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$2.3 million worth of gold goes missing from Air France flight |
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Update: 10:56, Wednesday, Sep 25,2013 (GMT+7)
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Air
France has confirmed that it has filed a complaint after gold bars
worth about €1.6 million ($2.3 million) were stolen from a plane bound
for Zurich from Paris.
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“We hope the investigations will allow us
to quickly determine the sequence of events and identify those
responsible,” a spokesman said.
The gold bars, weighing around 50
kilos, were placed inside the plane at Paris’s Charles-de-Gaulle
airport last Thursday by employees of the US security firm Brink’s.
It
is as yet unclear how the theft happened, but an airport source said
the robbers had “probably made use of airport accomplices”.
According
to the firms, these kind of shipments take place every day and Brink’s
employees usually stay on the tarmac until the plane takes off.
In
a separate case also involving Air France, police earlier this month
made a record haul of 1.3 tonnes of pure cocaine found in 30 suitcases
on board a flight from the Venezuelan capital Caracas to Paris.
Theresa
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