A 36-year-old employee at the airport of Thessaloniki was arrested by Airport police on Wednesday morning for stealing money and other items from passengers’ luggage.
According to local media, there have been several complaints by passengers that they were missing cash and other items from their luggage.
Authorities launched an investigation. In the early morning hours of Wednsday, investigators saw a man to look curiously into luggage. He was caught red-handed while he was trying to remove items from the luggage.
He was immediately arrested and taken to prosecutor.
Further research showed that the man has been involved in theft from passengers’ luggage since the beginning of the year. Due to his job, he had access to thousands of luggage passing through the airport of Thessaloniki each and every day.
Conducting research in the man’s private car, police ofund and confiscated:
- 10,500 euros
- 391 US Dollars
- 12,000 Yen
- 100Australian Dollars
- 45 UK Pounds
- 2,910 Russian Rubles
- 495 Serbian dinars
- 400 Hungarian Forints
- Two bank account books with high deposits
All the tiems found in his car were products of theft.
The man is to be charged with “distinguished cases of theft.”
PS I suppose research into his house or bank locker will bring into daylight more stolen ‘treasuries’.
Good job to the Greek police who catched him.
One question though; who on earth keeps cash in checked baggage?????