Robbers posing as police have stolen £12million of cash in an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist at a South African airport.
The money was taken when fake officers stopped security guards who were loading the money onto a flight bound for London on Tuesday night.
No shots were fired during the incident at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, and the thieves were said to have known exactly which boxes to target in a ‘slick’ operation.
A police source at the airport said the heist happened at 7pm when the robbers, masquerading as police, drove into a restricted zone and headed straight to cash-laden containers unloaded from a cargo plane.
‘They told the security that they were carrying out an investigation and the security guards opened the boom gate for them,’ said the source.
The company that operates the airport, South Africa’s largest, confirmed in a statement that an armed robbery had taken place.
Hangwani Mulaudzi, spokesman for the elite police unit the Hawks, also confirmed the ‘robbery’ but refused to divulge details ‘pending investigations.’
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