当地时间7月31日，巴拉圭首都机场发生一起罕见抢劫案，一名中国公民装有100多万美元现金的手提箱，被5名枪手当着警察的面抢走。7 f0 G' d( |9 C% z4 h' F0 @
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最新消息称，这起抢劫案发生在巴拉圭首都的一个机场的候机大厅，而且就发生在警察的眼皮下。6 M1 d' i9 ]1 f: b
9 v5 A4 M5 a* P, t4 d机场警方负责人对媒体表示，当时执勤的警察都对眼前发生这一幕“惊呆了”，5名持枪抢匪抢走了一名中国公民的手提箱，并带着这个“战利品”扬长而去。 3 v: Y: t1 x% [" G0 z% c# k ! W0 E E U1 {7 T+ q! {1 z& m$ f) {机场警方负责人萨纳布里亚(Julian Sanabria)说：“他们(抢匪)手持自动步枪，走向一名中国乘客，然后抢走一个装有100多万美元现金的手提箱。我们警察都很惊讶，但由于当时还有150多名乘客等在候机厅，我们无法向他们开火。” ! M, E& s I2 L# U# k* l1 w7 M - B# s8 Y0 ?( b# s) Q' b) o美联社报导说，据巴拉圭机场警方确认，这位被抢的中国人名叫Don Jon Kin，此人在机场设有一个外汇兑换服务台，他也是巴拉圭居民。5 a$ D3 T a' ^# Y
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机场警方说，抢劫案件发生时，Don Jon Kin正准备把两个装有现金的手提箱送到乌拉圭的蒙得维的亚(Montevideo)，将其存在一家银行。警方称，很明显这是一次合法的转款。1 d2 a- T0 J" h
2 _& z" M( H9 p B3 ?# d8 e) d$ z: p但根据巴拉圭方面的规定，携带巨额现金进入这个国家，必须进行申报。可此案的受害者却从未这样做。 / f" g' b2 U, K8 j% g - l" Q# r2 Q( L" e7 a3 u5 ^6 o据悉，在5名抢匪抢劫过程中，由于行动匆忙，他们没有抢走另一个装有美元现金的手提包。据报导，这个手提包已被警方调查人员扣留。有关方面没有透露这个手提包内装有多少美元现金。2 m9 d1 k9 w+ D1 O
# S% ]* M( m3 `Man out $1 million in Paraguay airport heist 4 J3 R: v9 R1 H0 z: O- OFive alleged robbers with automatic weapons rob Chinese citizen of case6 L. p' ~# ]0 }. t
1 |. X6 a: z" C) ^- l- k9 wJuly 31, 2007 1 c* \% X# V- ~+ h/ z6 OASUNCION, Paraguay - Gunmen robbed a Chinese citizen of $1 million on Tuesday during a brazen holdup inside an airport in the Paraguayan capital. 1 n" v- Z; Z B- T+ Q ( l" _' E3 V2 Q, B" g8 `The heist in an airport boarding area caught police by surprise, and five assailants got away with the booty, police officer Julian Sanabria told reporters.% O Z& J& G4 p. p1 L7 ?/ |
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“With automatic weapons in hand, they went up to the Chinese passenger and took away the case with a million dollars,” Sanabria said. “We police were all surprised, and also we could not fire because there were 150 passengers waiting in the boarding area at that moment.”6 D$ S/ y c! y, _) h
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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. + L' \. X2 w4 R& l 0 A. y' z* c# ^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./ a- B8 ~+ f! |" l- J/ R( A
. ?! A. N- c5 g2 t6 w( a+ E' nIn 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.
