A Mahaicony businesswoman sustained injuries after three armed bandits pounced on her just around midday on Friday and brutalised her before stealing millions of dollars in cash and jewellery.
Dhanmattie Mahadeo also known as ‘Sherry’, 32, the co-owner of Sherry’s Agri Centre, said she was in her office, located at the bottom flat of her home, when a heavily tinted vehicle stopped in front of her premises. Two men exited the vehicle with face masks while the driver remained in the vehicle.
According to Mahadeo, her staffer was in the washroom at the time and so she decided to assist the men, who initially asked whether she had chicken feed for sale. After she informed them that she did not sell feed, they then requested two packs of fertilizer.
As she packed the first pack of fertiliser, she said, the men jumped over the counter. “One of them lash me on the head with the gun and they duct tape up my hand behind my back, my neck, and they ask me where the money and gold?” the woman recounted.
According to Mahadeo, the perpetrators then took her into the house and tied her feet with a bedsheet and demanded she hand over the valuables. The men removed all the gold jewellery she was wearing and as well as the other gold items she had in the house.
A total of $4.2 million in cash and cheques along with over $2 million in jewellery and several cell phones were stolen.
Furthermore, the woman said the men hit her in the head several times throughout the ordeal.
Mahadeo said that the men also tied up her female worker and dragged her by the hair inside the house before they escaped. They also stole the worker’s cellphone.
Eventually, Mahadeo was able to free herself and ran over to her mother’s house and alerted her about the robbery.
Meanwhile, the businesswoman yesterday pointed out that about one hour before the robbery a man had visited her and claimed that he was a researcher with an agriculture agency in Burma requesting to enter her business place.
After checking some of her products and texting on his phone, he then left, she noted.
Following the robbery, Mahadeo made contact with one of the agriculture agencies and was told that no one was sent to her business on that day.
The police are conducting an investigation. Up to press time, no arrest had been made.
