Three suspects ‘laundering’ money with bleach after blowing up two ATMs are detained by police
SETIAM ALAM, MALAYSIA: Three suspected men have been taken into police custody after they were accused of blowing up two ATMs at a bank in Setia Alam, Malaysia on Thursday, February 23. The three unnamed suspects were detained for seven days from three different places near Kuang and Meru on February 28, according to Selangor police head Datuk Hussein Omar Khan.
According to Datuk Hussein, the three suspects blew up two ATMs and escaped with $59,725 from one of them. "In the robbery incident, the three suspects blew up two ATM machines and fled with cash amounting to RM267,150 in one of the machines". The arrest of the three men comes after two other cases of ATM blasts at the same Meru bank in December 2020 and February 2022, Bharian reported.
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Suspects were laundering money
The police chief, Datuk Hussein said at the press conference, “One of the suspects, aged 43, who is suspected of being the mastermind, was detained at the workshop where he worked, and police also seized a gas canister believed to have been used to blow up the ATMs”. The two other suspects, aged 30 and 33, had been arrested in their homes while trying to wash the robbed money, “2 suspects aged 30 and 33 were arrested at their respective homes in Meru where, when the raid was carried out, they were laundering money from the robbery using bleach,” he added. Hussein continued by stating that the three local individuals have criminal and drug convictions according to the police investigation. He said that after the police have finished their investigation, they would send the case to the deputy public prosecutor for prosecution.
Solved two other similar cases
In the conference, the police chief mentioned how the arrest of three suspects in the present case also helped them crack two other, related crimes that had been under investigation since last year, "Following the arrest of the three suspects, we also managed to solve two more ATM explosion cases belonging to the same bank that happened in Meru in December 2020 and February last year." "All suspects are remanded for seven days until March 7 and the case is investigated according to Section 436/379 of the Penal Code," Bharain reported.