The 600 liters of “Green gold” stolen in the Beja Food Bank were “dispatched” through receivers in the areas of Montijo and Portimão. One of the theft suspects had only 9 liters in your housing.
PSP identified four people, aged 20 and 62 year old, on suspicion of the practice of theft and receiving crimes 600 liters of olive oil, No value of five thousand euros, from the food bank warehouse against Beja's hunger (BAB), occurred in the past day 20 January.
According to the statement of the PSP District Command, Criminal investigation squad teams “searched for one of the suspects, having seized carboys of olive oil for consumption â€and the remaining sold in south of the Tagus. When searching, PSP agents found 9 liters of olive oil, part still in the original carboys and another part concealed in water carboys.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), The suspects are four people from the same family, two were directly involved in theft and the other two in receiving and selling to third parties, that occurred in the Montijo and Portimão area.
On the facebook page, The Food Bank responsible, Tadeu de Freitas, left a message: “To make it clear, And in response to those who quickly accused in a totally light way, PSP with its excellent research work and in a record time identified the individuals who made the theft at the Beja Food Bank. One thanks to PSP for the excellent work”, justified.
Remember, As the LN revealed on the day, a few minutes after the PSP criminal investigation teams arrived at the warehouse, The theft occurred at dawn 20 January, having the authors of theft broken into the gate of the rear of space, that does not yet have an alarm system installed, and took all the bottles of 2 and 3 liters of “Ouro Verdeâ€, total no 600 l, which had been offered to BAB by companies in the municipality linked to the olive growing sector.
BAC's warehouse is located at Rua da Lavoura, a parallel artery and close to the railway station, in Beja, Since the rear of space gives to the railway lines, without any type of lighting, with several houses adjacent to the same. On the theft date, The warehouse still had no alarm, no video surveillance chambers installed, since it belongs to the intercity community of Baixo Alentejo (CIMB), that was provided in a lending to the food bank and was being occupied since the end of last year.
A PSP, will continue to make steps to identify other people involved, in particular the receivers of the olive oil that was sold in both locations outside the Beja area.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
