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Mozambique: Police foil attempted robbery by security guards – Watch

7:28 CAT | 13 Apr 2022

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Three former private security guards are under arrest, following their involvement in a foiled attempt to steal over three million meticais (about 47,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate), the Mozambican police reported on Tuesday.

The Maputo city police spokesperson, Leonel Muchina, told reporters that the trio of former guards, one still in work, resorted to an armoured money collection vehicle, with phony logos of a private security company, to hoodwink the company that wanted to transport the three million meticais to the bank.

“With the stickers over which they printed the name of the private security company (G4S – Group Four Securicor) on the doors of the vehicle, they drove to the company and proposed to transport about 3.2 million meticais which they intended to take for themselves,” Muchina said.

He added that they are also charged with offenses such as membership of a criminal association and forgery of documents. Among the group, one of the members is still working for G4S. while the two others had already been expelled.

“After realising what was going on, the management of the company immediately tipped-off the police who rushed to the scene and arrested the false guards who also carried fake identity cards,” Muchina said, not ruling out the possibility of collusion with other security company staff.

The security guards who had been expelled, he explained, were very much acquainted with the routine of the money collection vehicle, but specialist teams will supply further details on the matter.

One of the guards, who provided the company vehicle, confirmed his involvement but denied planning the robbery.

“I was home when my colleagues rang me up. I met them at the agreed place where we put the G4S stickers on the doors of the vehicle. This vehicle does not belong to G4S but to Executive Protection which I am working for,” he said.

One of the accomplices of the former security guard claims that hunger pushed him towards crime, and the fact that he worked for the company made it easy for them to forge all the necessary credentials and monitor the money collecting teams.

Watch the TVM report