Post-bag thief on remand

A 28-YEAR-OLD Nicosia man who worked at Cyprus Airways’ (CY) Larnaca airport cargo department was yesterday remanded in custody for six days on suspicion of stealing around €5,000 in cash from postal bags.

Police said they have received six complaints since November last year, claiming that a large number of postal bags have been stolen from Larnaca airport.

Working in coordination with the postal services, CY and airport authorities, police were led to the suspect who was arrested on Sunday, Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou said.

The alleged offence regards both bags arriving from overseas and ones that were meant to be sent abroad.

Police said the suspect admitted to stealing around 100 postal bags since January 2010, removing between €3,000 and €5,000 in cash from letters inside the bags.

On Sunday, the suspect led investigators to three points near the airport and one on the Meneou to Kiti road, where he said he had discarded the bags.

One of the points was a large garbage bin at the old airport inside which police found four postal bags containing piles of opened letters.

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