€8.2m theft: Suspect returns to Germany to turn herself in

By : NAN

Date: 20 March 2024 12:36pm WAT

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Andreas Ziegel (2nd L), presiding judge at the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany, sits in front of defendants prior to a hearing on May 16, 2023 in the trial over a jewellery heist on the Green Vault (Gruenes Gewoelbe) museum in Dresden’s Royal Palace in November 2019.

A suspect in the theft of about 8.2 million euros (8.9 million U.S. dollars) in cash from a money transport company has returned herself to German police from Turkey.
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The suspect, a 31-year-old woman, was taken into police custody at the Bremen Airport on Tuesday night, police announced on Wednesday.

The woman was allegedly responsible for packing cash as an employee of a money transport company in the northern German city of Bremen.
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According to the police, on May 21, 2021, she stole several bags filled with cash and called in sick.

The missing money was only discovered a few days later.

By that time, the woman had fled and escaped abroad.
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