Barclays Bank Sh14m ATM heist was an inside job – DCI Kinoti
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti has confirmed that the theft of sh14 million at various Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) operated by Barclays Bank was an inside job.
According to the DCI, an initial investigation has revealed that the daring heist was executed by employees attached to the bank.
Kinoti said his team of detectives was concluding its probe in readiness to hand over the investigation file to the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Hajji’s office for prosecution of those found culpable.
“What happened at Barclays Bank is what we call constructive robbery which is a type of theft committed by employees of an organization. Look at the precision and exactly what was targeted. We are talking about a place that has CCTV cameras. However, those cameras were smeared with some substance,” he said.
On Wednesday detectives arrested a taxi driver and impounded a Probox vehicle suspected to have been used in the theft.
Five Barclays bank officials and a group of G4S security guards were earlier this week taken into custody to aid the police with the investigation.
A string of robberies in the long Easter weekend left Barclays Bank short of more than Sh14 million after four teller machines were broken into in Mutindwa, Mater Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospita and Kenya Cinema all in Nairobi County.