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Armed pillion riders snatched around $50,000 and other valuables from a UK-returned Pakistani in Clifton at gunpoint, police confirmed on Friday.
South Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Syed Asad Raza said that the complainant wanted to close his account in a private bank in Clifton and withdrew all of his currency.
Raza said the bank management asked the person to contact them after three days and to visit their office on Thursday at 4pm.
He added that a bank official gave the cash to the complainant at an ordinary counter despite it being such a big sum. The SSP opined that all these factors raised some “suspicions” and the investigators were also looking into these aspects.
Meanwhile, Boat Basin police registered a first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, a day ago under sections 34 (common intention), 392 (robbery) and 397 (robbery or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of Zulfiqar Ali.
Ali said that he resided in a rented bungalow in Clifton after coming from the UK on November 18 and had a private business.
He said he visited Standard Chartered on Monday and got information about his account from an official who informed him that it was blocked as he did not use it for a considerable period.
Ali said he had told the bank official to close his dollar account and return his cash to him. He said the official informed him that the bank would complete the process and alert him.
The complainant said the official called him on Thursday to visit the bank before 4pm.
The FIR added Ali reached the bank around 3:30pm where the official gave him $49,964.68 dollars at the cash counter.
It further said that Ali had requested the bank official to provide him with a safe place so that he could secure his amount, as it was a big sum in cash, to which Zeeshan had responded that the bank tended to give cash at the counter.
The FIR said that Ali drove back alone and when he reached his home and parked the car then two armed pillion riders arrived from behind. It added that they showed him a pistol and demanded the packet containing dollars, threatening that otherwise they would shoot him.
Ali said he was terrified and the suspects snatched his cell phone, purse, Rs50,000 and the dollars he had hidden, and fled afterwards.
He said that he could identify the suspects and requested that police proceedings be initiated.
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Nov 25, 2022 10:25pm
Inside job for sure.
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Nov 25, 2022 10:34pm
Another great day in the pure land
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Nov 25, 2022 10:34pm
Drawing or caring PKR/50000 is dangerous and this guy was walking around with $50,000?
He should consider himself lucky to be alive!
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Nov 25, 2022 10:34pm
Bank staff involved. They should be all caught and given 50 years in jail. Expats will not remittances to pakistan, if this happens.
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Nov 25, 2022 10:38pm
From an ordinary citizen to the president...every body has figured out a way to steal money...
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Nov 25, 2022 10:39pm
Try carrying 50 grand in New York!
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Nov 25, 2022 10:41pm
Why didn’t he transfer the amount to another bank rather than withdrawing it in cash?
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Nov 25, 2022 10:43pm
Suspicious!! The money belonged to his wife [or ex-]. OR the new hawala system!
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Nov 25, 2022 10:54pm
Pathetic Bank : Standard Chartered. Looter no.1 . The Bank Manager is part of the scheme. They all are involved.
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Nov 25, 2022 10:58pm
The incident clearly shows that the bank officials are involved in this well planned robbery. The investigator should start their investigations from the bank and they would definitely reach the culprits.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:00pm
Provincial police chief and provincial interior minister should immediately be sacked and sent to jail. The law and order in Karachi has become joke and this corrupt Sindh government is hand in gloves with the criminals. I wonder if these two robbers,after looting the $,had gone to Bilawal house to pay half of the amount as share.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:02pm
Nothing will happen and the thieves will never be caught in a city like Karachi.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:07pm
sounds fishy! suspicion against the bank employees
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Nov 25, 2022 11:08pm
Good luck finding your stolen cash and that too in the land of pure!!
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Nov 25, 2022 11:09pm
Very foolish of him. Even in the UK there are people everywhere around, who live just on such businesses. And bank staff are often their partners. Otherwise, they should have arranged an armored cash wagon for the safe carriage of the large cash, on prescribed payment. Besides, you should never withdraw your cash and close your account at the same time because, then you are not banking upon your bank.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:12pm
Must be insider's job. Alerted the thugs
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Nov 25, 2022 11:12pm
The robber might be sitting at the nearby Bilawal House, few blocks away.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:16pm
Why don't they broaden their tax base and get rid of the white elephants like steel mills, railways and PIA alongwith eradication of wide spread corruption?
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Nov 25, 2022 11:29pm
Thug rule from top to bottom!
