2 arrested in Tarkwa bullion van robbery attack

• Posted on October 20, 2021October 20, 2021
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Western Regional Police Command has arrested two employees of Mon-Trans Limited to help in investigations into Monday morning’s bullion van robbery in Tarkwa in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality.

Two armed robbers amidst sporadic shooting, robbed a bullion van of more than GH¢107,000 in front of a supermarket in the centre of Tarkwa.

The robbers were said to have trailed the van, which arrived at the Ransbet Super Shopping Market at about 9 a.m. to collect the weekend sales and send it to the bank.

The Tarkwa Police Divisional Command arrested a driver and a teller of Mon-Trans Limited.

In a Statement signed by the Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP (Ms) Olivia Ewuraabena Adiku, the police said preliminary investigations indicate that the two workers, a driver and a teller of the company, went to Ransbet Supermarket for proceeds made over the weekend to be deposited at the bank.

She said even though there was a police detail to provide protection for the two, the two failed to pick up the police officer who was waiting.

The police said from a CCTV account, “In the process of putting the money into the bullion van, the suspects were attacked by a masked armed man who fired at the front tyre and windscreen of the vehicle and bolted with the money on a waiting motorbike.”