Robbers Grab Record 604 mil. Yen / 2 Men Commit Nation's Largest Cash Theft In Possible Inside Job
From: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Posted: May 14, 2011

Two men broke into a security company office in western Tokyo early Thursday morning and stole about 604 million yen in cash after slashing a security guard with a knife and beating him with an iron pipe to force him to divulge the combination for the vault.

It was Japan's biggest-ever cash robbery.

Police say the robbery had the hallmarks of an inside job as the thieves took only 20 minutes to carry out the crime and the office had a larger than normal amount of money on hand.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department Friday, the two men entered the Tachikawa office of Nichigetsu Keibi Hosho, a security company headquartered in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, after breaking a window.

After waking up a 36-year-old male security guard who was sleeping on a sofa, they bound his wrists with adhesive tape and then slashed and beat him until he told them the combination for the vault.


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