The China Post
Date: July 21, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — About NT$10 million in cash stolen from Taiwan ATMs remains missing as of
A black garbage bag containing part of the stolen money from the ATM heist is found in Neihu District, Taipei, Wednesday, July 20. (CNA)
Wednesday, according to police.
Police announced the figure after counting the sum in a bag of stolen cash retrieved from the mountains of Neihu on Wednesday afternoon.
A total of NT$83 million had been stolen from First Bank ATMs in Taiwan from July 9 to July 11, prosecutors said.
The ATM heist was allegedly committed by three Eastern Europeans: Latvian Andrejs Peregudovs, Romanian Mihail Colibaba and Moldovan Niklae Penkov.
Police arrested the suspects on Sunday and recovered around NT$60 million of the stolen money.
Investigators made a major breakthrough after returning to Neihu District with one of the suspects, Peregudovs. [FULL STORY]