Thieves steal £22,000 from company safe

By a Staff Reporter

LIMASSOL police were yesterday looking for two thieves who burgled the offices of a company over the weekend and took off with £22,000.

Employees of Amathus Navigation went to work as usual on Monday morning, but failed to notice the safe was not in its usual place. They didn’t realise anything until the afternoon, when they called police, who dispatched a forensic team to scan for clues.

According to police, the burglars used an outside staircase to break into the offices on the fourth floor of a building near Limassol’s old port. The thieves carried the heavy safe into a storage room and used a blowtorch to cut it open.

Inside, they found £22,000 in cash, which they took before making their escape. On the way out, police said, the burglars decided to break into an adjacent office, but beat a quick retreat after triggering the alarm. In their haste, they apparently dumped their tools, which police later found.

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