Royal Bank accuses two former Vancouver employees of stealing over $200,000

Two former employees assisted an alleged accomplice in taking $180,000 CAD and $20,000 USD from a Royal Bank vault in Vancouver.

According to a statement made by Royal Bank, the alleged robberies took place on December 30, 2013 and January 31, 2014.

The two former employees worked at the branch during those periods and also lived as roommates.

The pair allegedly copied a key to the vault and then exchanged vault combinations. They then assisted the alleged accomplice to set up a safety deposit box in the bank, which was located very close to the vault.

On January 31, the bank claims that the alleged accomplice walked into the bank disguised. One of the accused employees then led the accomplice to the vault area, where they pretended to access the safety deposit box, but instead stole the money from the vault.

Royal Bank realized that the pair of employees were responsible for the robberies and they were both fired in March after finding $11,000 in a safety deposit box belonging to the alleged accomplice at another bank.

In personal defence documents filed with the court, the alleged accomplice states that he had no outside relationship with the accused employees, except as a customer at the branch.

One of the accused said that he did not copy the vault key because he never had the opportunity to do so. He also claimed that other employees knew the vault combinations.

The other has not made any response to the allegations, and no charges have been laid by the Vancouver Police Department at this time.

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