hardwood wrote:Stolen money is cursed. There is a certain Omondi who stole 54m from JKIA and managed to flee to Congo. He went on a spending spree which included hiring a congolese band to entertain him everyday at his house in kinshasa. Then the cash run out and he came back home to kenya and was promptly arrested and jailed.
I don't know about the curse but it could be so. I've heard of gangs that stole artifacts, millions and art in Europe and South America never to be traced.
I just think that the G4S kinda heist and the other similar in Kenya are not works of professional thieves but desperate people who over years of ferrying or guarding the millions while taking home peanuts decide to plan over time and eventually take a dare, but they are not seasoned thugs. They are normal people struggling to pay school fees and rent and can't even take the wife out on a decent date yet these currencies in millions is entrusted to their eyes each day.
I remember Omondi used half of his loot to bribe his way in small amounts from JKIA to the border and beyond which tells you that the cops were way ahead of the guy's plan, once it was depleted he came back home like the prodigal son because it was better to eat raw ugali in jail than eat with "pigs" in DRC.
The problem is that they cannot let you get away with these kind of heists because they set a bad precedent and that's why some amount is often discovered within the first 48 hours whether real or not, sometimes even before the thugs are caught. I think it's Americans who came up with that concept.
BBI will solve it :)