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Nov 25, 2022 11:31pm
Pakistan zindabad
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Nov 25, 2022 11:32pm
Snatching, is this something new in Karachi? May be Dollars with sign $.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:33pm
Can you spell inside job ?
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Nov 25, 2022 11:39pm
Deja vu, all over again.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:50pm
Sad state of security in Pakistan. How can anyone live over there or invest in that country?
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Nov 25, 2022 11:50pm
The policemen, DHA security have completely failed to protect the lives and properties of the residents. Everyday people are being robbed and threatened. The pathetic road conditions make it worse. Police just wasting petrol roaming around. Most of the cases are registered near and around Bilawal House.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:57pm
It is very dangerous now-a-days to carry cash whether it is local or foreign currency.
Police should take out CCTV footage of the bank counter as well as external footage and show it to the victim so that robbers should be identified.
Such a huge amount should not have been handed over by bank cashier as other people would have watched delivering cash by the cashier.
The safest way to carry the foreign currency would have been if the victim would have asked the bank to give him a pay order.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:07am
He should have asked the bank to transfer the money to an account in a different bank. Who in their right mind carries $50000 in their hand in Karachi?
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Nov 26, 2022 12:18am
Not Robbers fault.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:33am
Not a big news.
What is cheaper, a toilet roll or a rupee note? Sound like Germany a century ago.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:40am
Why don’t bank asked him for security. It is usual practice in Punjab that bank take signature of receiver if he bare the responsibility or bound to provide him police protection.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:42am
Welcome to Pakistan Ali.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:45am
Bank is involved !
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Nov 26, 2022 12:52am
Sir. You can identify the suspects even if you have their CLEAR photos. It is not going to do any good. You can be rest assured that the bank employee who told you to come after several days wanted time to make arrangement to find the robbers who would give him the highest commission from the loot. Do you think that the police would catch the culprits and depart with their share? Good luck. Best will be to go back to UK with thanks for letting yo live !!
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Nov 26, 2022 12:56am
What else you expect when Zardari family party is killing everything a human being can thrive on thank you neutral Bajwa.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:02am
Why someone Pakistani would walk around in Karachi with $50,000 in cash?
Victim has only to blame himself.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:11am
Fake story, the truth is something else and never unveiling. This is Pakistan, people all over world knows how unsafe is Karachi for carrying that much USD in cash.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:46am
An inside job indeed! In Karachi and Sindh there is no rule of law, compliments of Waderas!
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Nov 26, 2022 01:50am
Inside job from Bank. How would they know he has dollars.
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Nov 26, 2022 02:00am
Bizarre story. Nothing makes sense. Who collects cash like this. But what do you do? TIP (This is Pakistan).
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Nov 26, 2022 02:12am
first it was corrupt policeman trying to take a pakistani Swedish national to police station because of tinted windows at gun point ... now this
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Nov 26, 2022 02:14am
………film story robbery; obviously it is bank clerk/cashier who handed over the dollars is key culprit…..
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Nov 26, 2022 02:25am
Looks like an inside job, I'd start with the bank teller and all his contacts. Check his personal phone and work from there
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Nov 26, 2022 02:33am
Arrest all the bank employee, you will find the $$$$$$$$$$$
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Nov 26, 2022 02:53am
Pakistan zindabaad
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Nov 26, 2022 02:59am
The Bank management have their own thieves and robbers, stay alerted 24 hours whenever they are needed for this kind of work. They usually split the money. This is Pakistan which is ruled by thieves, looters and corrupts.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:24am
This is a daily event in major cities across the nation . The newspaper will have no space to print if street crime gets printed . I have family members who were robbed at gun point in bright day light with full view of the public and police did nothing .
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Nov 26, 2022 03:42am
Sounds like the bank employee was definitely involved.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:43am
That is why Swedish Citizen killed the Policeman, knowing that once he went to Police station there would be plenty of men in police uniform with guns, and he would even lose his dignity along with cash. So he killed the culprit. Unfortunately this man did not knew or he is too naive.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:49am
Good news! Natural selection is still in effect.
Only thing that guy forgot was a Neon sign at the back of his car.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:12am
Never carry cash, always demand draft or travellers cheques.l. I am sure the bank worker tipped the thief. Easy target. I can guarantee the thief will not be found.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:12am
Inside job for taking back cash of $50000. May be the one he got this laundered rupees knew what address it is going to .
