SLEUTHS in Berbice are investigating a daring midday multimillion-dollar robbery committed on a businessman, who was responding to a financial deal made over a telephone call.
According to information reaching Guyana Chronicle, just after 11:00hrs, on Thursday, the businessman received a call on his mobile phone when the voice, with a feminine tone, asked to purchase US$25,000, the equivalent of G$5M in local currency.

Believing it was a customer, the Cambio dealer left his premises and proceeded as directed, along Strand Public Road, in the vicinity of the Penguin Hotel, where a heavily tinted car stopped alongside him.
During his short journey to the location, he remained on his mobile phone, and in contact with ‘the customer’, who urged him to join the car.

But as he was about to enter the vehicle, he observed that there was no female inside and becoming afraid, as he sensed that it was not a genuine deal.
He tried to step back but two males in the back seat pulled him in the vehicle and punched him about the body before relieving him of the cash. He was then pushed out of the car which drove away.

The injured man reported the incident to the Central Police Station before going to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was seen and treated by a medical doctor.
Detectives are reviewing CCTV cameras within the vicinity of the robbery as police continue their investigation.