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Daylight Bank Robbery in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:50 pm
by Kinetic
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Hold-up in daylight in Phnom Penh: Five armed individuals robbed the branch of RHB Indochina bank located on Mao Tse Toung Boulevard in Phnom Penh...


https://cambodgemag.com/2018/08/crime-h ... -penh.html

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:06 pm
by console
Wow ... SEA only place in the world people use scooters for getaway vehicals.

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:13 pm
by Brody
console wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:06 pm Wow ... SEA only place in the world people use scooters for getaway vehicals.
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Watch a Scooter Gang Pull Off a Jewel Heist in London

http://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/1356 ... -in-london

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:17 pm
by that genius
Cambodia very seldom has armed bank robberies.

I think this is only the second one I've heard of.

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:23 pm
by PSD-Kiwi
Initial reports are that the perps are suspected to be Chinese, and that they made off with approximately $100k...either way, that was a pretty brazen robbery, not many, if any, reported bank robberies in Cambodia, normally jewellery sellers or money changers.


There is a short video of the robbery on Fresh News

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:32 pm
by Username Taken
console wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:06 pm Wow ... SEA only place in the world people use scooters for getaway vehicals.
You're right. Those idiots should have been driving a stolen car. :whip:

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:39 pm
by hanno
I always thought that it must be pretty easy to hold up a bank in Cambodia. Zero security, and I am not counting the token 4-kilo security guard asleep outside the premises.

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:39 pm
by John Bingham
They seem pretty competent, I don't think they are part of Francoise' crew.

http://m.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/en ... 08-49.html

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:42 pm
by Felgerkarb
Slow moving crew.

Re: Daylight Hold-up in Phnom Penh

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:20 pm
by Kinetic
console wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:06 pm Wow ... SEA only place in the world people use scooters for getaway vehicals.
In France it's the same, they use big scooters to escape.