A cash transport worker stole EUR 135,000 during the Christmas break in a copycat raid inspired by a EUR 1 million heist at the same firm, it has emerged.
The worker – not named by local police – took advantage of the holiday to take cash taken from the firm’s Stuttgart strongroom, according to local media.
Police say the money was stolen on Christmas Eve and not discovered for four days.
When they raided his home there was no trace of him all the money, but the 27-year- old has since handed himself in and been released on bail.
The money, however, is still missing.
His copycat raid is believed to have been inspired by an earlier theft where OnlyFans model Mirnesa S. walked off with EUR 1 million nearly three months ago.
Pictures of the blonde bandit have been all over social media for weeks as police search for her and the money.
Her boyfriend, Muhamed-Mujo Omanovic has also been taunting police by posting pictures of her glamorous lifestyle.
Because of strict privacy laws in Germany, police had to waste weeks getting a court order to release CCTV pictures of her carrying out the raid.
They still cannot, however, fully name her or even the firm she stole from and there is still no trace of the 42-year-old suspect.
One picture apparently shows the striking-looking platinum blonde in the strongroom of the cash company showing off a distinctive tattoo on her forearm.
Another shows her striding through what looks like a car park carrying what looks to be a heavy backpack.
When quizzed, police refused to give details and would only say a woman had used her job as a telephone operator to carry out the theft.
Since she vanished, local media has been full of new revelations about her life, including the fact that she was abandoned as a child after being born in Bosnia-Herzegovina and had been adopted.
Her former boyfriend has reportedly also been adding to the images of them seen together, including a previously unseen reportedly Boxing Day video showing her partying, although it is not clear when it was filmed.
Another video reportedly showed her in a plane flying over Bosnia-Herzegovina, with online users wondering if that was the place that she fled to after the heist.
Surprisingly, many of the comments are full of praise, with one commentator typical of most when writing: “Hats off, you have to have a plan, and to implement that plan you have to have the balls. And this woman definitely has it!”
Another wrote: “Run girl, run” and a third noted: “In the Balkans she will acquire a new identity and change her face and she will lead a life like a queen.”
