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Video shows armored car driver stealing millions

Taipei police yesterday released a videotape showing armored vehicle driver Lee Han-yang (李漢揚) moving NT$56 million (US$1.72 million) from an armored vehicle to his private car last week.

Taipei police said yesterday that according to Chinese security authorities, Lee had entered Shenzhen in Guangdong Province from Hong Kong by train on Tuesday.

Lee is wanted for stealing money he was charged with delivering.

Lee and his colleague, Lin Jung-ter (林榮德) were scheduled to transport NT$79.2 million to branches of Hua Nan Bank and the Bank of Taiwan in Taipei on Tuesday morning after they left the Sindian (新店), Taipei County, office of Group 4 Securicor-Taiwan.

Lee gave Lin a sandwich and a cup of milk tea that caused him to lose consciousness. Lee then locked Lin in the armored vehicle and abandoned it.

Police yesterday released the footage, which had been recorded by a roadside surveillance camera.

Lee abandoned the armored vehicle on Binjiang Street, where he transferred cash from it to a blue car, and left the site with his co-conspirators.

Lee seemed calm in the footage.

Lee's younger brother Lee Chin-tsan (李金瓚), also a suspect, fled to China before the crime, police said.

Police said the theft was well planned and that at least four people were suspects in the crime, adding that the stolen money could still be in Taiwan or may have been smuggled into China via black-market money exchangers.

Taipei police have requested that Chinese authorities help apprehend the Lee brothers.

A police official speaking on condition of anonymity said that without the assistance of Chinese authorities, Taiwanese police cannot apprehend suspects who escape to China.

Citing a similar case from 2004, the official said that a clerk at Bank of Taiwan, Hsieh Shih-hung (謝世宏), was suspected of making off to China with NT$9.7 million from his bank on July 2004.
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