THREE MEN are being questioned about a robbery in which a bank worker and his partner’s family were held hostage at gunpoint before €7.6 million in cash was taken from the vaults of a bank.
The suspects were arrested during a co-ordinated series of Garda searches in Dublin’s north inner city yesterday morning.
One of the men was arrested at his own home while the other two were taken into custody after gardaí raided a number of properties.
The men are being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be held for up to 72 hours without charge.
The suspects, in their 20s and 30s, are known to gardaí. They are closely associated with a criminal family in the north inner city.
The gang behind the €7.6 million raid staked out a house at Badgers Hill, Kilteel, Co Kildare, where Bank of Ireland employee Shane Travers (24) was staying with the family of his girlfriend.
A six-man armed gang burst into the property and held the occupants hostage.
Mr Travers was given a number of bags and told to go to his place of work at a cash storage facility at Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin 2.
The money was delivered to the drop-off point in Clontarf. The family managed to free themselves at 8.30am and walk to Ashbourne Garda station.
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