. {: B/ Z: I2 B8 {" b# I1 C. i4 LMan out $1 million in Paraguay airport heist' X+ f% |$ f5 M1 u, {% i
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$ b U( ^- h- ]July 31, 2007 $ B8 E8 E; B5 y: W. KASUNCION, Paraguay - Gunmen robbed a Chinese citizen of $1 million on Tuesday during a brazen holdup inside an airport in the Paraguayan capital. 1 {( w% M* p$ W# g ! W6 m* D# T# D" L7 y/ gThe heist in an airport boarding area caught police by surprise, and five assailants got away with the booty, police officer Julian Sanabria told reporters. ) y: I3 O) p6 j8 B. h) s* b R# ]6 ^2 o" x
“With automatic weapons in hand, they went up to the Chinese passenger and took away the case with a million dollars,” Sanabria said. “We police were all surprised, and also we could not fire because there were 150 passengers waiting in the boarding area at that moment.” * i& h- h) x$ ~% k* Z' P3 h5 { - k$ ]% m, N* u5 a* C$ `The victim of the robbery, identified by police as Don Jon Kin, owns a currency exchange business at the airport and is a resident of Paraguay.( q0 { T+ o: L4 Z- z7 a
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Police said he was transporting the money to Montevideo, Uruguay, to make a bank deposit in an apparently legal transaction. Large amounts of cash must be declared when entering another country, but in this case the victim never got that far. 6 @5 a# i8 w: t: P1 m; b2 f/ k7 T9 k( b: m9 p/ Y. e$ t; Z& ?( p
In their haste, the assailants did not take another bag of dollars that was impounded by investigators. Authorities did not disclose how much was in that bag.
