Gunmen cart off $2M from B.E.V. Houston plant

Gunmen cart off $2M from B.E.V. Houston plant

The torched main safe.

ARMED bandits broke into several offices and a workshop, at B.E.V. Fish and Shrimp Processing Plant, Area ‘K’ Houston, East Bank Demerara and carted off some $2M cash from a safe they torched open early yesterday morning.

Management accountant at the establishment, Mr. Tony Debidyal told the Guyana Chronicle it happened about 02:00 h when between five and eight gunmen jumped over the northern fence and confronted eight employees.

He said the bandits held three unarmed security guards and five freezer operators at gunpoint and bound them. Two of the security guards were beaten and had to be treated for head injuries but were not hospitalised.

However, they are in the process of reviewing the security structure of the company, Debidyal said.

He said, while the employees were being guarded by a gunman, accomplices of the latter forced their way into a workshop in the compound and took out gas cylinders and other tools which they used to open the doors of eight offices and the boardroom.

The ransacked offices which were broken into by bandits.

The bandits used a torch to breach the main safe in one office from which they stole the money in the nearly two hours spent in the complex, Debidyal said.

The men knew what they were doing,” he remarked.

A smaller safe in his office, containing only documents and data backup for the computer system, was left open when the robbers departed about 03:30 h and the employees untied themselves and summoned the Police who lifted fingerprints for their investigations.

Debidyal said it is the first major robbery committed on the premises.

B.E.V Fish and Shrimp Processing Plant is co-owned by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Mr. Bruce Vieira and Goddard Enterprises of Barbados.

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