Pair quizzed in relation to €39m bank raid
Two people were arrested today in connection with the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman had been detained for questioning over the robbery last December, which the IRA has been accused of carrying out.
Earlier this month, three people were charged in connection with the robbery but not actually carrying out the raid.
The cash was stolen from the headquarters of the bank at Donegall Square in an audacious raid five days before Christmas.
A small amount of money seized by police across the border in Cork is believed to have come from the robbers’ haul, but the bulk was never recovered.
The Northern Bank was forced to issue redesigned bank notes in a bid to make the stolen money worthless.
