Airport heist: 'Inside job'
2006-03-27 09:34
Johannesburg - Police are investigating whether the foreign currency theft at Johannesburg International Airport was an inside job, a spokesperson said on Monday.
"We have no leads nor have arrests been made in this matter. I will go there again today in an attempt to figure out what happened," said Senior Superintendent Vish Naidoo.
"But now, part of our theory will be that this was an inside job," he said.
A gang of ten men stole several million dollars on Saturday when, armed with AK-47 assault rifles, they held up guards at a gate and police and guards at a South African Airways aircraft, and took bags of currency which had been flown in from Britain.
Naidoo said the police were still looking for the gang.
- SAPA