​​​One day af­ter thieves made off with an undis­closed amount of cash from the Sco­tia­bank Au­to­mat­ic Teller Ma­chine (ATM) in Curepe, bank of­fi­cials said yes­ter­day that they were “still as­sess­ing the fi­nan­cial im­pact”.

The ATM at Curepe Junc­tion was bro­ken in­to around 8 pm on Tues­day by ban­dits be­lieved to be wear­ing the uni­forms of a se­cu­ri­ty firm which is usu­al­ly utilised by the bank to car­ry out cash trans­ac­tions.

It was re­port­ed that an es­tate se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer of Ex­ec­u­tive Body­guard Ser­vices Lim­it­ed was on pa­trol when he was no­ti­fied via the se­cu­ri­ty mon­i­tor­ing cen­tre that an alarm had been trig­gered at the ATM.
He lat­er ar­rived at the lo­ca­tion and found the room lead­ing to the area where the cash bins are kept open and the four mon­ey bins miss­ing.

Ini­tial checks re­vealed there was no forced en­try, lead­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors to be­lieve the sus­pects had a key to the lock.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Sco­tia­bank’s Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tion’s Man­ag­er Cindy Mo­hammed said, “We are still as­sess­ing the fi­nan­cial im­pact and con­tin­ue to work with the au­thor­i­ties in this on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.”

She added, “Sco­tia­bank con­tin­ues to pri­ori­tise the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of cus­tomers trans­act­ing busi­ness at all of our lo­ca­tions na­tion­wide and will con­tin­ue to work along­side law en­force­ment to pro­mote a safer, bet­ter en­vi­ron­ment for all.”