Employee suspected: 20 kilos of gold disappeared from the Sparkasse department in Bonn | EUROtoday

A considerable amount of gold has apparently disappeared from the lockers of a Sparkasse department in Bonn. As the Bonn “General-Anzeiger” studies, round 20 kilograms of gold price round 2.2 million euros are stated to have been stolen from the locker space of ​​a department on Friedensplatz. A financial institution worker is suspected of gaining unauthorized entry to 2 secure deposit packing containers.

Police confirmed an ongoing investigation on Wednesday, however didn’t present additional particulars. The authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia additionally didn’t present any details about the course of the crime or the precise length of the investigation.

Sparkasse Köln/Bonn introduced that there had been a safety incident within the affected department on December seventeenth. Two lockers had been affected and now we have been in shut contact with the affected prospects since then. “Internal and police investigations have been ongoing since it became known,” it stated.

According to info from the “General-Anzeiger”, searches had been carried out on the alleged perpetrator and his father in reference to the suspected case. The suspected financial institution worker is alleged to have been arrested. It is unclear how entry to the lockers may have been doable. The investigation is ongoing.

Just a couple of days in the past, a theft price tens of millions was found within the financial savings financial institution in Gelsenkirchen. The unknown suspects broke into buyer lockers and stole money, gold and valuables price at the least 30 million euros.