Armed robbery in the centre of Constanţa city. Early in the morning, one of the subsidiaries of Carpatica Commercial Bank was broken in by two masked and armed persons who succeeded in running away from the bank after having stolen almost 700 million old lei.
Terror in the Carpatica Commercial Bank subsidiary, next to the park of the Culture House. At the opening, two masked people broke in, pointed the gun at the guard and robbed the treasurer. Everything lasted less than 40 seconds. Ironically, in February the bank had been checked by the police and the result had been a very good one with respect to the security systems. The alarm was triggered at 8.56 hrs, as this was the moment when the treasurer managed to push the panic button. Meantime, the guard which was immobilised during the robbery called 112 for the police. The intervention squads of NEI Guard, and also the police officers and the gendarmes reached the crime scene in a record time. Unfortunately, the two masked armed robbers were already gone. According to the police representatives, right after the opening, two masked persons broke in the bank. One of them, carrying a revolver, managed to immobilise the almost 50 year old guard, while the second robber, holding a bag, set to the one of the treasurers. While being threatened, the woman was told to throw the money into the bag. Due to the very deep state of shock, she was not able to follow the orders, so the thief helped himself. In less than 40 second, the masked men left the bank, having taken almost 70,000.00 lei. At the moment of the attack, there was also a client inside the bank. "In less than two minutes, my people were there", declared Vasile Buzate, the manager of Nei Guard, the company in charge of the monitoring of the robbed bank. "We actioned very quickly, but the men were already gone when we got there", Buzatu added. He also mention
