N60m from missing bullion van found in Port Harcourt supermarket premises

PORT HARCOURT—The presentation of N60 million, purportedly recouped by the Rivers State Police Command, after a bullion van passing on over N100 million disappeared on Friday, left numerous puzzled.
The order said the cash, having a place with one of the new era banks in the state, was recouped on Monday after it was relinquished at the premises of a well known store in a taxi auto inside GRA, Port Harcourt. The bullion van, which passed on the over N100 million to Rivers State from Aba in Abia State, was proclaimed missing on Friday, a week ago, and a formal objection was supposedly held up at Rivers State Police Command, prompting an examination.

Tending to pressmen yesterday in Port Harcourt, Deputy Police Commissioner responsible for Administration, Mr. Uche Anozia, clarified that the bullion van was contracted from an organization in the state to pass on cash for two new era banks in Port Harcourt from Aba. Anozia expressed that the bullion van was announced missing after security escorts going with the van landed when it had conveyed cash to one of the banks in light of the fact that they were just paid to escort for Zenith Bank.

He included that the driver of the bullion van drove off to a yet-to-be-known destination after the escorts permitted him to go and convey the N100 million to the next bank, Stanbic Bank. He said: "On July 8, last Friday, we got a report by one Mr. Stanley Ndubuisi of Bankers Warehouse, around a missing bullion van. It was leased by Zenith Bank and Stanbic Bank, here in Port Harcourt to bring money from Aba.

"Arriving Port Harcourt, it went to Zenith Bank, conveyed the cash implied for the bank. As indicated by the complainant, by then the warriors landed and left. Presently it remained the cash for Stanbic Bank and the driver alone. Subsequently, the driver fled with the cash. "We got data on July 11, that a specific Ford Explorer was stopped at the premises of Everyday Supermarket, situated in GRA and that the vehicle contains sacks suspected to be bank property.

"I promptly dispatched my DC Operations to the zone to confirm. Luckily for us, it was found that the sacks in the vehicle have a place with Stanbic Bank on account of the seals on them. "The sum recuperated, by, is N60,250,000. The driver that stopped the auto there is the driver of Everyday Supermarket. He is on the run now."