Investigators have recovered a large sum of cash which was stolen from the proprietor of the R Maye Hardware Store at Providence , East Bank Demerara on Sunday by bandits.

At the same time investigators are continuing to grill the nephew of the proprietor of the store , who reportedly confessed to planning the multi-million dollar robbery along with several others ,including a taxi driver.

Reports are that the men hired a car which was used as the getaway vehicle following the robbery on Sunday. The prime suspect led investigators to a location on the East Coast of Demarara where a large sum of cash was found stashed in  a pit-latrine (out-house toilet).

A salesgirl attached to the store , told the  Guyana Chronicle reported on Monday that two armed men , who she saw earlier putting on masks, entered her apartment within the store’s compound and demanded the keys for the upper flat of the building where they insisted the businessman’s money was kept.

The men ventured upstairs in the building and ransacked the premises and carted off millions of dollars which was stashed there by the proprietor of the business.

The woman said when the men took her back down to her apartment , where she saw the company’s security guard was also tied-up . She said the men threatened to shoot her and the guard but she begged for her life. The men also robbed her of her  Samsung mobile phone, some cash and her gold earring.

Police subsequently arrested the nephew of the businessman. Reports are that the man knew about the operations of the business and he was recently fired by his uncle in relation to another robbery which took place at the store  prior to Saturday night’s ordeal.