Professor robbed of Sh950,000 after bank visit
Detectives are investigating an incident where a professor lost Sh950,000 to suspected thieves in the Runda, Nairobi.
Detectives are investigating an incident where a professor lost Sh950,000 to suspected thieves in the Runda, Nairobi.
The incident is said to have happened moments after he left the bank.
The professor who is a former chancellor of a public university told police he had been to Warwick Center in Gigiri on February 4 at 2 pm and withdrew the cash for use to pay works at a construction site in Runda.
He told police he was in the company of a manager at the site and they drove from the bank to the site and parked his car about 15m away.
The professor did not know the thieves were trailing him. He said he had packed the cash in a bag and left the same in the car.
After walking to inspect the site, he heard a bang and on checking he realised his car had been broken into and the gang, which had trailed him using a car, had vanished.
The gang is believed to have been at the banking hall or had prior information on the cash transactions, police said.
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The professor later confronted the bank officials demanding an explanation of how the incident happened.
He protested the incident saying he suspected the thieves knew the transactions from the bank.
Police were called to the scene and announced investigations were ongoing.
The police and the bank officials are reviewing security footage to identify the possible thieves.
The incident has stalled the construction exercise at the home of the professor, for now.
This is the latest such incident to happen where people are attacked and robbed of cash after leaving banks. Police link the trend to among others, insiders and gangs who hangout in banks monitoring transactions.
Some of the thieves stay in banking halls posing as customers before trailing those who withdraw the cash and rob them. Others have prior information on the transactions while some are tipped off.
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