Record sum stolen in Prague

A security agency employee is suspected of having stolen half a billion crowns (some 27 million US dollars) in cash from the agency’s office of Saturday. According to a spokesperson for the Prague police, it is probably the biggest robbery in the country’s history. The police have launched a nationwide search for the suspect. Previously the highest sum stolen in cash was 153 million crowns, which was taken when an armoured car carrying money from a bank in Prague was held up in September 2002. The robbers were never found and the investigation was shelved this year.