The Criminal Investigation Department in the Damascus countryside has successfully recovered a sum of money that was stolen from a Syrian bank during the night of the regime’s collapse on August 12 of the previous year.
According to the official Syrian news channel, the investigative team seized a quantity of weapons and cash in the town of Maidani, which is part of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, based on reliable information indicating the presence of suspicious materials at a specific location.
The channel released images depicting weapons, pharmaceuticals, printers, and large amounts of Syrian currency bundles, although the exact recovered amount has not been disclosed. The Criminal Investigation Department announced that its security patrols went to the suspicious site in Maidani following reports of “a quantity of weapons and money stolen from a bank during the liberation,” but did not specify which bank was targeted.
After a thorough inspection of the site, authorities found 10 bags filled with Syrian currency, three printers, a telephone wire, a sniper rifle along with 10 ammunition magazines, a Russian rifle and ammunition, military digging tools, a military pouch, a box of Cefixime medication, and 10 cash registers.
On the first day of the regime’s fall, the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, Issam Hazimeh, stated that the bank faced incidents of theft due to the chaos and security breakdown occurring that day, and that following the arrival of armed factions in Damascus, part of the stolen funds was recovered.