RIYADH: Saudi police on Tuesday revealed that they have arrested two of four suspects accused of an armed raid on a vehicle transporting money collected from a bank in Riyadh.
The robbery took place on Dec. 13 last year. Lt. Col. Shakir Al-Tuwaijri, a spokesman for Riyadh Police Department, said investigators had determined that the robbers tracked the vehicle after it picked up the cash from a branch of the National Commercial Bank on Ibn Taymiyyah Road in Al-Shifa district.
They shot at the security guards in the vehicle with a pistol before robbing them and escaping with SR 1.95 million ($520,000). Their getaway car that had been stolen on Dec. 2, 2019 and was fitted with license plates from a different stolen car.
“The security team formed to investigate the crime was able to circle in on four citizens,” said Al-Tuwaijri. “Two of them left the Kingdom after committing the crime but (officers were) able to arrest the gang leader and another member. Both perpetrators are in their thirties and had committed another burglary on Dec. 6, 2019 in Al-Badia neighborhood in Riyadh, during which they stole SR 250,000. The authorities are continuing their efforts to capture the other two perpetrators.”
