Details have emerged on the behind the scenes arrangements that led to the Thursday bloodless robbery that saw Sh72 million stolen from the Standard Chartered Bank in Nairobi.
It has emerged that the plot was in the making for the last five months, and included a team of 20 people, including a G4S top official, police regular and administration cops and a taxi driver.
Also part of the team were G4S officials, probably the reason behind the swift and quiet success of the robbery, but whose plotters lacked a strategy to dissapear into thin air after.
The masterminds, eight of whom were arrested on Saturday, also assembled two vans, and a civilian who would drive the getaway car once the loot had been collected.
Once done, the group retreated to the Thogoto Forest where the loot was shared and each person left to go his way, but hours later detectives arrested a number of them.
Details indicate that once the job was complete, the getaway drover handed over the car, a borrowed vehicle, to an unsuspecting friend to return into to the owner.
One of the vehicles, a Toyota Voxy van said to belong to a police couple which also participated in the heist was found in a garage being sprayed with a new coat of paint.
Detectives also netted a Subaru vehicle said to have bought on the day of the robbery by one of the suspects, police officer, who was also arrested while driving it to his Kisii home.
The money, according to the Standard, was being ferried to an ATM before the suspected criminals, some of whom posed as escort officers stuck and stole it.
An officer privy to the investigations said that the gangsters did not equally share the money due to the hurry to dissapear, telling the paper that everyone picked what he could.
“They were in such a hurry. They decided that the money that you find in a bag that you picked is what belongs to you,” the officer said.
Police have since recovered Sh7 million from the nabbed suspects.