This brings to five the number of persons who have so far been charged in ongoing investigations into the heist of the money from the vehicle on Thursday, May 29.

Two women also implicated in the heist have also been charged.

The three SECURICOR guards responsible for the safe transport of the money were charged yesterday, and the two women on Monday.

The police informed the Guyana Chronicle that just over $12M has been recovered since the daring robbery but no weapons was recovered. The guards were armed with a shot gun and two pistols.

The guards charged were Keith Caesar of 196 Kuru Kuru, Linden Soesdyke Highway, Mark Mc Donald of 43 Melanie Damishana Squatting Area and Neville Holder of 43 Norton Street, Lodge.

The trio appeared before magistrate Brassington Reynolds at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court. They were refused bail and will re appear tomorrow.

Nazreen Hack and Yvette Dodson, the two women arrested during the probe, were also remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Monday.

The women were charged with receiving stolen money and were not required to plea to the indictable charge.

Yvette Dodson is accused of receiving $12.8M of the stolen money, which was recovered from her Kuru Kuru home on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, while Nazreen Hack was nabbed after the police unearthed $4M in a pillowcase in her house at Lamaha Street.

The two women are to re appear in Court on June 13.

The guards reported to the Police that two men posing as traffic police intercepted the vehicle and seven others with guns forced them to hand over the money.

The cash was at the time being transported from the New Amsterdam branch of Scotia Bank to the main branch in Georgetown.

According to reports, 14 persons have been implicated following intensive police investigations. One of them is said to be a soldier that went Absent Without Leave (AWOL) from the army earlier this year. The soldier is allegedly the mastermind behind the hold-up.

The alleged mastermind was charged, but later freed of the Anna Regina bank robbery on the Essequibo Coast over four years ago.