Car-jacked vehicle found

POLICE have found the car stolen on Tuesday night in Frenaros by an unknown thief who car-jacked a man in Frenaros, making off with the car and a briefcase with around €70,000 belonging to the driver.

Famagusta CID Deputy Director Paris Paraskevas said: “The vehicle in which the perpetrator fled was detected at around 11pm Tuesday night in an open space outside Dherynia with the engine running. Police sealed off the area and officers of the forensic department of the HQ have collected evidence”.

“Certain people have been questioned and by the looks of it there we accomplices. Our investigation leads us to that direction”, he said. “It appears that the perpetrator seemed to know the area very well to abandon the car at such a secluded place”.

The car jacking took place on Tuesday night when the 47 year-old owner of a betting-shop was driving slowly through Frenaros on his way from Larnaca to Paralimni. Out of nowhere, a high-powered motorcycle suddenly emerged from a side-street and collided with his vehicle.

While the driver sat dazed and confused, the motorcycle rider got up, opened the driver’s car door, threw him out of the car, got in and drove off at high speed. “The unfortunate driver failed to call the police immediately as he did not have his mobile phone on him and nobody stopped to help him”, Paraskevas added.

Inside the car was a briefcase containing between €60,000 and €70,000 plus some cheques.

The motorcycle used in the collision belongs to a British soldier and lay abandoned in an Ayia Napa building since 2004. On Sunday night it was reported stolen. The police are positive that the perpetrator must have known that money was being moved every Tuesday.

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