Police on the East Coast are searching for two men who escaped with $1 million belonging to a Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice businessman just after 1.30 pm on Thursday.
Altabh Khan, 34, told Stabroek News that the money along with a cheque book and other business documents were in a backpack in a Canter truck, GPP 1888, that he had left parked along the Montrose Public Road.
He left home that morning to purchase stocks for his shop but “did not get through” and was returning home when he stopped at Montrose to have lunch at a restaurant.
Twenty-five minutes later when he returned to the vehicle he noticed that the locks were open and immediately became worried. When he checked inside he noticed that the bag was missing and started to panic.
He went back into the restaurant to get a number for the Sparendaam Police Station and contacted the officer who arrived promptly and conducted investigations.
They also dusted for fingerprints but Khan said they have not called him to say if they “found any match.” He was grateful for the co-operation and prompt response from the police.
According to him he was seated outside the restaurant, which has an adjoining Avon shop, while eating and recalled seeing a man standing by the door. He gathered now that that must have been the “lookout man.”
After a few minutes the man made a call from his cell phone and said to the other person, “hello, you ready?” The man then ran out of the shop and got into a grey car which sped off.
He suspected that the men must have followed him from Georgetown and felt that if he had not stopped there they could have robbed him at some other point along his journey.