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Nov 26, 2022 04:17am
Totally inside Bank job and executed professionally by the time arranged by the Bank ! This is Bsnkkng system where they want remittances sent ?
——-“Rama said the bank management asked the person to contact them after three days and to visit their office on Thursday at 4pm.He added that a bank official gave the cash to the complainant at an ordinary counter despite it being such a big sum.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:17am
Small criminals. Real criminal make 12.7 billions in 6 years. And there is no investigation. Not even a mention in the newspaper
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Nov 26, 2022 04:18am
This can't happen without complicity of bank staff.
If had happened in a western country police would solve the case in hours.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:20am
It's a free country for law breakers and a hell for law abiding citizens. Let people bear arms. Let them defend themselves.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:23am
Surprised that local banks carry large amount of US$ in cash.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:28am
The easy way to trace the criminal is to check the CCTV cameras outside the bank premises. As the complainant says he can recognize the culprits, he will do that. The motorbike license plate can also be determined. Hence Police can go ahead & nab the culprits.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:56am
Should expats still visit Pakistan and send remittances after this experience?
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Nov 26, 2022 05:22am
It' seems like the client of the bank, the complainant, is not a very smart person.
Should not have left the bank without an armed escort. When you withdrew
$50,000 dollars, then you can easily afford a security guard to help you get
the money home. Or to another bank.
And it appears that an employee or employees of the bank were fully involved
in this heist. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.
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Nov 26, 2022 05:30am
Clearly the Standard Chartered bank employees are fully involved in this pre-planned robbery. Even a kid can figure this out.
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Nov 26, 2022 05:40am
Inside job.
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Nov 26, 2022 05:42am
Land of mischief Police themselves have turned into robbers!
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Nov 26, 2022 06:14am
The foreign national should have arranged his safety. It is stupid to take so much cash on the streets. Foreigners can not be so reckless!
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Nov 26, 2022 06:53am
Standard Chartered, the bank, were the actual robbers. 1 Million percent - Bulls eye! The actors who robbed the victim were the hired guns by Standard Chartered.
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Nov 26, 2022 06:58am
That’s what is happening in this country. Who in his eighth mins will come back?
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Nov 26, 2022 07:07am
Never use cash better to use payment by bank or cheque transfer
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Nov 26, 2022 07:19am
Common sense does not prevail. Why would you carry approx $50,000 in cash in Karachi instead of having the bank wire the funds to another bank? Obviously, the bank that provided you the cash is involved 100%.
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Nov 26, 2022 07:43am
With chaos and uncertainty in the country this is the beginning, more lawlessness will be coming soon
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Nov 26, 2022 07:51am
All the crooks have to do is share the loot with you know whom, and the rest is Halal for them.
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Nov 26, 2022 07:52am
Should have been advised by bank to take a dollar pay order
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Nov 26, 2022 08:07am
People don't want to take precautionary measures when dealing with cash handling from banks in pakistan as it seems they assume they r doing business in a safe country!! So the result is out as happened to this person.
Best solution was to make a pay order and refund his amount in his home country.
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Nov 26, 2022 09:13am
Interrogate the Bank employees and you will find the accomplice.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:09pm
My suggestion to all visitors to Pakistan.
Come with a one-way ticket. Don't waste your money on return ticket.
But be prepared to leave at a moment's notice.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:30pm
@Syed Hafeez Imran, Certainly inside hands involvement.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:58pm
I have read a lot about this kind of incidents but never read about it's safe recovery yet, however, one can hope that through an impartial investigation of the police, the victim may get his hard earned money back!
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Nov 26, 2022 02:06pm
@Ukasha Rajpoot, That's the reason, when it's own citizens are not safe & protected, why the foreigners will come to invest or do business here.
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Nov 26, 2022 02:31pm
@Kublai, A strict check & balance should be imposed on bank employees!
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Nov 26, 2022 03:49pm
This not the first time this happened. Many people have been robbed as soon as they took a taxi or a rented vehicle from airport on the way to home.
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Nov 26, 2022 09:10pm
Surely Bank people are involved as they knew that he's carrying specific amount and asked for the packet.
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Nov 26, 2022 09:11pm
Surely an inside job from bank employee
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Nov 26, 2022 09:43pm
Exactly this happened to me in Karachi in 2005-6 when I withdrew the money from a bank in N Nazimabad. So nothing changed and zero improvements.
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