Over NT$5 million stolen from ATMs still unaccounted for: police

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/21
By: Liu Jian-bang and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Most of the NT$83.23 million (US$2.6 million) stolen from First Bank’s automated teller machines (ATMs) earlier this month has been recovered, with only about NT$5.79 million still left unaccounted for, police said Thursday.

Police had already recovered NT$60.27 million of the NT$83 million stolen from 41 First Bank ATMs from July 9 to 11 and had initially thought they had retrieved the remaining NT$23 million after discovering a bag containing a large amount of money near a hiking trail in Neihu on Wednesday.

But a count of the money in the bag yielded only NT$12.63 million, NT$10.4 million short of the intended target, and police said Wednesday they would continue to try to track down the remaining amount.

Later Wednesday, a father-and-son pair handed to police another black bag containing bundles of cash they discovered earlier that day at Xihu Park in Neihu. After the money was counted, police found it amounted to NT$4.54 million, leaving nearly NT$5.79 million still unaccounted for.     [FULL  STORY]