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Food chain robbed of millions of leva

Mon, Dec 14 2009 10:38 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Food chain robbed of millions of leva

Photo: Ivan Grigorov

A daring bank robbery took place in Sofia in the late hours of December 13 2009, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said.

The robbery took place in one of the supermarkets of food retail chain Fantastico in Studentski Grad (Student Town) borough.

According to police, a group of men broke into the premises at 12.40am and managed to open a metal safety box and escape with a substantial sum.

Police said that the exact amount was yet to be established but, according to BNT, it was more than two million leva, Fantastico's weekend turnover.

According to BNT, the security company supposed to protect the premises did not notice the robbers. The CCTV recording only showed one masked man, armed with a machine gun, guarding the door while the other robbers worked on opening the metal box.

The Fantastico robbery is the second armed robbery in Sofia in the past four days.

A private vault on Sofia's Dondoukov Boulevard was also stolen in the early hours of December 10 2009.

Between 160 and 190 of the vault's boxes had been opened and emptied by the robbers with losses estimated to total hundreds of thousands of leva, if not millions.

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