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, says that one of the lead suspects in the robbery of RD$36 million to a G4S security company cash truck, Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez (Elién) traveled abroad on the day after the robbery that took place at the Curva de Billeya on the Baní-Azua highway. Bautista made the announcement when making public that another suspect, 25-year old Misael Vólquez Espinosa has turned himself in to the authorities in the presence of his mother, and Moneidy Gómez, of the local Human Rights Commission; Benny Rodríguez, secretary general of the Journalists Guild, among others.
Vólquez’s brother, the Barahona Jail inmate Darbinson Vólquez Espinosa, is suspect of having planned the crime from inside the jail using his mobile phone.
The Police has arrested several others in the case, but say they have only recovered RD$5.7 million of the RD$36 million stolen from the truck. Bautista suspects Pérez Sánchez knows the whereabouts of the missing cash.
The majority of cash from security truck heist still missing
Of the RD$36 million stolen from a G4S security truck, which appears to have been an inside job involving the G4S employees, the police have so far recovered RD$4,836,000 and 28,500 Euros.
Last weekend, another of the supposed robbers, 25 year old Misael Vólquez Espinosa, handed himself in to the public prosecution office in Barahona.
Those already arrested, which the police say are all of those thought to be involved, are 50 year old Rudy Alberto Serrano Féliz; Manuel Isaías Pérez Sánchez, 33, Nircido Féliz Fernández, 51, Darlin Vólquez Feliz (Wassa), 33, Israel García García and his nephew Ernesto García Reyes.
However, the whereabouts of the remainder of the money is unknown.
Source: DR1, Eldia, DiarioLibre
April 25, 2018
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