Big Airport Theft
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) • AMSTERDAM, Feb. 13. Police were today investigating the theft of British banknotes worth about £lOO,OOO from a K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines plane at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.
The airline announced today that the notes, in one of five wooden boxes packed in sacks containing banknotes worth about £5 million were stolen last Saturday, They were being taken from Johannesburg to a Geneva bank. The aircraft left Johannesburg on Friday and followed its normal route stopping at Kano in Nigeria, Rome and Zurich. As K.L.M. had no connexion from Zurich to Geneva, it was taking the money via Schiphol rather than transfer it to another company’s plane. In Johannesburg, a K.L.M. spokesman said the missing banknotes had “definitely not” originated from there.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 13
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