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June 22, 2001



FROM CUBA

Bank robber in eastern Cuba becoming legend

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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