On the run for weeks: Employees are said to have worked millions in cash transporters

A 28-year-old employee of a money transport company in Bremen is said to have stolen several million euros in cash.

The police and the public prosecutor's office are investigating serious theft and using photos to find the suspect.

The woman was on the run after the theft, said a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office on Friday.

Another woman who is suspected of aiding and abetting is already in custody.

The "Weser-Kurier" had previously reported on the case on Friday.

According to the information, the theft had already occurred on May 21, the Friday before Pentecost.

The spokeswoman said it was only noticed on Tuesday after the holiday weekend that the money had disappeared.

When asked, she did not give an exact amount.

According to the "Weser courier", it should be eight million euros.

According to the investigators in the company in the Walle district, the employee was responsible for packing funds ordered by customers, which are then delivered with a security transport.

On the day of the crime, the 28-year-old is said to have put several security bags filled with money in a roll container and then called in sick.

The roll container is said to have been loaded into a black van later.

The woman may be abroad

The spokeswoman gave no details about the exact course of events.

It is still being determined how exactly the money in the container could be smuggled out of the company.

The van itself was filmed by a surveillance camera.

According to the investigators, the Bremen license plates had been stolen shortly before.

The vehicle was a rental car that had been rented from a rental company in Berlin-Spandau two days earlier and was put back on the weekend of Pentecost.

The money and the 28-year-old have since disappeared.

In the meantime, there have been indications that the woman has gone abroad, said the prosecutor's spokeswoman.

Where the alleged perpetrator is currently located is unknown.

The investigators are now relying on evidence from the population and published photos of the suspects.

The spokeswoman said they were looking for clues about the woman's whereabouts and the whereabouts of the money.

In addition, the investigators are also interested in clues to possible accomplices, the black transporter, the roll container and the stolen license plates.

The company concerned did not want to comment on the case when asked by the dpa.

The investigation is being conducted into a particularly serious case of theft.

According to the public prosecutor's office, this carries a prison sentence of up to ten years.

Every day, three billion euros are moved in vans

Valuables transport companies are repeatedly targeted by criminals.

Often, however, robbers target the money transporters and the money messengers.

Last year there were a number of robberies on money transporters in Berlin, for example.

However, there are also some known cases in which employees stole or defrauded the value transport companies.

In 2018, the driver of a money transporter and his accomplice in Schleswig-Holstein were sentenced to several years in prison.

The Kiel district court saw it as proven that the two men transferred around 2.4 million euros in cash from the money transporter to another vehicle unnoticed during a tour from Hamburg to Kiel.

In 2019, a money messenger was sentenced to four years imprisonment for theft before the Hamburg district court. The then 28-year-old had collected revenue from supermarkets with a driver in the Lübeck area. The criminal chamber was convinced that the 28-year-old gave more than 600,000 euros to at least one accomplice. The 28-year-old turned himself in to the police. The money has disappeared since the fact.

According to statistics from the Federal Association of German Money and Valuable Services, around three billion euros are moved every day in money transporters. Banknotes and coins would be driven across the country in 2,400 specially armored vehicles and processed in the company's own cash centers. Of the total of around 11,000 employees nationwide, 7,300 armed and specially trained employees take care of banks and shops. Around 3700 other employees sort, count and check banknotes and coins for authenticity. According to industry information, sales in the entire industry were around 500 million euros last year.