Air Peace says passenger who allegedly stole N1m on board airline nabbed

• Money recovered by Police, owner of the money was unwilling to follow up.

Air Peace has said a passenger on board one of its flights who allegedly stole N1 million from another passenger’s bag has been caught.

The spokesperson for the airline, Stanley Olisa, in a statement on Wednesday, said that the incident took place on board the Abuja-PHC flight P47192 on July 27.

Olisa said the suspect stole the amount contained in a brown envelope but was caught by the owner of the money with the intervention of the airline’s staff.

He clarified that during the flight, the suspect took another passenger’s computer bag from the overhead cabin.

“He, thereafter, took the brown envelope containing the money, put the computer bag in another luggage compartment, and moved to an empty seat at the back of the aircraft,” he said.

Olisa revealed that the suspect was one of the first few to disembark despite the announcement of a proper disembarkation sequence by the crew.

He stated further that the suspect was eventually caught and the money retrieved from him, with different currencies in different denominations found on him.

Olisa also revealed that the suspect was handed over to the security operatives of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria for onward transfer to the police, for further investigations.

According to the spokesperson for the airline, the police later confirmed to have released him on bail, but that the chance of prosecution was slim as the owner of the money was unwilling to follow up.