The Czech police are looking for a 33-year-old employee of one of the security agencies in Prague, who took banknotes of a total value of half a billion crowns from his company building. The feat is all the greater, that there was no use of a weapon. For information, which will lead to the recovery of the stolen cash, the agency is ready to pay out two million euros. Nobody in the Czech Republic has promised such a great prize, but the stolen amount is also record-breaking. From the treasury of a cash transport company, supposedly disappeared 500 million crowns, that is, the equivalent 69 million zlotys. According to the daily Pravo”, Frantiszek Prohazka, employed in a security agency, was to withdraw cash from the company's vault. He allegedly repacked the money into bags, took outside the building and handed it over to an accomplice, which drove off in an unknown direction. Prohazka himself returned to work most calmly in the world.
– This insolence is unbelievable – underlines the newspaper reference. According to unconfirmed information, the money was to be delivered by the agency to ATMs, the latter, however, refuses to comment on the matter.
If the news of Prohazka's feat is confirmed, it will be the biggest theft in Czech history. 500 million kroner it 69 million zlotys, 28 million dollars either 19 million euros. The stolen money, even in the highest denominations, weighed about one hundred kilograms.
Theft of the century in the Czech Republic
