Police in Luanshya have recovered K51, 414 and a Toyota corolla motor vehicle among other things used in the armed robbery involving K541, 736 belonging to Antelope Milling Company Limited.The robbery took place outside Standard Charted Bank Luanshya branch on Monday afternoon.
Masked bandits opened fire at an Antelope Milling Company vehicle, a Nissan minibus registration number ACH 2490 which was carrying money from antelope milling for banking. Four unknown armed men opened fire to which a lone female police officer reiterated ensuing in an exchange of fire. On board the milling company vehicle registration number ACG 2490 which was transiting the money was a female Police officer, a driver, a cashier and the security guard.The security guard was shot in the knee during the exchange of fire.The robbery happened outside Standard Chartered Bank premises around 12:00 hours, causing panic among members of the public who scampered for safety.
The bandits went away with more than K540, 000 cash and cheques valued at K542, 254 in a broad daylight attack.
Police spokesperson Charity Chanda suspected that the milling company vehicle was being trailed by four bandits who used an unregistered Toyota Corolla, silver in colour.
“The four criminals were wearing masks. It is believed that they were trailing the vehicle that had employees of the company going to deposit money at Standard Chartered Bank in Luanshya.
She said the bandits sped away after getting the money, totaling K541, 736 cash and cheques valued at K542, 254.
She said the company personnel were ambushed as they were about to enter the bank to deposit the money.
Copperbelt Police Commanding Officer, Joyce Kasosa said the motor vehicle was recovered around 16:30 hours at Bottoms Up night club in Luanshya’s mine recreation area.
Ms Kasosa said that the Toyota corolla, registration number ACM 5827, silver in colour, whose owner was not yet known was discovered abandoned at Bottoms Up containing an empty black trunk, K51, 414 in cheque form, two head sock masks, two shirts, a coat, a school bag and a pair of sun glasses.
She further disclosed that police have also recovered four cartridges of a pistol from the scene of crime, believed to have come from one of the guns used during the robbery.
She, however, added that investigation were ongoing, to ascertain how a vehicle with a same description without a registration number which was reported to have been used in the robbery was later discovered with a registration number.
AMENSO PAMO Ba mwine!
Am sure the recovered all the money but they did the same as liatos money! Ba bwana ba bumuna umuchanga wakwiba))
Terrible reporting by this journalist
Thanks
Well what do you expect from thugs Sata released from jail in huge numbers and sent to Sudan for training to be his militia?. They have turned hardcore criminals who rob with impunity knowing very well that the law can not touch them for being PF militia cadres.
They were released from jail and promised good jobs and more money in their pockets. Now that they are realising that it was all BUFI they have devised other means to earn a living. With a high cost of living and low police wages, these PF militia thugs are touchable because they easily buy police protection via bribing the police and get PF s protection by assaulting the opposition party members.
Zambia is in serious trouble under Sata and his thugs. Recently 30 of them stole an earth moving machine while police watched.
Please talk to Steve Chungu
Increased Crime!
Anti-Second Term Campaign starts now!
Save mother Zambia!
Police officers who are deployed at banks do literally nothing except eating groundnuts bought using money which they berg from bank customers as if that’s what they employed for.
Police spokesperson Charity Chanda suspected that the milling company vehicle was being trailed by four bandits who used an unregistered Toyota Corolla, silver in colour
Ms Kasosa said that the Toyota corolla, registration number ACM 5827, silver in colour, whose owner was not yet known was discovered abandoned at Bottoms Up
Which is which?
Tayali was asking on what basis the American ambassador issued an alert on increasing crime in Zambia. Well, here is the answer for you.
Was the recovered cash honestly accounted for to the last ngwee?
Zambian policemen are always hungry and desperate for money and there is no way they could declare all the money. This must be investigated thoroughly.
Read between the lines st!pid. thats a cheque not cash
lol you are foolish
WTF? If the K51,414 was in the form of a cheque then there has been no money recovered!! The cheques are all useless, it’s the cash which is important so the Editor should not have allowed such a misleading headline!
Cheques are money. They are just a different type of money. They are legal tender! In civilised countries, you can walk into a supermarket and use a cheque to pay your bill at the till.
The cheques were obviously issued I favour of antelope. So they could simply not be used by any third party other than antelope. And all that should be done is tell the issuers to issue stop order payments to have blocked, rather than celebrating their recovery. That to me means nothing, unless you catch someone trying to deposit them, then you would have a news worth item.
Inside job
What a lie of reports the first part of the report says unregistered Corolla silver in colour when they discovered it had reg number..ACM 5728 and same colour at what point was this car registered? or did the badints have two corollas of same colour? its not possible for ZP to declare every money recovered i wish the thieves can come out and challenge the police and say we left more than that
Mangani the entire AMC company This is negligence of duty and inside job pamwamba.
You transport all that money in a silly van . Dr Jere here are customers for you mbuya
I have always been concerned about this…it is the same thing with the Banks putting money in ATMs…there is really no security at all.
The next attack will be on that bank of Zambia truck. Why can’t BOZ use helicopters to take money to other parts of the country? That track with its two landcruisers (one in front-one behind) will be ambushed one of these days and a lot of money will be driven into Congo or Mozambique.
The times have changed there is a need to have proper armed security when transporting so much cash around.
….This is really an interesting story….to start with it happened on Monday which was a holiday I presume. Special arrangement could have been arranged. The lady Cop fired back….fired back at what….? Just firing in the air or aimlessly..??…did the cop abandon the vehicle carrying the loot or did she abandon the fire arm and sort refuge…??…Being a holiday, Bottoms Up could have been clogged with patrons obviously one or two people saw these guys. They must have abandoned the corolla and immediately jumped into another car which was parked at Bottoms Up. The police must have known the owner of the corolla used by news time…
Which monday is tuesday, are you in this country or in other species?
CORRECTION :I meant to ask whether the repoter is in this country or in other species.
….thanks for the correction. The above reports say it happened on Monday. So was it Monday or Tuesday..?? All the same the story lacks obvious details…
@PRESSURE IWE CHITAKO ZANSHABA UKALIBE KUNGENA MUKATI.
Some parts of Zambia is still in the medieval times? Would be interesting to do a documentary I think…… getting ideas right now!
The bandits left head sock masks and tshirts, that’s any easy source of DNA. If were out here in the west, that would be a home run for the police and the bandits would easily be arrested. Sad thing is that our stone age Zambian police system do not have a DNA database for use in their investigations
If u find head sock & t shirt its very easy to catch the bandits using DNA & finger prints,but I assume police don’t have the technology we re in stone age
They will send then to SA at which point the thieves will use their network to bribe the cops so that the evidence can be lost. That is Zed for you. By the way, I am harassed when I come visiting with my foreign number and yet I see Zambians all over the place with their unregistered vehicles, some driving for weeks just like that. Why are we surprised when crime like this happens?
….also the Govt has to take a share of blame. Its high time they put in proper regulations for transfer of hard cash from one point to the other.
Like…..
….any transfer of K100,000 and above has to transferred by a professional registered security company using an armoured vehicle…such as Securicor… or G4 security
…..any amount between K50,000 and K 99, 999 to be transferred in the presence of two arm policemen etc
some thing like that. Cash limits above are given just as examples…..
Wanzelu lishilu and needs psychiatric treatment. His hallucinations are beaming serious.
“Four unknown armed men opened fire to which a lone female police officer reiterated ensuing in…” Reiterated or RETALIATED? The two words are different and do NOT mean the same thing. LT, this is kind of reporting is a source of worry. Whoever decided to take the money to the bank on a Public Holiday needs to be questioned.