Armed bandits once again struck the AH&L Kissoon Limited, Industrial Site, Ruimveldt location yesterday, holding the staff at gunpoint and grabbing over $2M in cash and cheques before escaping in a waiting motor vehicle.
The company has been hit by a string of robberies in recent times and the latest attack occurred at around 2 pm and was perpetrated by three slick bandits who posed as workers of a telephone company to enter the building.
A police release stated that investigations revealed that the three bandits posed as workers attached to the utility company and entered the building where they held the accountant and several staff members at gunpoint. They then took away $2.2M in cash and cheques and escaped in a waiting motor vehicle.
The police were called and responded but did not manage to catch anyone.
On November 20 last year two armed men entered the company’s building at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, where they held the staff at gunpoint and grabbed close to $1M dollars before escaping. According to reports, around 10 am on the said date the two men, who were neatly dressed, entered the company’s Ruimveldt location posing as customers and held the staff in the personnel department at gunpoint. The robbers entered the office, where they ransacked several drawers and a safe. They then made their way out of the compound, jumped onto two waiting motorcycles and rode off.
Just six days earlier two employees of the company’s Camp and Robb streets location were attacked and robbed while they were about to deposit the day’s sales at Republic Bank.
A lone gunman grabbed a bag containing some $945,000 from one of the employees just as he was approaching the bank. In his escape bid the magazine from the bandit’s weapon fell at the scene and it was later picked up by the police.
Back in 2005, the company suffered from a similar attack.
In August 2005, a $1.5 million payroll was snatched from employees near the then National Bank of Industry and Commerce.
The latest incident is being investigated, the police said.
