HAVANA, June 20 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén) - People around Holguín
province are beginning to talk about the man who robbed the bank in Nicaro
sometime between April 29 and May 1 as the stuff of legend. Whoever it was has
not been aprehended and townsfolk are putting their own spin on things.
For starters, they have decided that it is a man and that he acts alone, and
that he is extremely capable, with methods and resources that you only see in
movies.
Whoever it was, stole half a million dollars and one and a half million
pesos from the bank. Two other robberies that have never been solved by police
are also attributed to the same character; a safe job at a naval base in 1988
that netted 11,000 pesos, and another at the nickel processing plant in Nicaro
in 1999. No one seems to know how much was taken in that one.
The elements people talk about are Mission Impossible stuff: deactivated
alarms, papered over windows to prevent light leaks, safes cut open, and no
clues left for police investigators or scent for their dogs. The perps vanish
without a trace.
The biggest question, say some, is: What does someone do with so much money
in a closed, tightly-controlled society such as Cuba's?
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