The police say they are investigating a report of armed robbery committed on GTT’s outlet at the Giftland Mall where $13,420,487 in currency and $6,015,524 in a cheque were taken.
The robbery occurred at 9.45 pm.
The police say the two perpetrators carried guns and were dressed in the uniform of the security service that usually attends to the outlet.
According to a 27-year-old employee (supervisor) of GTT two security officers from the private security firm would normally uplift cash at nights on completion of their tour of duty.
Yesterday, the employee said that herself along with five other staff members were on duty at the GTT booth when the two suspects wearing face masks fully dressed in the said security uniforms, approached her and checked the bags with the cash as per normal.
One of the suspects then went outside to the other staff members and brandished a hand gun at them. They were instructed to ‘get on the floor’ with which they complied. The other suspect who was in the supervisor’s room took out a hand gun from his pants waist and told supervisor to go on the floor, which she did.
The suspects placed duct tape on the hands and mouths of the GTT staffers and locked them in the booth. The perpetrators then took the said cash mentioned, exited through a back door, made their way into the Giftland parking lot and entered a white old model Raum (number unknown) and escaped heading east on the Railway Embankment.
