Bank worker casually walks out of branch carrying boxes filled with stolen cash

A slope treasurer and his woman planned to fly to Uruguay aft stealing astir $259,000 from his job, authorities successful the southeastern Brazilian authorities of Espirito Santo person revealed.

Eduardo Oliveira, 43, was accompanied by his wife, Paloma Tolentino, 29, and was seen carrying a container containing the wealth aft helium had concluded his November 14 displacement astatine a Banco bash Brasil subdivision successful the municipality of Vitoria, surveillance video showed.

Oliveira, who had been employed by the slope for 12 years, could beryllium seen approaching a information defender successful the lobby and greeting him earlier helium made his mode to the exit.

Investigators discovered that Oliveira and Tolentino plotted the heist successful beforehand and were capable to alteration the slope harmless box's password.

The mates loaded up each of their belongings and moved into a caller location successful Vitória connected Saturday, and utilized immoderate of the currency to wage down immoderate of their idiosyncratic debts.

On Monday, Tolentino visited a car dealership and attempted to purchased a Jeep Renegade with $12,700 successful cash, but was told by a salesperson that they could not process the cash-only transaction. 

She told the idiosyncratic that she had wealth astatine a slope subdivision and visited the fiscal institution, where Oliveira was already waiting for them.

As portion of the plot, Tolentino and Oliveira made judge that they did not cognize each successful bid different to process the car purchase.

The slope became suspicious erstwhile Oliveira did not amusement up to enactment Monday and did not reply immoderate of their telephone calls.

Another manager astatine the subdivision notified the constabulary of the robbery aft noticing that wealth was missing from the harmless deposit box.

Authorities caught a interruption successful the probe erstwhile they recovered that Tolentino had deposited $12,700 successful an relationship that was utilized for the acquisition of a brand-new Jeep Renegade connected Monday afternoon.

Investigators visited the car dealership and were capable to get the vehicle's licence plates. 

Oliveira and his woman loaded their canine and feline into the SUV and drove astir 1,367 miles to Santa Cruz, a metropolis successful the confederate authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul.

They were conscionable 153 miles from the borderline with Uruguay erstwhile they were intercepted by the Federal Highway Police.

Footage filmed by the constabulary showed a bull searching the vehicle's trunk and removing a suitcase loaded with 70,700 euros, $41,490 and $131,596 successful Brazilian currency.

'The find and expertise of the constabulary successful identifying that this wealth was utilized to bargain a car and, rapidly realizing that this car was transferred to Eduardo's name, helped a batch successful arresting them and recovering the money,' said constabulary serviceman Gabriel Monteiro, who oversees the Specialized Criminal Investigations Department and of the Specialized Bank Robbery Unit. 

 Authorities were capable to instrumentality each of the wealth to the slope and the conveyance to the car dealership. 

They besides recovered astir $3,400 from Oliveira's erstwhile wife, who said that the wealth was portion of a divorcement settlement. 

'At the constabulary station, helium reserved the close to stay silent, but with each this grounds determination is nary uncertainty that helium wanted to fly with the money,' Monteiro said. 

'This caused immoderate surprise, arsenic helium was an idiosyncratic who held a high-ranking presumption astatine the bank, with a bully salary.'