A total of 150 packages containing clothing, cosmetics and electronic items, estimated to be worth TT$250,000, were stolen from Web Source on Monday night.
And although between 10 to 15 packages were “anonymously” returned to police by Wednesday, the company said it intends to fulfil its promise to reimburse all affected customers by Friday.
Contacted for an update yesterday, CEO Lincoln Maharaj declined to say much more, as the investigation was ongoing.
He said, “We have started to receive invoices for missing packages from customers and would be repaying customers by Friday as promised.”
Unwilling to disappoint customers who were anxious to take possession of their packages, Maharaj said Web Source continued operations yesterday and would continue to do so for the rest of the week as normal.
Eight men broke into the company’s Trincity compound on Monday night and cut their way into the main office and warehouse using bolt cutters and blow torches, following which they took two vans loaded with the stolen packages.
The two vehicles were recovered in Laventille between Monday night and yesterday morning. They were towed to the Arouca Police Station, where they were processed for prints before being handed back to the Web Source team.
Guardian Media understands that following a call by acting Senior Supt Roger Alexander on Monday for the stolen goods to be returned, several of the packages were anonymously dropped off at a media house in Port-of-Spain on Monday night.
Sources close to the investigation also claimed some police officers had been personally contacted and asked to collect some of the stolen merchandise from several homes in the Beetham Gardens area.
Questions are now being asked about why those people who anonymously dropped off the stolen goods were not detained and charged with receiving stolen property, or even questioned about how they came to be in possession of the items, since this could help officials determine who the perpetrators were.
