Nine people have been arrested in India after a daring 70m rupees ($800,000; £600,000) heist in which armed men posing as central bank officials robbed an ATM cash van.
On Monday, police in the southern city of Bengaluru said they had arrested two more people, in addition to seven earlier, and recovered 68.5m rupees of the money stolen last week.
“We cannot say how many more will be arrested as we are continuing to investigate the case,” Lokesh Jagalasar, Deputy Commissioner of police for Bengaluru South. Said.
The thieves pretended to be officers of the Reserve Bank of India. They stopped the transport vehicle saying they had to check the paperwork for such a large amount of money.
The vehicle’s cash custodian and two security guards were instructed to get into an SUV, while one of the gang members took control of the van, police said.
Police said the gang had changed vehicles, used fake registration plates and selected locations with minimal CCTV coverage to transfer the boxes of cash.
BBC
