In "Money Heist-Style" Robbery, Banker Tried To Steal Rs 34 Crore
NDTV
A man who worked at the bank in Thane was arrested this week from Pune, three months after the heist.
Planned over nearly one year, reportedly with liberal inspiration from the globally hit Netflix show 'Money Heist', a bank robbery near Mumbai has thrown up details no less intriguing than a binge-watch-worthy web series.
The inside job has been solved with the arrest of five people and the recovery of Rs 12 crore from them, the police said this week. They had earlier found Rs 22 crore at the ICICI Bank branch in Thane during their probe into the heist in July this year.
Altaf Shaikh, 43, the main accused in the case, has been arrested and Rs 9 crore was found from him, the police said. He used to work as a custodian of the vaults at the bank and had plotted the elaborate heist. His sister, identified as Neelofer, has also been arrested, they said.
"Shaikh, a resident of Mumbra, had been working with ICICI Bank as a custodian. As the custodian, he was the caretaker of the bank's locker keys. He spent a year planning the heist, studying the loopholes in the system, and gathering tools to pull it off," a police officer at the Manpada Police Station said.
