Man arrested over Chlorakas bank raid

A MAN was arrested yesterday and remanded in custody in connection with a bank robbery earlier this year at Chlorakas village outside Paphos.

Grogoris Gregoriou, 31, was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning when he arrived back in the country from Athens. He was arrested at Larnaca Airport, where he arrived accompanied by his lawyer.

Gregoriou, from Kato Paphos, was taken before Paphos District Court, where he was remanded in custody for six days.

The bank raid took place on April 22 at around 9.40am, when a masked gunman strode into the Bank of Cyprus in the village and took more than £6,500 in Cyprus pounds and £4,900 in foreign currency. Ordering staff to hand over the cash, he fled with it in a plastic bag, escaping on a powerbike which was later found abandoned.

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