See Where Police Recovered 60 Million Naira Missing From A Bullion Van

Rivers sate police command officers have on Monday, said they have recovered N60.25m in an abandoned taxi, two days after it was declared missing from a bullion van.

According to the police, the money which belongs to an undisclosed bank was recovered following a tip-off.

A bullion van, which was conveying over N100m cash, was declared missing on Friday, July 8, 2016, after the van came into Port Harcourt from Aba in Abia State, to deliver the said cash.

 The River state police had launched an investigation into how the money disappeared and two days later found N60.25m out of the money in an abandoned taxi car.

The state Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Administration, Mr. Uche Anozia, said that the bullion van was rented to convey money from Aba to Port Harcourt. He said the van went missing when security escorts attached to it disembarked after it had delivered part of the cash to  Zenith Bank.

He said the driver of the bullion van drove off to an unknown destination after the security escorts allowed him to go and deliver the N100m to the other bank.

“On the 8th of July, last Friday, we received a report by one Mr. Stanley Ndubuisi of Bankers Warehouse, a company located at 36, Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port Harcourt.

The company engages in bullion van services. These bullion vans are rented by banks to convey their cash to and fro. So, on this day, a bullion van was rented from this company by Zenith Bank and Stanbic IBTC Bank, here in Port Harcourt.

The bullion van was to go to Aba to the branches of these particular banks to convey cash to Port Harcourt on behalf of these banks. The bullion van was manned by a driver, who drove the vehicle to Aba.

When it (bullion van) arrived Port Harcourt, it went to Zenith Bank and delivered part of the money owned by the bank to it. According to the complainant, at that point the soldiers disembarked and left.

Now, it remained the money for Stanbic ibtc Bank and the driver alone. Consequently, the driver absconded with the money.”

He added that he received useful intelligence on July 11 that a certain Ford Explorer was found parked on the premises of a supermarket, Everyday Supermarket, located in GRA.

The DC said no arrest had been made but stated that investigation was still ongoing with the aim of arresting everyone involved in the act.