€7.6m tiger kidnapping probe progresses with arrest of bank employee

A MASSIVE Garda investigation into the biggest bank robbery in recent years stepped up a gear yesterday with the arrest of a Bank of Ireland employee.

The official was arrested by detectives investigating the robbery of €7.6 million from a Bank of Ireland distribution centre in Dublin city centre on February 27 last.

The heist was carried out after an armed gang targeted a bank worker, his girlfriend, her mother and five-year-old nephew in a tiger kidnapping. Gardaí suspect that a well-known serious criminal from Dublin’s north inner city orchestrated the raid.