{"id":3507,"date":"2021-07-31T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:48:01","slug":"mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: The most intriguing Quelimane bank heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>An armed group has hit the main Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI) branch in Quelimane, the capital of Zamb\u00e9zia province, a police source said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The gang of five reportedly gained access to the bank\u2019s vault and stole an undisclosed amount of money,this after one of the employees let a vehicle they were using into a restricted part of the bank, Zamb\u00e9zia police spokesman Sidner Lonzo told Lusa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey entered from the back of the facility. Unfortunately, after this event, six more doors were opened, but to be opened there must be authorisation from an employee inside the bank,\u201d Lonzo said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers and security guards remained unaware of the robbery, as the vehicle was authorised to enter a restricted part of the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary police enquiries established that the group threatened five bank workers with firearms and stole the money, leaving them locked in one of the rooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe employees who were in the area to attending to the public and the customers themselves suspected nothing, neither did the security guard who authorised the entry of the gang \u2013 so much so that they left by the same door through which they entered,\u201d Lonzo added.<\/p>\n<p>National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) is investigating the possibility that some bank workers may have facilitated the robbery. \u201cEmployees are being questioned,\u201d Lonzo admitted.<\/p>\n<p>BCI is 97% held by Portuguese banks Caixa Geral de Dep\u00f3sitos (CGD, through Parbanca SGPS) and BPI.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of Mozambique figures dating from April this year indicated BCI as the first in a list of three banks by systemic importance in Mozambique, followed by Banco Internacional de Mo\u00e7ambique (Millennium Bim) and Standard Bank.<\/p>\n<p>In the ratio that measures importance in the sector, known as D-SIB, BCI tops the list with 278 points, followed by Millennium Bim with 257 and Standard Bank with 159.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. An armed group has hit the main Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI) branch in Quelimane, the capital of Zamb\u00e9zia province, a police source said on Thursday. The gang of five reportedly gained access to the bank\u2019s vault and stole an undisclosed amount of money,this after one of the employees let a vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mozambique: The most intriguing Quelimane bank heist - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An armed group has hit the main Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI) branch in Quelimane, the capital of Zamb\u00e9zia provin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mozambique: The most intriguing Quelimane bank heist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An armed group has hit the main Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI) branch in Quelimane, the capital of Zamb\u00e9zia provin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-31T14:51:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/07\/img-610562773aaf8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1374\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"791\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mozambique: The most intriguing Quelimane bank heist\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-31T14:51:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\"},\"wordCount\":315,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2021\/07\/img-610562773aaf8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-the-most-intriguing-quelimane-bank-heist-watch\",\"name\":\"Mozambique: The most intriguing Quelimane bank heist - 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