Two cleaners, whose workplace was just metres from the “Wan Chai Mad Dash for Cash” site, have been arrested and released by police, bringing the total kinda collared for the mass opportunist theft to five.
Officers identified the two from CCTV footage of the incident, which saw a G4S security van spew more than HKD52.5 million onto Gloucester Road on Christmas Eve from a side door that was inexplicably left open.
The women, aged 60 and 68, were apprehended at work in the Allied Kajima Building on Gloucester Road.
According to a police source of the SCMP, the two women grabbed thousands of dollars each, with one allegedly using some of the money to buy a mobile phone.
After being arrested at noon yesterday, however, the pair was released on bail before midnight and simply asked to report back to the station in a month’s time. The woman did have her phone confiscated though, so don’t think they got away totally scot free!
Meanwhile, more than HKD500,000 was handed in to police yesterday, leaving at little over HKD7 million of the HKD15.2 million that was lost still missing.
Come on, that’s almost half. What do they really expect?
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